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Show io REPORT OF . coMnrvIss1omR op .mIm AmAHts In addition toreservation allotmenhs shown above, 5q~allotments were made to Indians residing on the public domain in various States, embracing 8,371.72 acres. . . . . EXTENSION OF. TRUST PERIODS The period of trust was extended by order of the President on allotments made to Indians of the following-named tFihes and bands: Prairie Baud of Pottawatomie, Kansas; Iowa Tribe, Kansas and Nebraska; Winnebago, Nebraska; Pawnee, Oklahoma; Sietz, Oregon; Lower Brule, and Rosebud, South Dakota. CHOCTAW ~NDIANS OF MISSISSIPPI Three separate purchases of land were made during the F, covering a total of 230 acres, at a cost of $5,000. This Ian has been resold to six Choctaws of the full. blood under the reimbursable plan and will provide home sites for about. 30 ersons. In addition to the tracts actually purchased, $1,480 has g een obligated ,in the proposed purchase of 160 acres for resale to three individurtls, whose combined families comprise about 15 persons. To date, $43,912 has been used for the purchase of 1;593 acres. This land has been resold to 58 Indians. It is estimated that approximately 253 individuals have been provided with homes in this way. MISCELLANEOUS' PURCHASES The purchase of 3,071 acres of land in Polk County, Tex., for the Alabama and Coushatta Indians has been consummated at a cost of $29,000. Negotiations are under way for the purchase of 3,065 acres , of privately owned land within the.exterior boundariea of the Fort Apache Reservation, Ariz., at a cost pf $6,130. On the Crow Res-ervation, Mont., 160 acres of land was purchased at a-cost of $800, on the site of the Reno battlefield, for monumental purposes. A tract of land containing 20 acres was purchased for the Indian colony at Winnemucca, Nev., at a cost of $500. Approximately 60 persons will be benefited by this urchase. All of these purchases were made from funds authorize d?' by Congress. ADDITIONAL LANDS FOR INDIAN USE . Under authority of the act of February 9i1%929 (45 Stat. L. 1158), a small tract of land containing approximately 7 acres, located at Celilo on the Columbia River in Oregon, was transferred from the War Depcrtment to the lnterior Departnient as.a fishing camp site for a small band of Indians now living thereon. Under authority of the act of February 11,1929 (45 Stat. L. 1161), several tracts containing 920 acres, located near Kanosh, Utah, were permanently set aside for the use and benefit of the Kanosh band of fndians. - Under authority of the act of Februssy 11 1929 (45 Stat. L. 1161), a strip of land 1% miles wde and 4 d e s iong, running north and south, lying between the boundary of the San Ildefonso Pueblo Grant on the east and the eastern boundary of the Santa Fe NationalForest on the west, located in Santa Fe County, N. was permanently |