The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.94
Instead of serving the bread upon plates on the
table, two small pieces of bread were placed on each pupil’s plate. Some of the
tableware, especially the pitchers were unsightly and insanitary, old chipped,
cracked porcelain ware, although there were plenty of dishes in the commissary
at the agency. The baker did not have wood to heat the ovens and the seamstress
did not have thread, buttons, or needles although the agency warehouse was well
supplied with same. The nice herd of Holsteins
has been neglected and the Indian boys permitted to milk and care for same
without any supervision, consequently these cows are about dried up and ruined.
The cows supplied about eight quarts a day of milk with about one half of this
supply going to Superintendent McFatridge’s table. There were only three hogs
at the school, although the refuse from the table would care for about fifteen
or twenty very readily, and we consider that no better investment could be made
around a plant like this than raising sufficient hogs to consume the refuse
from the table. The milk was not sufficient to supply the wants of the children
to any degree. The kitchen and bakery were kept clean and sanitary. The one
story brick commissary was untidy and unclean and nothing in order in same. Meat
choppings were all over the floor, and although the commissary is a good one,
and sufficient to accommodate the supplies, there were practically no school
supplies there, although in the commissary at the agency there were plenty of
shoes, overshoes, underwear, gloves, mittens, caps, hoods, muslin toweling,
dress goods, handkerchiefs, and almost all of the articles which were so badly
needed at the school.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.94
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