34 THE PIMA INDIANS [eth. ann. 26 



thereafter resided at that place. The present commodious dwelling 

 was erected in 1883. Following is a list of the later agents, with the 

 dates of their appointment: 



Capt. F. E. Grossman, 1869. 



J. H. Stout, 1871-1875, 1877-78. 



Charles Hudson, 1876. 



A. B. Ludlam, 1879. 



E. B. Townsend, 1881. 



R. G. Wheeler, 1881. 



A. H. Jackson, 1882. 



R. G. \\Tieeler, 1885. 

 C. M. Johnson, 1888. 

 C. W. Crouse, 1889. 

 J. R. Young, 1893. 

 Henry J. Cleveland, 1897. 

 Elwood Hadley, 1898. 

 J. B. Ale.\ander, 1902. 



SCHOOLS 



The first school (pi. v, i) among the Pimas was opened by Rev. 

 C. H. Cook, in the employ of the Government, February 18, 1871, in 

 an adobe building about 2 miles west of the present agency of 

 Sacaton. This day school had a good attendance from the first, and 

 much of the ])resent beneficial influence of the missionary may be 

 ascribed to the connnand over the children which he obtained during 

 the seven yea,TS tliat he occupied the position of teacher. The change 

 to a boarding school located at the agency was made in 1881, and a 

 Mr Armstrong was the first superintendent. The school l)uildings 

 were destroyed by fire in November, 1888, and the mission church 

 was occupied during the remainder of that year. The capacity of the 

 school is now 225, though during our stay at Sacaton more than 300 

 were crowded in. Two and three children were apportioned to sleep 

 in narrow single beds and even in the hospital the beds were over- 

 crowded. For years the accommodations have been inadequate to 

 receive all the children that desired education. Day schools at Gila 

 Crossing and Salt River take care of a few, and three or four new build- 

 ings for day schools have been erected at Blackwater, Lehi, Mari- 

 copa, and Casa Blanca. 



Annals 



chkonological records 



Three chronological records have thus far been preserved from 

 among the many that are supposed to have existed among the 

 American tribes. The first of these to be published was the Walum 

 01am of the Delawares, the definitive edition of which was published 

 by D. G. Brinton." In 1877 Col. Garrick Mallery brought to light 

 the "Lone-dog winter count" of the Sioux and subsequently secured 

 several other records from the same tribe. '' Recently James Mooney 



tt The Lenape and their Ij(!g(mds, Brinton's Library of Aboriginal .Vinerican Literature, V, 1885. 

 I>A Calendar ot the Dakota Nation, Bulletin U. S. Geol. Surv., ni, no. 1; also Fourth and Tenth 

 Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



