Friday, February 6, 2015

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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