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Show I I OOJMMI~SIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 45 who have gone from the tepee, hogan, or wigwam to Government, or mission schools, and thence to different fields of labor, where their work is merged into that of the citizenry. Throughout the year, the office has enjoyed calls from many returned students, who, to quote their own words, "came to pay their respects," or to express gratitude for the help given by the Government in sending them to school, and giving them "a start." Among students who have visions for civic usefulness and well defined plans for work, may be listed aviators, soldiers and sailors, professional musicians, nurses, some now in France, many boys and girls in industrial, literary, and professional work, and numbers working their way through college. Because of their narrowed environment at home and lack of diversity in occupations, the schools, this year, have placed a larger number of pupils than formerly in families. The vacation work amplifies the school instruction and glves another perspective to lie's opportunities. The number of returned students who are prosperous and inde-pendent on their allotments over last year is of important economic significance as showing a year of constructive work upon which to build for competency. ALLOTMENTS. Allotment work was continued on the various %oux reservations during the year under authority of the acts of March 2, 1889 (25 Stat. L., 888), and May 29, 1908 (35 Stat. L., 444-451). The act of 1908, supra, authorizes allotments to any living children of the &oux Tribe of Indians belonging on any of the Great Sioux reservations, and who have not heretofore been dotted, as long es the tribe to which such Indian children belong is possessed of any unallotted tribal or reserva-tion lands. Allotment work was also continued on the Gila River Reservation, Ariz., under a special alloting agent. Due to the intense heat in that part of the country a cessation of field operations is necessary during the summer months. Under the act of August 1, 1914 (38 Stat. L., 5931, 456 allotments, covering an area of 132,315.72 acres, were made to the Indians of the Fort Peck Reservation, and the schedule of selections is being checked up with a view to its ultimate approval and the issuance of trust patents. During the year 120 allotments on the public domain were approved to Turtle Mountain Indiansunder the act of April 21,1904 (33 Stat. L., I 189-194), and cover an area of 15,030.40 acres. On the Colordo &ver Reservation, Ariz., additional lands were allotted to Indians having rights thereon, more especidy Indians who formerly resided at Fort Mojave. |
