One of the most useful features of our work has been the placing of our boys and girls in private families, principally among farmers, where they perform the same kind of labor and are subjected to the same home and labor influences that white children of their own ages receive. This has the most beneficial results. The children take on English speaking and the industries of civilized life very speedily. During vacation we place out all we can spare from our own work, and during the winter we allow a considerable number to remain and attend the public schools in the several neighborhoods, they being required to do such work mornings and evenings as they are capable of and so pay for their board and clothes. By this course we are enabled to carry a very considerable number more pupils than we are allowed appropriation for. It is plain that the real hindrance to Indian progress is found in their being kept entirely separated from the other masses of our population, and by every act of our government and every sentiment of its people, societies, missionary and others, made to feel that they are a separate people and must so remain forever. Through their education in separate schools, their home life upon prison reservations with their liberty of coming and going abridged to these reservations, with all their aspirations and ambitions so limited, there can be no healthy growth. To overcome these difficulties the Indian mind and the mind of the public as well as Congress must be educated to grant to them the enlarged privileges accorded to all other races. The boy will never learn to swim until he goes into the water, and the experiences of industrial life and civilized life through its associations and competitions will determine for the Indian and white the true status. We have had quite enough of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, etc., as Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, etc. We can end their existence among us as such separate people by a broad and generous system of English education and training, which will reach all the 50,000 children and in a very few years remove all our trouble from them as a separate people and as separate tribes among us, and instead of feeding clothing and caring for them from year to year, put them in condition to feed clothe and care for themselves. Our experiences in many individual cases in the last few years make it very evident that not only may we fit the Indian to take care of himself in his own home, but may fit him to go and come and abide in the land wherever he may choose, and so lose his identity. [Illustration: MANDAN HUT, DAKOTA.] THE HISTORY AND OUTLOOK OF THE INDIAN WORK TRANSFERRED TO THE A. M. A. PROF. ALFRED L. RIGGS.