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1 Matthew K. Sniffen, Progress in Indian Affairs 1 (1931)

handle is hein.amindian/proindia0001 and id is 1 raw text is: INDIAN RIGHTs ASSOCIATION, INC., 995 DREXEL BUILDING, PHILADELPHIA, PA., MARCH 10, 1931. PROGRESS IN INDIAN AFFAIRS By M. K. SNIFFEN Secretary, Indian Rights Association Charles J. Rhoads, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and J. Henry Scattergood, Associate Commissioner, have been in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for twenty months. In attempt- ing to evaluate what they have accomplished during that time, it is proper to bear in mind what they inherited when they as- sumed charge on July 1, 1929. The report of the Meriam Survey, conducted by the Institute for Government Research, which has been accepted by practically all careful thinkers as a judicial, comprehensive and sane study of the Indian situation as a whole, may be taken as a base. That report confirmed what former Secretary Work said about The poverty of the Indian Service, and recommended that for at least a limited period the Federal appropriations should be increased one hundred per cent to bring the Service to something approaching modern standards for Welfare work. Other out- standing defects were: (1) the attempt to feed the children at the boarding schools on an average per capita of eleven cents a day; (2) a Service personnel largely sub-standard in equipment and insufficient in numbers to do the work called for-low pay, long hours, isolation and poor living conditions, making it difficult to attract and hold high grade employees; (3) the poverty and unadjustment of the Indians, many of whom are very poor. When Messrs. Rhoads and Scattergood entered upon their duties, they concentrated on the most urgent matters facing them, and these were the points indicated above. At the time the Meriam Report was issued the total appropriation for the Indian Service was $14,991,485, for the year 1928. Following the publication of that report, in answer to appeals from friends of the Indians, there was an increase of about $3,000,000 the next year. The Act for the year beginning July 1, 1931, carries $28,184,596 for the Indian Service (of which $24,914,496 is from the Federal Treasury and $3,270,100 from tribal funds)-close to the amount recommended. This is a tribute to the effective pre- Reproduction by Permission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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