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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. Dm- OF THE INTEB~OE, O m o O~F INDIANA m- Wa8hhgton, Octobm $, 1911. Sm: I have the honor to hand you the eightieth annual report of the O5ce of Indian Affairs, covering the period from July 1, 1910, to June 80,1911. During the past year the efforts of the 6,000 persona who are the Indian Service have been more harmoniously, intensively, and vigor-ously employed than ever before in preparing the Indians to assume their full responsibilities as Americans, the chief of which is self-support. There is nothing derogatory to previous years in this statement because the fruits of the past year are the result, in some cases of months, but in more cases of years and of many years of growth. All activities employed in this steadily increasing encouragement of the Indians toward self-support are governed by the two main aims of the service-first, to prepare the Indians for the liftiig of the Government's hand, and, second, to lift the hand. The first aim covers all the things we are trying to do to prepare the Indiana to I I bear their new responsibilities. Luckily the day has gone by when the sink-or-swim policy is the central idea in a great economic and I sociological problem like Indian affairs; even more luckily the day has passed when an excess of sentiment could defend its position in robbing any human being of that strengthening process of mind and ~ I muscle which comes from bearing heavier and heavier, and often seemingly impossible, loads. In fine, we are working overtime to get the Indians ready. Under the second head comes the problems of how to let go, where Indiana in one way or another have grown self-dcing. HEALTH. First in importance come the =ems employed to protect and improve the health of the Indi- part of the service in which the office has a medical supervisor, 100 regular and 60 contract 3 I |