Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73
§271 Employment of instructors for Indians
Title 25 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - EDUCATION OF INDIANS › § 271
Summary
The President may hire capable, honest people to teach Indians farming that fits their situation, teach children reading, writing, and arithmetic, and do other duties he gives — only if he thinks it will help and the instruction can be given with their consent. Each year he must report to Congress what was done.
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Title 25, §271
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The President may, in every case where he shall judge improvement in the habits and condition of such Indians practicable, and that the means of instruction can be introduced with their own consent, employ capable persons of good moral character to instruct them in the mode of agriculture suited to their situation; and for teaching their children in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and performing such other duties as may be enjoined according to such instructions and rules as the President may give and prescribe for the regulation of their conduct, in the discharge of their duties. A report of the proceedings adopted in the execution of this provision shall be annually laid before Congress.
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Codification R.S. § 2071 derived from act Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 85, 3 Stat. 516.
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25 U.S.C. § 271
Title 25 — Indians
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73