to the surroundings of civilization,

改变为充满文明的环境
and he will grow to possess a civilized language and habit.

那么他们长大后就会说我们文明社会的语言以及拥有我们的礼节
President Hayes and the Congress

海斯总统以及国会...
have granted me the use of barracks in Carlisle, Pennsylvania,for a model lndian school

已经批准我利用宾夕发尼亚州卡莱尔的兵营成立一所印第安示范学校
and authorized me to recruit 1 25 children

并授权我在这里以及附近
from here and the territories for its inaugural class.

招收125名孩子作为第一批学员
That's so far away.

那里离这里太远了
Surely the reservation is a better place.

我认为保留地就是一个很好的地方
The reservation works to colonize the lndian,

保留地只是用来限制印第安人的地方
not individualize him.

不是同化他们的地方
lf the lndian is to be assimilated,

如果要把印第安人同化
he must be gotten into the swim of American citizenship.

那么他们就必须融入我们的社会成为我们的公民