Quotes from "The Education Problem," (chapter) 1905, first set

      "The changes in twenty-five years have been marvelous. As long ago as that, it was no crime for a white man to kill an Indian. Now, many red men are citizens of the United States, there are several hundred schools among them, they are engaged in various trades and industries, and one is a professor in a white man's college.

      Then, there were sixty-one agencies, under political control; now there are less than twenty, mostly under Civil Service rule, and where Indians are civilized, agencies are abolished." -- Mrs. Quinton, of the Indian Rights Association.

      "The Indian's Friend is responsible for the statement that a small tribe in the Indian Territory, the Quapaws, found themselves in danger through the illiteracy of the whites among them. To obviate this they established (in 1902) a public school system, maintaining schools for six months, attended by thirty-two Indians and two hundred whites.

      The Quapaws paid $1,000 towards the expenses. The whites were expected to pay tax of one cent an acre on lands leased from the Indians and one dollar per annum from each laborer. They failed to do this, and as the Indians could not meet the expense alone the schools were closed. Comment is unnecessary."

      "The highest-salaried woman in the government service is Miss Estelle Reel, whose headquarters are at Washington, but who spends part of each year in the field as general superintendent of Indian schools, often being obligated to take long horseback rides through wild regions. Miss Reel believes in industrial training and visits Indian homes, explaining to the people what kinds of native work will command the best prices."  .   .   .   .   "Indian workers [led by Miss Reel] feel that henceforth the object should be to prepare as speedily as possible to withdraw all government paternalism and to give the Indian the American citizen's right to 'sink or swim, survive or perish,' leaving the responsibility with him.''

      "A Winnebago girl who, after the usual schooling, studied art a Smith College and at the Drexel Institute, earning her tuition by her own exertions, and then opened a studio in New York, where she has won a honorable place in the ranks of magazine illustrators and writers, is a convincing refutation of the pessimistic charge of worthlessness."

      "The Pawnees are now United States citizens with all the rights of citizens, and if they were allowed by the government to exercise these rights, that is, to have the care of their own affairs, send their children to the common schools, be amenable to law for their conduct, like other citizens, they would cease to be thought of as Indians, and would command respect as men." --Woman's Home Missions.