Film describes federal education of the Native American Indian students in the United States. An Indian student works on a sketch. Indian and American students leave a school bus at Klamath Indian Reservation in Oregon. The students enter a school building. Children on swings in a public school playground. Three Native American Indian students posing.
U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrives at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, United States. He inspects the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps. He shake hands with the young men there. The President seated at a table with some of the men.. They eat food. Tents in the background. The President talking to the CCC boys during the Great Depression.
Vocational training at the Berea College, United States. Berea College is situated between the Kentucky Mountains. The entrance gate of the college. Students in a class. Some students walk around the campus. Women hook rugs, work on a loom and spin yarn. The college president Dr. William J. Hutchins speaks to the students. Students are introduced to the Dean.
Elementary training in Berea College, United States. Students in a library read books and make notes. They make use of modern equipment for experiments in a laboratory. The young students of astronomy look at the mysteries in the heaven. Students in a pump room are explained how running water is brought into their homes.
Training for future housewife homemakers in the Berea College, United States. Women cook food at home. They pray and eat their food. Women walk outside the houses. A demonstration for the young mothers. A woman demonstrates how to keep a baby and teaches how to clean a baby.
A nursery school helps in the progressive education for Berea College students, United States. Young children on swings, sea-saws and on a bicycle. Children look out of the window of a small house. They play in the soil. The children are taught how to make creative things out of boxes. A teachers teaches a child to climb up. They are taught to paint and are served with food.