Th the tour decades of its existence, more Indian students ran away from Carlisle than graduated. When The problem of Indian Administration by Lewis Meriam came out in 1926 it
laid bare the awful conditions found to a greater or lesser degree in all of the dozens of federal Indian boarding
schools. Overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, unqualified staffing, near-slave labor were among its findings.
Not only that, even after the Meriam Report - which did produce positive changes - recommended that Indian
students be educated at community schools near their homes, Indian boarding schools continued to grow. By the
early 1970s, some sixty thousand or more Native Americans were attending boarding schools. It was only after the
1970s that such boarding institutions were largely abandoned to finally be replaced by community-based schools.
1. Based on the excerpt, which three were conditions of the ihdian boarding schools detailed by
Lewis Meriam's report, The Problem of Indian Administration?
a. Schools used quality curriculum.
b. Schools were overcrowded.
C. Schools used students as laborers.
d. Schools were dirty.
e. Schools used highly trained teachers.
f. Schools were run without discipline.
2. What recommendation did the Meriam Report make in regard to the boarding schools?