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Show BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS THE YEAR'S WORK IN BRIEF The report of the Institute for Government Research, which made perhaps the most comprehensive survey of Indian affairs ever under- , taken, was received near the close of the fiscal year and is now being studied by the department. An engineering survey of the principal irrigation projects of the Indians was made during the year and the comprehensive report and reoommendations submitted 'are having the attention of the officers of the department. An appropriation of $25,000 for the employment of graduates of agricultural colleges. scientifically trained and qualified, to supervise the agricultural activi-ties of the Indians will partially fill a long-felt need in the Indian Service. The various State colleges and universities of the Western States cooperated in working out the problems of Indlan agricul-ture and stock raising. Farmers' short courses were held during the fall and winter of 1927-28, faculties volunteering their services and officials tendering the free use of buildings and equipment. There has been an increase in the enrollment of Indians 'in the junior high and senior high school years, the increase in 1928 over the prior year being 428 in the former and 231 in the latter. The reorganiza-tion of the Indian medical service, which was put into effect in 1926, resulted in better coordmation of health activities. Cooperative arrangements have been made with other Federal health agencies; also with those which are State, local, and voluntary. An authori-zation of an appropriation of $1,200,000 has been obtained to buy lands for the large number of Navajo Indians in New Mexico and Arizona scattered over the public domain. The Coolidge Dam, on the Gila River in Arizona, under construction at an estimated cost of $5,850,000, including hydroelectric power development, to impound waters for adequate irrigation facilities for the Pima Indians, will be completed in the immediate future. By an agreement with the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association and the Paradise- Verde power and irrigation district, provision is made to insure an adequate water supply for the Pima Indians on the Salt River Reservation. This will satisfy a need of many years. EDUCATION OF THE INDIANS The administration of the Bureau of Indian Mairs of this depart-ment touches a variety of human activities. On behalf of about 1 |