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of their partially awakened but untrained minds to seek activity and relief in the easily available excitement of gambling, the dance, or other [[disc-patims?]]. Legitimate business associations do not  exist upon a reservation, these are only found in a community where the people are free to develop the resources of their country and to employ their mental energies in some thing more than merely getting food & raiment
Happily a change is slowly approaching the reservations. Since legislation has opened the way to citizenship & individual ownership in tribal lands, henceforth the Indian's future will depend upon his personal efforts. That these may be effective & bring prosperity to the people and the country wherein the tribes reside, education is absolutely indispensable.

The Indian requires for the pioneer work & the competition which lies immediately before him an equipment beyond that afforded by primary schooling. The advanced conditions of our own race and time are factors in the life struggle now upon him. With us today a man can no longer plod and succeed. Machining in intelligent hands enables one to far outstrip unaided efforts, and these mechanical

Transcription Notes:
disc-patims : perhaps dissipations ?