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Show ~ O ~ M I S S I OOP ~IN DIAN AFBAIRS. 61 Authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to make allotment8 on the Umatilla Reservation. Appropriating $1,000 bequeathed to the Carlisle Indian School by the will of Bradford R. Wood, late of Albany, N. Y., to waist needy students from the Carlisle School in extending their educa-tion to become trained nurses. Appropriating $300,000 for school buildings on the Crow Creek, Pine Ridge, Rosebud, Standing Rock, Yankton, Sibseton, Lower Brule, and Cheyenne River Reservations. Following this appro-priation is a provision that it is hereby declared to be the settled policy of the Government to hereafter make no appropriation what-ever out of the Treasury of the United Statea for education of Indian children in any sectarian school. Ratifying and confirming as of the dates of issuance certain patent8 to lands in the State of Washington heretofore issued as fee-simple patents under the homestead act of May 20, 1862 (12 Stat. L., 392). Appropriating $100,000 for the support and civilization of the Wisconsin Band of Pottawatomie Indiana residing in the States of Wisconsin and Michigan. Authoriziing the withdrawal of $387,000 of the tribal funds of the Menominee Indians in Wisconsin, to be expended in aiding these Indians to fit themselves for or to engage in farming or such other pursuits or avocations as will enable these Indians to become self-supporting. Thii provision also authorized an apportionment of these funds, together with the $300,000 appropriated last year, on a per capita basis among all enrolled members of the Menominee Tribe, and a per capita payment of $50 to each member of the tribe was authorized to be made immediately after the paasage of the act. Appropriating $5,000 to enable the Secretary of the Interior to make additional surveya and examinations for the purpose of pre-paring and submitting an estimate for the beginning of construction of a project for the watering of a portion of the conditionally ceded lands of the Wind River Reservation, Wyo. The artiole just below, which appeared in the New York Herald, emphasizes in an interesting way our disposition to he substantially helpful to the small and heretofore neglected tribes of Indiana through-out the country. POSQOTTEN INDIAN TRIBES AT LA8T BEMEYBERED. The Federal Government hse long made proviaions for the welfare of the "big'' Indian6-the Apache, the Cheyenne, the Five Civilieed 'Mia, and othe~lfbuotn ly very recently h a the paternal hand of Uncle 8am been extended toward the lesser group of red men, none the lees deserving because they have no particular hold on the popular imagination.. Small tribes are now claiming a share of the attention of Cato Sells, Indian Com-d o n e ? . The Papago, of Arizona, one of the most induatrioue of the Indian peoplm, |