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Show 66 COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. These Indians enjoy the good will of the white citizens residing thereabouts. They have been law-abiding, industrious, and are worthy of more consideration and attention than have heretofore been given them. COOPERATION OF MISSIONARIES AND OTHERS. I wish to express earnest appreciation for the cooperation and helpful assistance rendered by the missicnaririas at large and in the field. While ardent in the propagation of their respective religions or denominations, they have, almost without exception, Eeen generous rather than critical of myself or of those representing religious ideas other than their own. Their accompliihments hare Eeen construc-tive and effcctive, not only in the advancement of the Indians spiritually, but industrially, morally, and otherwise. I gratefully acknowledge the unsellish service of philanthropic organizaticns and indi-iiduals who have shown their devotion to and genuine interest in the native American. The recent material advancement of theIndian has been remarkable and has kept pace with the vigorous policy of giving him help toward self-support leading to final dissolution of the ties of paternalism. In 1911 the Indians cultivated 388,025 acres, and last year 678,529 acres; in 1911 they raised crops valued at $1,951,000, sold stock val-ued at $900,000, realized from native industries, such as basket making, blanket weaving, etc., $847,556; and last year they raised crops valued at $5,293,719, sold $4,583,083 worth of stock, and increased the value of their native wares to $1,206,826. The Indian wage earnex for private individuals in 1911 were 3,204, and last year the number thus engaged increased to 6,902, while the value of all live stock owned by the Indians has risen from $17,971,209, in 1911, to $28,824,439 last year. The Ind~anis discovering himself. He is coming to a realization of his own possibilities; putting the past behind him and looking to the future; beginning to understand and appreciate the accom-plishments resulting from industv; to see the profit in individual effort and comprehend the ultimate difference between a cultivated and uncultivated field; the fact that it requires no more labor or expense to raise a well bred, profitable animal than it does to pro-dure a lmg-horn steer, an inbred sheep, or au old-t:me Indian pony. Vital statistics for the same period are not available, but the strenuous efforts being made for a betterment of the purely human side of the Indians is illustrated in the fact that 42,110 families, or at |