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opposite views as wishing to preserve the In- 

 dians only as national bric-a-brac. This is 

 not so. We believe in fitting him for citizen- 

 ship as rapidly as possible. But where he 

 cannot be pushed ahead rapidly we believe in 

 making progress slowly, and in all cases where it 

 is possible we hope to keep for him and for us 

 w^hat was best in his old culture. As eminently 

 practical men as Mr. Frissell, the head of Hamp- 

 ton Institute (an educational model for white, 

 red, and black men alike), and Mr. Valentine, 

 the late commissioner of Indian affairs, have 

 agreed w^ith Miss Curtis in drawing up a scheme 

 for the payment from private sources of a num- 

 ber of high-grade, specially fitted educational 

 experts, whose duty it should be to correlate 

 all the agencies, public and private, that are 

 working for Indian education, and also to make 

 this education, not a mechanical impress from 

 without, but a drawing out of the qualities that 

 are within. The Indians themselves must be 

 used in such education; many of their old men 

 can speak as sincerely, as fervently, and as 

 eloquently of duty as any white teacher, and 

 these old men are the very teachers best fitted 

 to perpetuate the Indian poetry and music. 

 The effort should be to develop the existing art 

 — whether in silver-making, pottery-making. 



