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Show I' BEPOET OF THE OOMbfISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFbIBs. 43 Indian Service in order to accomplish moresuccessfully the work along these lines. I am also emphasizing the need of and doing everything possible to obtain for the Indians more sanitary homes, more adequate school facilities for Indian children, supplying sick Indians with medical attention and taking precautionary methods to prevent disease, adjusting more equitably the cost of irrigation projects constructed out of reimbursable funds, making larger use of the timber resources of the Indiana for their industrial and social advancement, taking advantage of the valuable grazing lands of the Indiana to build up tribal herds as wen as p~omoting among individual Indians a larger and more ~rofitable cattle, sheep, and horse industry, and utilizing in every practicable way the resources of the Indians, both tribal and individual, in promoting their more complete civilization and economic independence. It is my &red purpose to bring about the speedy individualizing of $he Indians, and to this end I shall continue to devote my best efforts. Very truly yours, CATO SELLS, Commissimer. The SECEETABYO F TEE INTERIOR. |