[7] Two of these teachers are natives.
Statement showing the amount and disposition of the funds provided by treaties for purposes of education.
| Tribes. | Date of treaty. | Amount. | Disposition of the funds. |
| Miamies, Pottawatamies, Do. Do. Winnebagoes, Chippewas, Chippewas, Menomonies, &c. Menomonies, Sacs, Foxes, & others, Kickapoes, Shawanees & Delawa's, Choctaws, Creeks, east, Cherokees, west, Floridas, Creeks, Quapaws, Otoes and Missourias, Pawnees, Chickasaws, | Oct. 23, 1826 Oct. 16, 1826 Sept. 20, 1828 Oct. 27, 1832 Sept. 15, 1832 Sept. 24, 1819 Aug. 11, 1827 Feb. 8, 1831 July 15, 1830 Oct. 24, 1822 Oct. 26, 1832 Sept. 27, 1830 Mar. 24, 1832 May 6, 1828 Sept. 18, 1823 Feb. 14, 1833 May 13, 1833 Sept. 21, 1833 Oct. 9, 1833 May 24, 1834 | 2,000 00 2,000 00 1,000 00 2,000 00 3,000 00 1,000 00 1,500 00 500 00 3,000 00 500 00 500 00 12,500 00 3,000 00 2,000 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 1,000 00 500 00 1,000 00 3,000 00 | Choctaw Academy. do. do. do. School, Prairie du Chien. Baptist Gen. Convention. Protestant Epis. Church. do. Choctaw Academy. School in the nation. do. do. Choctaw Academy. School in the nation. Choctaw Academy. do. Not disposed of. do. do. Choctaw Academy. |
These tables exhibit the number of teachers and pupils at the schools, of the condition of which reports have been received.
In all of them instruction is imparted in reading, writing, arithmetic, and geography. At many of them the boys are initiated in branches of the mechanic arts, and cultivate the soil. At the Tuscarora station, in New York, tuition is imparted on the plan adopted for infant schools, and with marked success. The temperance society contains eighty members, the sabbath school thirty pupils, and fifty are united to the church. The children at the Mohegan school, in Connecticut, are employed on farms cultivated by natives: others of the youth of this band enter on board the ships in the whale fishery: and, as an indication of a spirit of enterprise and industry, the wish of some to cultivate the mulberry-tree, with a view to the establishment of a silk manufactory, may be cited.
The American Board of Foreign Missions propose to print at the Union station, in the Cherokee country west of the Mississippi, books in the languages of the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, and Osages; and the Rev. Mr. M'Coy, under the auspices of the Baptist General Convention, has issued proposals for publishing a semi-monthly periodical at the Shawanee mission, three hundred miles west of St. Louis. Several books have been printed at this press in the languages of the different tribes. The object of Mr. M'Coy and his associates is to furnish historical sketches of past, and notices of present occurrences, including the transactions of the general government and of societies.
The Choctaw academy, in Kentucky, contains one hundred and fifty-six pupils; this number will be increased by fifteen Chickasaws, as the chiefs of that tribe have recently requested their education money might be expended at this institution. The inspectors, in their last report, represent the academy to be in a highly prosperous condition; the buildings erected to be upon a plan convenient and economical; the provision made for the comfort and health of the scholars to be liberal; and the care taken to promote their moral and intellectual advancement kind and parental. The buildings and school apparatus are valued at eight thousand dollars. The cost of winter clothing for each scholar is estimated at forty-six dollars and twenty-two cents, of the summer clothing at thirty-one dollars and eighty-six cents. This academy, conducted judiciously, will, at no distant day, send forth scholars competent to teach others, and thus accomplish the object of Congress, indicated by its legislation at the last session.
Upon the recommendation of two members of Congress, aid has been rendered to Morris B. Pierce, a Seneca, who is now at Thetford academy, Vermont, fitting himself to enter Dartmouth college, in New Hampshire.