§ 4101. Duties of commissioner regarding Indian children. 1. The commissioner of education shall establish schools in such places and maintain such courses of instruction therein for the education of the Indian children of the state as he or she shall deem necessary. He or she shall have general supervision of such education and shall […]
§ 4102. Rights of Indians and of state shall be guarded. Any contract which may be entered into with Indians for the use or occupancy of any land for school grounds, sites or buildings, shall provide proper protection for the title of the Indians to their lands, and shall reserve to the state the right […]
§ 4103. Indian children not entitled to free tuition in public schools. Indian children residing on a reservation are not entitled to free tuition in districts outside the reservation but may be received into the schools of such districts on the approval of the trustees thereof and the commissioner of education.
§ 4104. Employment of teachers, salaries, et cetera. 1. The commissioner of education shall employ all necessary teachers, attendance officers and other assistants and employees, and fix their salaries within the amount of the appropriations made therefor, as shall be necessary for the proper enforcement of the statutes relating to Indian education. 2. The personnel […]
§ 4105. Required attendance upon instruction. 1. Every Indian child between six and sixteen years of age, in proper physical and mental condition to attend school, shall regularly attend upon instruction at a school in which at least the common school branches of reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, English grammar and geography are taught in English, […]
§ 4106. Duties of persons in parental relation to Indian children. Any person in parental relation to an Indian child between six and sixteen years of age in proper physical and mental condition to attend school, shall cause such child to attend upon instruction as provided in this article.
§ 4107. Penalty for failure to send children to school. A violation of section forty-one hundred six shall be a misdemeanor, punishable for the first offense by a fine not exceeding five dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding ten days, and for each subsequent offense, by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or by imprisonment […]
§ 4108. Persons employing Indian children unlawfully to be fined. A person, firm, association or corporation shall not employ any Indian child residing on any Indian reservation between six and fourteen years of age, in any business or service whatever during any part of the term during which the school in the community or district […]
§ 4109. Teachers’ record of attendance. An accurate record of attendance of all Indian children between six and sixteen years of age shall be kept by the teacher of every Indian school, showing each day, by the year, month, day of the month and day of the week, such attendance, and the number of hours […]
§ 4110. Attendance officers. 1. The principal teacher of the Indian schools on each reservation shall supervise the enforcement of this article within said reservation and shall appoint, subject to the approval of the commissioner of education, and remove at pleasure such number of attendance officers as the commissioner of education shall deem necessary, whose […]
§ 4111. Arrest of truants. Any attendance officer may arrest without warrant anywhere within the state any Indian child between six and sixteen years of age, found away from his home and who is then a truant from instruction upon which he is lawfully required to attend within the districts of which such attendance officer […]
§ 4112. Commissioner of education to contract for keeping of truants. The commissioner of education may contract with any city or district having a school for delinquents, for the confinement, maintenance and instruction therein of any child who shall be committed to such school as a truant by any magistrate before whom such child shall […]
§ 4113. Census. The commissioner of education shall cause to be taken a complete annual census of the Indian children between birth and eighteen years of age on any reservation; such census shall be taken between the first day of May and the last day of August and shall include all such facts and information […]
§ 4114. Payment of services herein required. Each of the attendance officers herein provided for shall receive such sum per day as shall be fixed by the commissioner of education for each day necessarily employed in enforcing this article; and each person employed in taking and tabulating the census of the residents of said reservations, […]
§ 4115. Apportionment. 1. If the education of Indian children of a reservation is being provided pursuant to the provisions of subdivision two of section forty-one hundred one of this article, such Indian children in attendance on the date construction is commenced shall be included in the computation of a building quota pursuant to subdivision […]
§ 4116. Co-operation of Indians shall be sought. In the discharge of the duties imposed by this article, the said commissioner shall endeavor to secure the co-operation of all the several bands of Indians, and for this purpose, shall visit, by himself or his authorized representative, all the reservations where they reside, lay the matter […]
§ 4117. Payment of cost of education of physically handicapped Indian children. Any claims for providing home-teaching, transportation, scholarships in non-residence schools, tuition and maintenance for physically handicapped children which are, ultimately or in the first instance, made a charge against a county or a city having a special children’s court act, pursuant to the […]
§ 4118. Attendance at post-secondary institutions by Native American students. 1. The education department shall select students for attendance at post-secondary institutions from the several Indian tribes located within this state. In making such selection, due regard shall be had to a just participation in the privileges of this section by each of such several […]
§ 4119. School district may contract to educate Indian children. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the trustee, trustees or board of education of any school district shall have power to contract with the commissioner of education for the instruction of Indian children for a period of ten years. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, […]
