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1933 Ann. Rep. Comm'r Off. Indian Aff. Sec'y Interior 68 (1933)

handle is hein.doi/annrepcom0096 and id is 1 raw text is: REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, Washington, D.C. The honorable the SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. SIR: We submit herewith the annual report of the Office of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1933. FOREWORD The Indian Service is confronting certain main problems and is moving on certain main lines of policy. In part, these problems and these lines of policy are indicated in the narrative report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1933. (1) Indian lands.-The allotment system has enormously cut down the Indian landholdings and has rendered many areas, still owned by Indians, practically unavailable for Indian use. The system must be revised both as a matter of law and of practical effect. Allotted lands must be consolidated into tribal or corporate ownership with individual tenure, and new lands must be acquired for the 90,000 Indians who are landless at the present time. A modern system of financial credit must be instituted to enable the Indians to use their own natural resources. And training in the modern techniques of land use must be supplied Indians. The wastage of Indian lands through erosion must be checked. (2) Indian education.-The redistribution of educational oppor- tunity for Indians, out of the concentrated boarding school, reaching the few, and into the day school, reaching the many, must be continued and accelerated. The boarding schools which remain must be spe- cialized on lines of occupational need for children of the older groups, or of the need of some Indian children for institutional care. The day schools must be worked out on lines of community service, reach- ing the adult as well as the child, and influencing the health, the recreation, and the economic welfare of their local areas. (3) Indians in Indian Service.-The increasing use of Indians in, their own official* and unofficial service must be pressed without wearying. To this end, adjustments of Civil Service arrangements to, Indian need must be sought; but in order that standards may not be.

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