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Show Indian Warpath Leads Straight to Plants, Army WASHINGTON. The war has brought the greatest exodus of Indians In-dians from reservations that has ever taken place, according to Indian Indi-an Commissioner John Collier's annual an-nual report to Interior Secretary Ickes. The report, just released, says 55 per cent of the able-bodied Indian men between 18 and 50 are in the armed forces or war industries. In addition, more than 10,000 Indian men, women and children have worked outside the reservations for varying periods. Despite the exodus, the report continued, con-tinued, those remaining on reservations reserva-tions have increased agricultural production. The value of agricultural agricul-tural commodities produced on reservations, res-ervations, principally by women, children, and older men, totaled $19,000,000 in 1943, a gain of nearly $2,000,000 from 1942. |