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Show INDIANS MED REPORTASSERTS Removal of Guardianship Op-I Op-I posed by Federal Indian Bureau I J WASHINGTON. Dec. P. Then I many Instance? in which Indians rc- leased from government guardlfl I 1 n.-ive been victimized by "unsOFupttl-I "unsOFupttl-I otis" exploiters who made plane "to I 1 rob the Indian even before the latter I J had received his certificate of inde- . pendence," according to th annual re-I re-I n port of the Indian commissi re mode J public last night. The bureau, on Uus ground, vigorously opposed blanket I release of tho Bovernmcnt'e wards. j which, ii says, hue been Increasingly H agitated for ebmc years. . -Th. remov il "t i - Mti ii lion from Indians la an individual, not a Krotip I question.' t lie rcporl sold, "ex opting I for those people who have a I proporilon of white than Indian blood." in Ihe ltt( i cam li dlani should be given full control ( money , ,ind property held m trust r..; them JJ by the government as soon as poasl-H poasl-H -a ble. the commissioners said. Where 2 these With half or more Indian blood 39 ;iro involved, however, the comnils-HJ comnils-HJ slonera arc "decided! opposed'1 to ft wholesale removal ol restrictions. Btl Cases of Indians victimized 0 Hfl base from supervision have been so lie i 1 I been suggested tiat an allotment of 1 I ,1 tte acres of land should be 1 1 made for released wards, inalienable 1 for a period of years 111 order that M I "when a 'freed' Indian, incompetent fl' m fa'-t bill ompet.nl b degree, has I lost his money and other lands, he HI may have a place of refuge. HJH The commissioners point out sev- HJI . enty-thrcc per cent of the Indians, HJV elusive of t lie five civilized tribes, are rrom half-blood I -blood and i hat II 0Biy 55 per cent of the government HJI ward:', exclusive of the fl Iribea ar HJ able to speak and only 37 per I eni j able to read and write ECngllsh Bta-tlstlcs Bta-tlstlcs as to the five irlbi a are lac k-lng k-lng but in view of the known tacts Hb the report asserts that "the cry from HJ Interested quarters to turn all Indians Mmi loose immediately should receive scant HL attention." |