CHAPTER X.

REPORT ON EDUCATION IN ALASKA AND THE INTRO

DUCTION OF REINDEER.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

BUREAU OF EDUCATION, ALASKA DIVISION,

Washington, D. C., June 30, 1906.

SIR: I have the honor to submit my twenty-first annual report as United States general agent of education in Alaska for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906.

The Fifty-eighth Congress in its second session passed an act "To provide for the construction and maintenance of roads, the establishment and maintenance of schools, and the care and support of insane persons in the district of Alaska, and for other purposes," approved January 27, 1905, by the provisions of which the governor of Alaska, as ex officio superintendent of education, was placed in charge of schools for white children and children of mixed blood who lead a civilized life throughout Alaska.

In accordance with this law the following schools for white children and half breeds in Alaska, which had been in charge of the Bureau of Education, passed from under its control at the close of the fiscal year June 30, 1905: Afognak, Chignik, Ellamar, Haines, Hope, Kenai, Kodiak, Seldovia, Seward, Sitka (for white children), Teller City, Unalaska, Unga, and Wood Island.

Section VII of the act mentioned above requires that the education of the Eskimos and Indians in the district of Alaska shall remain under the direction and control of the Secretary of the Interior, and that schools for the Eskimos and Indians of Alaska shall be provided for by an annual appropriation.

In accordance with this legislation Congress appropriated $50,000 to enable the Secretary of the Interior to maintain schools for the natives of Alaska during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1906.

With this sum the Bureau of Education has conducted during the year 35 public schools, with 41 teachers and an enrollment of 2,136, and an average attendance of 981. These schools are distributed throughout Alaska as follows: In southeast Alaska, 14 schools, with an enrollment of 697; in western Alaska, 4 schools, with an enrollment of 206; in northern Alaska, 17 schools, with an enrollment of 1,233. The following table shows in detail the location and enrollment of the United States public schools in Alaska from the establishment of the Alaska school service in 1885 to 1906, inclusive, together with the average daily attendance for the last year of that period.

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