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Show ABOLISHMENT OF AGENCIES. In pursuance of the general policy which has been adopted, heliev-ing it to be for the best interasts of the Indians to substitute for Indian agents bonded superintendents of schools, Congress, in the appropriation act for the current fiscal year, omitted appropriations for ten agents. They were located asfollows: Cheyenne and Arapaho, Okla. ; Fort Apache, Ariz.; Jicarilla, N. Mex. ; Klamath, Oreg.; Omaha and Winnebago, Nebr. ; Pima, Ariz. ; Ponca, etc., Okla. ; Sauk and Fox, Okla; Southern Ute, Colo., and Umatilla, Oreg. Allof these agencies have therefore been placed in charge of the superintendents of the training schools located at the respective agencies. The Navaho Reservation, situated in New Xexico and Arizona, is one of the largest in the United States. It has an estimated population of about 20,000 Indians. These lndians are practically in the same condition they have been for years past. The Office has endeavored, under the management and control of one agent, to secure a better-ment of their condition, but has finally become convinced that such policy can not he successfully carried out. Therefore, this large reser-vation has been divided in two by a line drawn east and west and the southern bslf has been placed under a superintendent at Fort Defiance and the northern half under a superintendent on the San Juan Kiver. There are under the Mission Tule River (Consolidated) Agency in southern California, 11 day schools and 27 reservations. Owing to the widely separated localities of these schools and reservations, it was man-ifestly impossible for one agent properly to look after their respective interests. Hence they have been divided into two groups, one placed under the superintendent of the training school at San Jacinto, and the other under the superintendent of the training school at Pala. Under the Potawatomi, Great Nemaha, etc., Agency, in Kansas, were included several scattered reservations. These have been sep-ar~ ted, and the Potawatomi reserve and school placed under the superintentlent of the training school at that place. The other smaller reserves were placed under the superintendent of the Kickapoo Train-ing School near Horton, Kans. The Che~ennean d Arapaho Reservation is a large reserve in Okla-homa, on which were located 5 boarding schools. This reservation has been broken up, and a portion with 2 schools, placed under the superintendent of the Cheyenne and Arapaho training schools, another portion under the superintendent of the Cantonment Training School, and the remainder with 2 schools, under the superinteudent of the Seger Training School. The Moapa Indians have a small reservation of a few hundred acres in southeastern Nevada. The Indians are few in number and h a ~feor |
