This primary source discusses the annual report of the Forest Grove School. The source includes in detail, the progress Native American boys and girls are making at their American Indian School called Forest Grove School in Oregon of 1882. The article discusses that great progress for the boys is considered to be work accomplished, blacksmithing, carpentry, and farming. As for girls the source talks of how the girls have have been flourishing by manufacturing all their clothing and have learned to live in such an organized and neat manner. The reason Wilkins wrote this was to point out how well the Indians are doing in adapting into American culture, how the program is working very well, and how without these programs the goal of “civilizing” Indians would be out of reach.