§271 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

The President can hire qualified, trustworthy people to teach Indian communities when he believes it will improve their lives and they agree. Those teachers can show farming methods that fit the local situation, teach children to read, write, and do arithmetic, and carry out other tasks under the rules the President sets for their work. Each year the President must give Congress a report on what was done.

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.

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 2071 derived from act Mar. 3, 1819, ch. 85, 3 Stat. 516.

§271 Employment of Instructors for Indians

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Title 25, §271

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