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1 Carl E. Grammer, Shall Public Funds Be Expended for the Support of Sectarian Indian Schools 1 (1915)

handle is hein.amindian/shalsecs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION, 995 Drexel Building, Philadelphia, Pa., February 16, 1915. SHALL PUBLIC FUNDS BE EXPENDED FOR THE SUPPORT OF SECTARIAN INDIAN SCHOOLS? In 1869, under what is known as President Grant's Peace Policy, in the Government's treatment of Indians, the various Christian churches were invited to assist in the humanitarian effort of Christianizing and educating these wards of the Nation. Almost all the churches accepted the invitation and established missions and schools among the Indians. The Government, step by step, was led into the practice of granting financial aid from the public treasury in support of these Church schools. This un-American use of public funds should never have been inaugurated. The protests against making further grant of public money became so numerous and insistent, and the issues so acute, that Congress was called upon to determine the question whether in the future public funds should be granted for sectarian purposes. After a very full consideration of the subject, it was decided by Congress, in 1896 (29 Stat. L., 345), that further appropriations for sec- tarian Indian schools should be discontinued, in these words: * * * and it is hereby declared to be the settled policy of the Government to hereafter make no ap- propriation whatever for education in any sectarian school. Protestant Churches accepted this provision of law and discontinued the use of public funds in maintaining their schools among the Indians; and today no Protestant Church school for the education of Indians is receiving financial support from the Government. The Roman Catholic Church objected to the law for- bidding the use of Government funds in support of their In- Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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