A few weeks after the arrival of the party at Hampton Institute, General Armstrong was so favorably impressed by the conduct and progress of the 17 he had undertaken, that he was willing to increase the number by adding 50 more, and including girls. Mr. Schurz and Mr. McCrary, then Secretaries of the Interior and War Departments, accepted the proposition, and I was sent, in the fall of 1878, to Dakota, and brought away 49 children from six different agencies of the Sioux, Gros Ventre, Mandan and Arickeree tribes. These, together with the former Florida prisoners, were placed under training in all the varied systems of literary and industrial pursuits. Hampton Institute provides liberally for its colored students, and side by side with those colored pupils the Indian boys and girls, in perfect harmony with the new life, demonstrated their capacity to hold their own in improving the best of chances. It was very much desired by the friends of this new movement, and particularly General Armstrong, that I should remain with it, and a clause was introduced in the army appropriation bill, which passed Congress in the spring of 1879, for the detail of one officer, not above the rank of captain, for duty with reference to Indian education. It was a plan which I had urged for several years that to get the best results in our educational work among Indian children as many as possible should be removed from reservation and tribal influences and placed in the atmosphere of civilized life, and to this end I had urged the use of vacant military posts and barracks as furnishing, without much cost in changing and improving buildings, places to make a beginning, and I proposed to the Interior and War Departments that I would undertake the education of 250 or 300 children at the old military buildings at Carlisle. This proposition was accepted, and after many preliminaries I was sent in September, 1879, to the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agencies in Dakota and brought away 84 children, and immediately after went to the Indian Territory and from the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Pawnee and other tribes brought 52 more. To these were added 11 from the Hampton Institute of the young men who had been with me in Florida. The school was opened on the first of November with 147 students. To these were added from time to time children from various Western tribes, and at the end of July, 1880, we numbered 239 children, about one-third of whom were girls. At the end of the second year, October, 1881, we had increased to 295. At the present writing we number 379—132 girls and 247 boys. From the beginning our principle has been to place the most emphasis on industrial training, next English speaking and then literary training. To accomplish the first we very early in the work established shops for mechanical instruction in carpentry, blacksmithing, wagon-making, harness-making, tailoring, tinsmithing, shoemaking, printing, baking and on our farm of 115 acres gave some scope for