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Show 6 REPORT OF TBE COMMI8SIONFR OF INDIAN AFFAIRS An Indian boy from the Uintah and Ouray Reservation won theblue ribbon in the barden proj&?t for'the State of Utah. A team of girls from the Northern Pueblos; New Mexico, won ~econd.'prize lnthe garden demonstration at the State contest. . . A team of Winnebago Iqdian boys gave a demonstrationat the ~ational Club Congress in Chicago. Several h u n d d Indian boys: and girls attended club camps and short courses. . , ~ , ~ .. Ail the honors'were,~onin' competition ivith the ihites. .The suc-cess of the year's work indicates the growkg influence which club work is exercising among Indian. parents throughout the country. FARMINANOD GRAZING L E A S E S . - ~ ~ e~v~er~y effort is .made to have theIndians themselves utilize their farming and grazing lands so far as possible,.there still remain considerable areas in excess of , the acreage which they can so use and develop. Suchsurplus lands '- are, therefore, leased to other persons upsn the hestterms obtainable I -a nd.. the income derived therefrom is available for support of t h e Indian owners. The act of July 3,1926, p~ovidesth at the. unallotted irrigable lands within any Indian reservation may he leased for farming purposes for a period not exceeding 10 years with the consent of the tribal1 or business committee of the Indians. This law places irrigable tribaI land on the same basis as allotted land by authorizing leases for the period mentioned, and it is expected that there will result the utiliza-tion of large areas of tribal land which it was not nossible to lease under prior existing law. EMPLOYMENT OF INDIANS A survey of the field reveals Indians engaged i n the activitir?~o f Ge,eqple of other races. At home,they make articles of aboriginal art whlch tourists and traders purchase with readiness. Observition 04 the comfortable homes and of the industry of their neighbors has inspired a praiseworthy restlessness among them, which induces them to seek work. Thereis a demand for' Indian labor with adequate wages in. land reclamation, railroading, agriculture, logging, nutting, fishing; driving taxicabs, as automobile mechanics, etc. Enlistments in the Army and Navy have developed both noncomrniseioued and commissioned officers. Cinema companies employ a number and over 1,700 are. on the pay roll of the. Government. The five-year ogram provldes occupation .at home for those members of the Emily who are agricukturally inclined. The work at the school plants affords practical experience to students, while the skill de; veloped through 'Indian school training enables .graduates to secure employment in the.mechanica1 trades, and as teachers, nurses, clerkss, and rhome makers. Many lost to the reservations as Indians maybe found.n~ergedin the body politicas citizen workers in factories, shops,.onfarms: and in otherpursuits. AUte housekeeper in New Jersey, a Shawnee manager of a college dining loom, a Chippewa structural-iron worker; are afew among hundreds of students of Government schools who were trained to skillful workers and inspired to become self; su&port~ng-. . . . efin~tep rogress is noted in mitigating the fluctuations of employ: ment. An em loyment office is maintained at Phoenix, Ark. The development o f the Southwest offers a diversity of work to Indians |