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1934 Ann. Rep. Comm'r Off. Indian Aff. Sec'y Interior 78 (1934)

handle is hein.doi/annrepcom0097 and id is 1 raw text is: OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS (JOHN COLLIER, Commissioner) The fiscal year 1934 has seen a reorientation of Indian Service policies, and many reorganizations completed or set under way. It. has been a year of intense labor, because numerous emergency tasks (some of them of dominating importance to the Indians) have been thrown upon an overhead personnel which previously had been considered a meager one for the regular work alone. On the whole, the staff has met its challenge, and the response of the Indians has gone beyond anything previously hoped for. A brief outline of the report follows: Page. Wheeler-Howard Act ----------------------------------------- 7 Education ----------------------------------------------------- 84 Health ---------------------------------------------------- 2 Indian land ------------------------------------------------ Probate work ----------------------------------------------------- 101 Emergency conservation work -------------------------------------10 Forestry -----------------------------------------------------16 Roads ------------------------------------------------------- 108 Irrigation ----------------------------------------------------- 109 Extension 11---------------------------------------------------- Indian employment ---------------------------------------------- 114 Appropriations ------------------------------------------------ 115 Recent developments --------------------------------------------118 Appendix (Indian population) -------------------------------------121 THE WHEELER-HOWARD ACT In the last paragraph of the Commissioner's annual report for 1933 it was stated: If we can relieve the Indian of the unrealistic and fatal allotment system, if we can provide him with land and the means to work the land; if, through group organization and tribal incorporation, we can give him a real share in the management of his own affairs, he can develop normally in his own natural environment. The Indian problem as it exists today, including the heaviest and most unproductive administration costs of public service, has largely grown out of the allotment system which has destroyed the economic integrity of the Indian estate and deprived the Indians of normal economic and human activity. The allotment system with its train of evil consequences was. definitely abandoned as the backbone of the national Indian policy when Congress adopted and the President approved the Wheeler- Howard bill. The first section of this act in effect repeals the General Allotment Act of 1887. During numerous committee- 78

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