LXXVIII    REPORT OF INDIAN      SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. 
Stockbridge Indians," who had faithfully adhered to the United States

and assisted them   with their warriors" during the Revolution. This

treaty provided that the United States should employ one or two persons 
to manage and keep in repair certain mills which were to be built for 
the Indians, and "1to instruct some young men of the three nations in

the arts of the miller and sawer." 
THE SECOND INDIAN TREATY 
in which the education of Indians was referred to was made with 
the Kaskaskia tribe of Illinois Indians, at Vincennes, in the Indiana 
Territory, on August 13, 1803. 
This treaty provided that- 
Whereas the greater part of the said tribe had been baptised and received
into the 
Catholic Church, to which they are much attached, the United States will
give annu- 
ally for seven years $100 towards the support of a priest of that religion
who will 
engage to perform for said tribe the duties of his office, and also to instruct
as many 
of their children 'as possible in the rudiments of literature. 
THE FIRST CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR INDIAN EDUCATION- 
AL PURPOSES. 
The treaty-making power of the United States did not, up to and for 
years after the date of this treaty with the Kaskaskias, appear to be- 
lieve that there existed any necessity for the education of the Indians 
living funder the protection and authority of the Government, and it 
was not until 1819 that any action was taken by Congress indicating 
the belief of our national legislators that the habits and arts of civiliza-

tion could be introduced among the Indians by industrial and literary 
education. But in that year action of this kind was taken by the pass- 
age of an act entitled "An act making provision for the civilization
of 
the 4ndian tribes adjoining the frontier settlements." By this act the

President was authorized to employ capable persons to instruct Indians 
in agriculture, and to teach Indian children reading, writing, and arith-

metic. To carry into effect the provisions of this act the annual sum of

$10,000 was appropriated. 
'As this was the first act of Congress making an appropriation for Indian
educa- 
tional purposes, it is given here in full: 
"An Act making provision for the civilization of the Indian tribes adjoining
the 
frontier settlemerts. 
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States8of America, 
4t Congress assentbled, That for the purposes of providing against the further
decline 
and final extinction of the Indian tribes, adjoining the frontier settlements
of the 
United States, and for introducing ainong them the habits and arts of civilization,

the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized,
in every 
case where he shall judge improvement in the habits and condition of such
Indians 
practicable, and that the mens of instruction can be introduced with their
own con-