E 93 BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS GEORGE VAUX, Jr., Bryn Mawr, Pa.; appointed November 27, 1906. GEORGE VAUX, Jr., Chairman. II FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS, FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1927 WASHINGTON, D. C., September 1, 1927. SIR: We have the honor of submitting this, the Fifty-eighth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1927, during which members of the board visited and inspected the following schools and agencies of the Indian Service: Fort Hall and Fort Lapwai Agencies, Idaho; Salem School and Klamath and Warm Springs Agencies, Oreg.; Blackfeet Agency, Mont.; Phoenix School and Sells, Pima, and San Carlos Agencies, Ariz.; Northern Pueblos Agency and Pueblo Lands Board, N. Mex.; Sac and Fox Agency, Iowa; Choctaw Agency, Miss.; Cherokee Agency, N. C. Special reports on the agencies visited, with recommendations, have been transmitted to you and they are appended hereto in abridged form. The board held its usual meetings during the year. George Vaux, jr., of Bryn Mawr, Pa., was reelected chairman, and Malcolm McDowell, of Washington, D. C., was reelected secretary of the board. There was no change in the personnel of the board during the year. FEDERAL AND STATE RELATIONS We beg to direct your attention to the growing tendency toward closer cooperation in the relations of the Federal and State Governments in the administration of Indian affairs. Three bills were introduced in the last Congress to authorize the expenditures of Federal appropriations for the education, health, and social welfare of Indians in California, Montana, and Wisconsin by appropriate State agencies. The Montana bill reached a hearing in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and the Legislatures of California and Montana indorsed the principles of the bills and urged their passage. None of the measures was reported out by the committee. It is probable that one or all will be reintroduced in the coming session of Congress and that an earnest effort will be made to pass them. The bills referred to were substantially identical in their provisions. Their character and purposes are well expressed in the California measure, which provides for the exclusive administration, under the general direction of the Secretary of the Interior, by the State board of education, the State board of health, and the State board of public welfare, of all funds appropriated by Congress "for the education or medical attention or health service and for the relief of the aged and infirm among the Indians of California.' Before the Secretary shall approve the expenditures of such appropriations the bill requires that "he shall receive official assurance from the respective State agencies in the State of California above 1 |