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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. OFFICEO F INDIAANF FA~S, Washinoton. D. C.., Se.~ ternber1 .19?28. SIR: I have the honor to submit this the Ninety-first ' ~ n n u a l Report of the,Bureau of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ended June 30,1922. SCHOOLS. Reco izing the importance of the Indian Bureau's educational work, tf e? ch.ief supervisor of education was authorized at the begin-ning of the year to call a conference at his headquarters in Lawrence, Kans., of all the school supervisors for the purpose of developing definite plans for the work of the school ear The conference first completed the focowing organization of dis-tricts for purposes of school supervision : Headquarters district: Kansas, Nebraskai and western Oklahoma. Five Civilized Tribes district: That portion of eastern Oklahoma included in the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw countries. Southwest district: New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado. Pacific coast district: California, Nevada, Oregon, and Wash-ington. Rocky Mountain district: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. Great Lakes district: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, and, as an adjunct, North Carolina and Mississippi. Dakota district: North Dakota and South Dakota. A school supervisor was assigned to each of these districts, with instructions to visit and make a careful survey of every phase of the educational work during the year. Every jurisdiction in the United States and every school under ench jurisdiction has been visited at least once, and many of them twlce or more. The supervisors,have carefully inspected all school plants for the purpose of determining their capacity, their physical condition, how equipped, their most urgent needs as to repairs, new constixction, and new equipment. Very special efforts have been made to determine whether or not the schools are being utlllzed to the best possible advantage and to their greatest capacity. E ~ ~ o r ~ X ~ ~ ~ . - ~ uoef setniroollnmse nt and attendance in scllools of all kinde-Government, mission, and public--have been considered matters of first importance by all supervisors, and the have urged cooperation on the part of not only Government fielcyofficials and employees, but also pf public-school authorities in sections of the country where public schools are accessible to the Indians. For 1 |
