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May 11, 1937
The Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, Mandan, Burleigh County, Morton County, North Dakota
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The U.S. Indian Bureau plans to close the Bismarck, N.D., Indian school and reopen facilities at Fort Yates and Fort Totten to provide better on-reservation education, vocational training, and care for pre-tuberculosis children, requesting $2,299,000 in funding. Testimony by Samuel M. Dodd.
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ABANDONMENT OF BISMARCK INDIAN SCHOOL PROPOSED
Bureau Plans Reopening of Institutions at Forts Yates and Totten
ASK FUNDS OF $2,000,000
Washington Believes It Is More Important to Work on Reservation
Washington, May 11.-(A.P.)-The Indian bureau proposes to re-establish the Fort Totten and Standing Rock, N. D., boarding schools for Indians and to abandon the Bismarck, N. D., school at the end of the present term.
These changes were outlined to a house appropriations subcommittee by Samuel M. Dodd, finance officer of the Indian bureau, in testimony made public Tuesday in the record of the committee's hearings on the annual interior department supply bill.
The bureau asked an appropriation of $2,299,000 for the next fiscal year for these and other boarding schools, a $299,300 increase over the current year's appropriation.
Would Fight Disease
Dodd told the committee the bureau proposed also to re-establish a preventorium school for the care of pre-tuberculosis children. For the last two years this school has been operated as a federal consolidated day school.
"The survey," said Dodd, "indicated 100 will be the minimum number for whom such facilities should be provided in 1938. Additional funds will be needed for medical care of these pupils."
Dodd said the bureau contemplates accommodations for 80 pupils at the Standing Rock school, Fort Yates, where the old boarding school plant was abandoned several years ago.
This was decided, he added, because lack of facilities in public schools compelled many Indian children to quit school and also because the Fort Yates public schools are no longer able to care for the Indian children, even upon payment of tuition by the federal government.
Want Vocational Training
The Standing Rock school will include a senior vocational agricultural program for high school pupils. It is planned to offer accommodations for 160 Indians in addition to about 100 white children, for which the local district will pay tuition to the government.
"We have asked for funds for 80 pupils on a boarding basis," Dodd said. "Some of these pupils have been in attendance at Bismarck but we propose to close the Bismarck boarding school at the end of the present term. It is believed more desirable to provide educational facilities on the home reservation where a program adapted to local needs can be developed."
For day schools the Indian bureau requested $1,252,350, an increase of $69,000.
Ask $110,250 for Wahpeton
The bureau asked for $110,250 for the Wahpeton school, of which $13,000 would be used for repairs and improvements and the remainder for maintenance. The amount is the same as the current year's appropriation.
The committee also was asked for $18,000 for the Fort Berthold hospital, an increase of $2,000; $23,000 for the Fort Totten hospital, $1,000 less than for 1937; $38,000 for the Standing Rock hospital, an increase of $8,000, and $20,000 for the Fort Totten preventorium.
Reports that the Bismarck Indian school would be closed at the end of the present term have been current here for some time and the official announcement at Washington Tuesday was no surprise. What will be done with the buildings at the local Indian school has not been disclosed.
Bureau Plans Reopening of Institutions at Forts Yates and Totten
ASK FUNDS OF $2,000,000
Washington Believes It Is More Important to Work on Reservation
Washington, May 11.-(A.P.)-The Indian bureau proposes to re-establish the Fort Totten and Standing Rock, N. D., boarding schools for Indians and to abandon the Bismarck, N. D., school at the end of the present term.
These changes were outlined to a house appropriations subcommittee by Samuel M. Dodd, finance officer of the Indian bureau, in testimony made public Tuesday in the record of the committee's hearings on the annual interior department supply bill.
The bureau asked an appropriation of $2,299,000 for the next fiscal year for these and other boarding schools, a $299,300 increase over the current year's appropriation.
Would Fight Disease
Dodd told the committee the bureau proposed also to re-establish a preventorium school for the care of pre-tuberculosis children. For the last two years this school has been operated as a federal consolidated day school.
"The survey," said Dodd, "indicated 100 will be the minimum number for whom such facilities should be provided in 1938. Additional funds will be needed for medical care of these pupils."
Dodd said the bureau contemplates accommodations for 80 pupils at the Standing Rock school, Fort Yates, where the old boarding school plant was abandoned several years ago.
This was decided, he added, because lack of facilities in public schools compelled many Indian children to quit school and also because the Fort Yates public schools are no longer able to care for the Indian children, even upon payment of tuition by the federal government.
Want Vocational Training
The Standing Rock school will include a senior vocational agricultural program for high school pupils. It is planned to offer accommodations for 160 Indians in addition to about 100 white children, for which the local district will pay tuition to the government.
"We have asked for funds for 80 pupils on a boarding basis," Dodd said. "Some of these pupils have been in attendance at Bismarck but we propose to close the Bismarck boarding school at the end of the present term. It is believed more desirable to provide educational facilities on the home reservation where a program adapted to local needs can be developed."
For day schools the Indian bureau requested $1,252,350, an increase of $69,000.
Ask $110,250 for Wahpeton
The bureau asked for $110,250 for the Wahpeton school, of which $13,000 would be used for repairs and improvements and the remainder for maintenance. The amount is the same as the current year's appropriation.
The committee also was asked for $18,000 for the Fort Berthold hospital, an increase of $2,000; $23,000 for the Fort Totten hospital, $1,000 less than for 1937; $38,000 for the Standing Rock hospital, an increase of $8,000, and $20,000 for the Fort Totten preventorium.
Reports that the Bismarck Indian school would be closed at the end of the present term have been current here for some time and the official announcement at Washington Tuesday was no surprise. What will be done with the buildings at the local Indian school has not been disclosed.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Justice
What keywords are associated?
Indian Boarding Schools
Bismarck Abandonment
Fort Yates Reopening
Reservation Education
Tuberculosis Prevention
What entities or persons were involved?
Samuel M. Dodd
Where did it happen?
Bismarck, N. D.; Fort Yates; Fort Totten; Standing Rock, N. D.; Washington
Story Details
Key Persons
Samuel M. Dodd
Location
Bismarck, N. D.; Fort Yates; Fort Totten; Standing Rock, N. D.; Washington
Event Date
May 11
Story Details
The Indian bureau proposes to abandon the Bismarck Indian school at the end of the term and re-establish boarding schools at Fort Totten and Standing Rock, N. D., to better serve Indian children on reservations with vocational training and disease prevention.