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Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1929.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and in full compensation for all offices and salaries which are provided for herein for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, namely:
For the survey, resurvey, classification, and allotment of lands in severalty under the provisions of the Act of February 8, 1887 (Twenty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 388), entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians," and under any other Act or Acts providing for the survey or allotment of Indian lands, $60,000, reimbursable, to be immediately available: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be used for the survey, resurvey, classification, or allotment of any land in severalty on the public domain to any Indian, whether of the Navajo or other tribes, within the State of New Mexico and the State of Arizona, who was not residing upon the public domain prior to June 30, 1914.
For the construction, repair, and maintenance of irrigation systems, and for purchase or rental of irrigation tools and appliances, water rights, ditches, and lands necessary for irrigation purposes for Indian reservations and allotments; for operation of irrigation systems or appurtenances thereto when no other funds are applicable or available for the purpose; for drainage and protection of irrigable lands from damage by floods or loss of water rights, upon the Indian irrigation projects named below:
Irrigation district one: Round Valley Reservation, California, $1,000.
Irrigation district two: Shivwits, $500; Walker River Reservation, Nevada, $8,000; Western Shoshone Reservation, Idaho and
Nevada, $3,500; total, $12,000.
Irrigation district three: Tongue River, Montana, $2,000.
Irrigation district four: Ak Chin Reservation, Arizona, $4,000; Coachella Valley pumping plants, California, $11,000; Owens
River Valley projects, California, $2,000; Soboba Reservation, California, $750; Morongo Reservation, California, $8,000;
Pala Reservation and Rincon Reservation, California, $2,500; Tule River Reservation, California, $5,000; miscellaneous projects,
$10,000; total, $43,250.
Irrigation district five: New Mexico Pueblos, $15,000 ; Zuni Reservation, New Mexico, $4,500; Navajo and Hopi, miscellaneous
projects, Arizona, including Tes-nos-pos, Moencopi Wash, Kin-le-chee, Wide Ruins, Red Lake, Corn Creek, Wepo Wash, Oraibi
Wash, and Polacca Wash, $15,000; total, $34,500.
For necessary miscellaneous expenses incident to the general administration of Indian irrigation projects, including salaries of not to exceed five supervising engineers:
In Indian irrigation district one: Oregon, Washington, northern California, and northern Idaho, $10,000 ;
In Indian irrigation district two: Southern Idaho, Nevada, and Utah, $12,500;
In Indian irrigation district three: Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota, $11,000;
In Indian irrigation district four: Central and southern California and southern Arizona, $15,500;
In Indian irrigation district five: Northern Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, $12,000;
For cooperative stream gauging with the United States Geological Survey, $2,000;
For necessary surveys and investigations to determine the feasibility and estimated cost of new projects and power and reservoir
sites on Indian reservations in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the Act of June 25, 1910, $1,000;
Irrigation district one: Colville Reservation, $6,000; irrigation district five: Southern Ute Reservation, Colorado, $14,000;
total, $20,000; the above amounts to be paid out of tribal funds; reimbursable under such rules, regulations, and conditions
as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For pay of one chief irrigation engineer, $4,000; one assistant chief irrigation engineer, $3,000; one superintendent of
irrigation competent to pass upon water rights, $2,500; one field cost accountant, $2,250; and for traveling and incidental expenses of officials and employees of the Indian irrigation service, including sleeping-car fare,
and a per diem not exceeding $3.50 in lieu of subsistence when actually employed in the field and away from designated headquarters,
$6,000 ; total, $17, 750 ;
In all, for irrigation on Indian reservations, $174,500, reimbursable as provided in the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth
Statutes at Large, page 582) : Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended on any irrigation system or reclamation project for which public funds
are or may be otherwise available: Provided further, That the foregoing amounts appropriated for such purposes shall be available interchangeably in the discretion of the Secretary
of the Interior for the necessary expenditures for damages by floods and other unforeseen exigencies: Provided, however, That the amount so interchanged shall not exceed in the aggregate 10 per centum of all the amounts so appropriated.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among Indians, $35,000.
For the relief and care of destitute Indians not otherwise provided for, and for the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis, trachoma, smallpox, and other contagious and infectious diseases, including transportation of patients to and from hospitals and sanatoria, $375,000: Provided further, That this appropriation may be used also for general medical and surgical treatment of Indians, including the maintenance and operation of general hospitals, where no other funds are applicable or available for that purpose: Provided further, That out of the appropriation herein authorized there shall be available for the maintenance of the sanatoria and hospitals hereinafter named, and for incidental and all other expenses for their proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, equipment, and improvements, not to exceed the following amounts: Blackfeet Hospital, Montana, $12,500; Carson Hospital, Nevada, $10,000; Cheyenne and Arapahoe Hospital, Oklahoma, $10,000; Choctaw and Chickasaw Hospital, Oklahoma, $35,000; Fort Lapwai Sanatorium, Idaho, $40,000; Laguna Sanatorium, New Mexico, $17,000; Mescalero Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Navajo Sanatorium, Arizona, $10,000; Pima Hospital, Arizona, $13,000; Phoenix Sanatorium, Arizona, $40,000; Spokane Hospital, Washington, $10,000; Sac and Fox Sanatorium, Iowa, $40,000, of which sum $5,000 shall be immediately available; Turtle Mountain Hospital, North Dakota, $10,000; Winnebago Hospital, Nebraska, $18,000; Crow Creek Hospital, South Dakota, $8,000; Hoopa Valley Hospital, California, $10,000; Jicarilla Hospital, New Mexico, $10,000; Truxton Canyon camp hospital, Arizona, $10,000; Indian Oasis Hospital, Arizona, $10,000.
For support of Indian day and industrial schools not otherwise provided for, and other educational and industrial purposes in connection therewith, $1,700,000: Provided, That not to exceed $40,000 of this amount may be used for the support and education of deaf and dumb or blind or mentally deficient Indian children: Provided, That all reservation and nonreservation boarding schools, with an average attendance of less than forty-five and eighty pupils, respectively, shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1922: Provided, That this limitation as to attendance shall not apply to the Hope Indian School for Girls at Springfield, South Dakota, which school is hereby reestablished and continued. The pupils in schools so discontinued shall be transferred first, if possible, to Indian day schools or State public schools; second, to adjacent reservation or nonreservation boarding schools, to the limit of the capacity of said schools: Provided further, That all day schools with an average attendance of less than eight shall be discontinued on or before the beginning of the fiscal year 1922: And provided further, That all moneys appropriated for any school discontinued pursuant to this Act or for other cause shall be returned immediately to the Treasury of the United States: Provided further, That not more than $200,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended for the tuition of Indian children enrolled in the public schools: And Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the support of Indian day and industrial schools where specific appropriation is made.1
For construction, lease, purchase, repair, and improvement of school and agency buildings, including the purchase of necessary lands and the installation, repair, and improvement of heating, lighting, power, and sewerage and water systems in connection therewith, $350,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of salaries and expenses of persons employed in the supervision of construction or repair work of roads and bridges and on school and agency buildings in the Indian Service: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to allow employees in the Indian Service, who are furnished quarters, necessary heat and light for such quarters without charge, such heat and light to be paid for out of the fund chargeable with the cost of heating and lighting other buildings at the same place And provided further, That the amount so expended for agency purposes shall not be included in the maximum amounts for compensation of employees prescribed by section 1, Act of August 24, 1912.
For collection and transportation of pupils to and from Indian and public schools, and for placing school pupils, with the consent of their parents, under the care and control of white families qualified to give them moral, industrial, and educational training, $90,000: Provided, That not exceeding $5,000 of this sum may be used for obtaining remunerative employment for Indian youths and, when necessary, for payment of transportation and other expenses to their places of employment: Provided further, That where practicable the transportation and expenses of pupils shall be refunded and shall be returned to the appropriation from which paid. The provisions of this section shall also apply to native Indian pupils of school age under twenty-one years of age brought from Alaska.
For the purposes of preserving living and growing timber on Indian reservations and allotments, and to educate Indians in the proper care of forests; for the employment of suitable persons as matrons to teach Indian women and girls housekeeping and other household duties, for necessary traveling expenses of such matrons, and for furnishing necessary equipments and supplies and renting quarters for them where necessary; for the conducting of experiments on Indian school or agency farms designed to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, grains, vegetables, cotton, and fruits, and for the employment of practical farmers and stockmen, in addition to the agency and school farmers now employed; for necessary traveling expenses of such farmers and stockmen and for furnishing necessary equipment and supplies for them; and for superintending and directing farming and stock raising among Indians, $400,000, of which sum not less than $75,000 shall be used for the employment of field matrons: Provided, That the foregoing shall not, as to timber, apply to the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin: Provided further, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be used to conduct experiments on Indian school or agency farms to test the possibilities of soil and climate in the cultivation of trees, cotton, grain, vegetables, and fruits: Provided also, That the amounts paid to matrons, foresters, farmers, physicians, nurses, and other hospital employees,
and stockmen provided for in this Act shall not be included within the limitations on salaries and compensation of employees contained in the Act of August 24, 1912.
For expenses necessary to the purchase of goods and supplies for the Indian Service, including inspection, pay of necessary employees, and all other expenses connected therewith, including advertising, storage, and transportation of Indian goods and supplies, $370,000: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used for the maintenance of to exceed three warehouses in the Indian Service.
For telegraph and telephone toll messages on business pertaining to the Indian Service sent and received by the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Washington, $7,000.
For witness fees and other legal expenses incurred in suits instituted in behalf of or against Indians involving the question of title to lands allotted to them, or the right of possession of personal property held by them, and in hearings set by the United States local land officers to determine the rights of Indians to public lands, $600: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used in the payment of attorneys’ fees.
For expenses of the Board of Indian Commissioners, $10,000.
For pay of Indian police, including chiefs of police at not to exceed $50 per month each and privates at not to exceed $30 per month each, to be employed in maintaining order, for purchase of equipments and supplies, and for rations for policemen at nonration agencies, $150,000.
For pay of judges of Indian courts where tribal relations now exist, $7,000.
For pay of special agents, at $2,000 per annum; for traveling and incidental expenses of such special agents, including sleeping-car fare, and a per diem of not to exceed $3.50 in lieu of subsistence, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, when actually employed on duty in the field or ordered to the seat of government; for transportation and incidental expenses of officers and clerks of the Office of Indian Affairs when traveling on official duty; for pay of employees not otherwise provided for; and for other necessary expenses of the Indian Service for which no other appropriation is
available, $125,000: Provided, That $7,500 of this appropriation shall be used for continuing the work of the Competency Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be expended out of applicable funds in the work of determining the competency of Indians on Indian reservations outside of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma: Provided further, That not exceeding $3,000 of this amount shall be immediately available for the purchase of a bookkeeping machine with incidental equipment and supplies in the Office of Indian Affairs: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay for certain law books purchased for the Office of Indian Affairs at an expense of $488.70, from the appropriation for general expenses of the Indian Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921.
For pay of six Indian Service inspectors, exclusive of one chief inspector, at salaries not to exceed $2,500 per annum and actual traveling and incidental expenses, and not to exceed $3.50 per diem in lieu of subsistence when actually employed on duty in the field away from home or designated headquarters, $25,000.
For the purpose of determining the heirs of deceased Indian allottees having any right, title, or interest in any trust or restricted property, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, $100,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to use not to exceed $30,000 for the employment of additional clerks in the Indian Office in connection with the work of determining the heirs of deceased Indians, and examining their wills, out of the $100,000 appropriated herein: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the Osage Indians nor to the Five Civilized Tribes of Oklahoma.
For the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among the Indians and to aid them in the culture of fruits, grains, and other crops, $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which sum may be used for the purchase of seeds, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable Indians to become self-supporting: Provided, That said sum shall be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1930: Provided further, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be expended on any one reservation or for the benefit of any one tribe of Indians, and that no part of this appropriation shall be used for the purchase of tribal herds.
That not to exceed $200,000 of applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of superintendents, farmers, physicians, field matrons, allotting, irrigation, and other
employees in the Indian field service: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 may be used in the purchase of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $40,000 for the purchase of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and that such vehicles shall be used only for official service: Provided further, That such motor-propelled vehicles shall be purchased from the War Department, if practicable.
For reimbursing Indians for live stock which may be hereafter destroyed on account of being infected with dourine or other contagious diseases, and for expenses in connection with the work of eradicating and preventing such diseases, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $20,000.
For improving springs, drilling wells, and otherwise developing and conserving water for the use of Indian stock, including the purchase, construction, and installation of pumping machinery, tanks, troughs and other necessary equipment, and for necessary investigations and surveys, for the purpose of increasing the available grazing range on unallotted lands on Indian reservations, $40,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the necessity exists on any Indian reservation so far as the Indians themselves are concerned.
There is hereby appropriated from any fund in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the payment of newspaper advertisements of sales of Indian lands, reimbursable from payments by purchasers of costs of sale, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
That section 26 of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, and for other purposes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920," approved June 30, 1919 (Public, Numbered 3, Sixty-sixth Congress), be amended as follows:
"That wherever the term ‘metalliferous’ is used in said section 26 of the above-entitled Act, it shall be defined and construed by the Secretary of the Interior to include magnesite, gypsum, limestone, and asbestos."1
That the restricted allotment of any Indian may be leased for farming and grazing purposes by the allottee or his heirs, subject only to the approval of the superintendent or other officer in charge of the reservation where the land is located, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to the Five Civilized Tribes.
For support and civilization of Indians in Arizona, including pay of employees, $190,000.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Fort Mojave, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $46,300; for general repairs and improvements, $3,800; in all, $50,100.
For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Phoenix, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $152,500; for general repairs and improvements, $12,500; in all, $165,000.
For new buildings and additions to and remodeling of present buildings at the Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, $50,000.
For support and education of one hundred pupils at the Indian school at Truxton Canyon, Arizona, and for pay of superintendent, $25,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $30,000.
For continuing the work of constructing the irrigation system for the irrigation of the lands of the Pima Indians in the vicinity of Sacaton, on the Gila River Indian Reservation, within the limit of cost fixed by the Act of March 3, 1905 (Thirty-third Statutes at Large, page 1081), $5,000; and for maintenance and operation of the pumping plants and canal systems, $10,000; in all, $15,000, reimbursable as provided in section 2 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 522).
For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and laterals for the utilization of water from the pumping plant on the Colorado River Indian Reservation, as provided in the Act of April 4, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 273); $50,000; and for maintaining and operating the pumping plant, canals, and structures, $36,000; in all, $86,000, reimbursable as provided in the aforesaid Act.
For operation and maintenance of pumping plants for distribution of a water supply for Papago Indian villages in southern Arizona, $20,000.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to carry into effect the provisions of the sixth article of the treaty of June 1, 1868, between the United States and the Navajo Nation or Tribe of Indians, proclaimed August 12, 1868, whereby the United States agrees to provide school facilities for the children of the Navajo Tribe of Indians, $100,000: Provided, That the said Secretary may expend said funds, in his discretion, in establishing or enlarging day or industrial schools.
For continuing the development of a water supply for the Navajo and Hopi Indians on the Moqui Reservation, and the Navajo, Pueblo Bonito, San Juan, and Western Navajo subdivisions of the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico, $35,000, reimbursable out of any funds of said Indians now or hereafter available.
For operation and maintenance of the Ganado irrigation project, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, $3,500.
For operation and maintenance of the pumping plants on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, Arizona, $10,000, reimbursable out of any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $14,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, and to expend the same for all purposes necessary for the operation and maintenance of pumping plants and for the drilling of wells and installation of additional primping plants for the irrigation of lands on the said reservation: Provided, That the sum so used shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $8,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Indians of the Fort Apache
Reservation in Arizona, to be immediately available, and to expend the same, in connection with the sum of $7,500 of the funds appropriated in this Act for Indian school and agency buildings, for completing the reconstruction, repair, and improvement of the power plant and irrigation system on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona, as provided for in the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 11): Provided, That the tribal funds so expended shall be reimbursed to the tribe by the Indians benefited under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: And provided further, That the sum of $7,500 of the amount appropriated in this Act for Indian school and agency buildings is hereby set apart and reserved for this purpose, and shall be immediately available.
For continuing the construction of the necessary canals and structures to carry the natural flow of the Gila River to the Indian lands of the Gila River Indian Reservation and to public and private lands in Pinal County, reimbursable as provided in the Indian Appropriation Act approved May 18, 1916, $75,000, to be immediately available: Provided, however, That not exceeding $50,000 of the appropriations available for the construction of this project may be used in the purchase of such land, rights of way, constructed or partly constructed canals, and other physical properties deemed necessary by the Secretary of the Interior in connection with such project.
For an investigation by the Secretary of the Interior of the conditions with respect to the necessity of constructing a bridge across the Colorado River at or near Lees Ferry, Arizona, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose, and the said Secretary is hereby authorized and directed to cause surveys, plans, and reports to be made, together with an estimated limit of the cost of said bridge, and to submit same to Congress as soon as possible, with his recommendation as to what proportionate part of the cost of the construction of said bridge, if any, shall be paid by the United States, and if authorized to be paid, to be reimbursed from the tribal funds of the Navajo Indians.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to sell and convey at the appraised value of same at the time of sale the land and buildings known as United States Indian day school, located in the southwestern part of the city of Tucson, to school district No. 1, Pima County, Arizona, for use as a public school: Provided, That Indian children residing in that district shall be received therein at all times on equal terms with white children.
For the completion of the approaches to the bridges over the Little Colorado and Canyon Diablo Rivers, near the Leupp Indian Agency, Arizona, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, reimbursable from the tribal funds of the Navajo Indians, to be immediately available.
For support and civilization of Indians in California, including pay of employees, $42,000.
For the purchase of lands for the homeless Indians in California, including improvements thereon, for the use and occupancy
of said Indians, $10,000, said funds to be expended under such regulations and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior
may prescribe.
For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Sherman Institute, Riverside, California, including
pay of superintendent, $152,600; for general repairs and improvements, $15,000; in all, $167,600.
For reclamation and maintenance charge on Yuma allotments, $88,485, to be reimbursed from the sale of surplus lands or from other funds that may be available, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1063).
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Fort Bidwell Indian School, California, including pay of superintendent, $25,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $30,000.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Greenville Indian School; California, including pay of superintendent, $25,000; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all, $30,000.
For continuing the construction of a road from Hoopa to Weitchpec, on the Hoopa Valley Reservation, in Humboldt County, California, in conformity with plans approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000, to be reimbursed out of any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter placed to their credit in the Treasury of the United States, in accordance with the Indian Appropriation Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, pages 570 and 571).
For the improvement and construction of roads and bridges on the Yuma Indian Reservation in California, $10,000, reimbursable to the United States by the Indians having tribal rights on said reservation.
For relief of distress among the Seminole Indians in Florida and for purposes of their civilization and education, $7,000, including the construction and equipment of necessary buildings.
For support and civilization of Indians on the Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho, including pay of employees, $29,000.
For improvement, maintenance, and operation of the Fort Hall irrigation system, $50,000.
For fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Bannocks in Idaho: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer,
farmer, and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $4,500.
For the Coeur d’Alenes, in Idaho: For pay of blacksmith, carpenter, and physician, and purchase of medicines (article 11,
agreement ratified March 3, 1891), $3,000.
For the construction, maintenance, and operation of a drainage system for lands of the Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa, $10,000, payable from the tribal funds of such Indians: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into agreements, or make other suitable arrangements, with owners of adjacent lands benefited by the construction of such drainage system as will insure from such owners payment, on a per acre basis, of a proportionate part of the construction, operation, and maintenance of said drainage system.
For support and education of seven hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kansas, and for pay of superintendent, $152,600; for general repairs and improvements, $20,000; for new heating and power plant, $55,000; for repairs and construction of drain, ditches, and dikes on
the Haskell School farm, $18,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended; in all, $245,600.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, and for pay of superintendent, $80,750; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $90,750.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Pipestone, Minnesota, including pay of superindendent, $46,650; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for water supply, including laying of pipe line to connect with water system of city of Pipestone, $8,000; in all, $62,650.
For support of a school or schools for the Chippewas of the Mississippi in Minnesota (article 3, treaty of March 19, 1867), $4,000: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be used except for school or schools of the Mississippi Chippewas now in the State of Minnesota.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, and to expend the same in the construction of roads and bridges on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, in said State, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies, and the employment of labor: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, entitled " An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota," and to use the same for promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians exclusively for the purposes following: Not exeeding $45,000 of this amount may be expended for general agency purposes at the White Earth, Red Lake, and Leech Lake Agencies; not exceeding $20,000 may be expended, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in aiding in the construction, equipment, and maintenance of additional public schools in connection with, and under the control of, the public-school system of the State of Minnesota, said additional school buildings to be located at places contiguous to Indian children who are now without proper public-school facilities, said amount to be immediately available; not exceeding $15,000 may be expended in aiding indigent Chippewa Indians upon the condition that any funds used in support of a member of the tribe shall be reimbursed out of and become a lien against any individual property of which such member may now or hereafter become seized or possessed, and the Secretary of the Interior shall annually transmit to Congress at the commencement of each regular session a complete and detailed statement of such expenditures, the two preceding requirements not to apply to any old, infirm or indigent Indian, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior; not exceeding $20,000 may be expended for the support of the Indian hospitals at Fond du Lac, White Earth and Red Lake,
Minnesota: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, as soon as practicable, to turn over to the proper authorities of the State of Minnesota all hospital plants and equipment now or previously used in connection with the Chippewa Indian service the use of which is, or may hereafter become, unnecessary in connection with said service, conditioned upon said State first giving satisfactory assurance that said property will at all times be maintained and used by said State for public purposes and that the Chippewa Indians shall at all times be admitted to all State institutions upon the same terms as citizens of said State.
That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, in his discretion, the sum of $5,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the principal sum on deposit to the credit of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, arising under section 7 of the Act of January 14, 1889, and to use the same for payment to school district numbered six, Itasca County, Minnesota, for tuition of Chippewa Indian children attending school in said district during the fiscal year commencing with the year ended June 30, 1914, and ending June 30, 1920, inclusive.
For the relief of distress among the full-blood Choctaw Indians of Mississippi, including the pay of one special agent, who shall be a physician, one farmer, and one field matron, and other necessary administration expenses, $10,000; for their education by establishing, equipping, and maintaining day schools, including the purchase of land and the construction of necessary buildings, and their equipment, $25,000; for the purchase of lands, including improvements thereon, not exceeding eighty acres for any one family, for the use and occupancy of said Indians, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for its repayment to the United States under such rules and regulations as he may direct, $5,000; for the purpose of encouraging industry and self-support among said Indians and to aid them in building homes, in the culture of fruits, grains, cotton, and other crops, $10,000; which sum may be used for the purchase of seed, animals, machinery, tools, implements, and other equipment necessary, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, to enable said Indians to become self-supporting, to be expended under conditions to be prescribed by the said Secretary for its repayment to the United States on or before June 30, 1925; in all, $50,000.
For support and civilization of the Indians at Fort Belknap Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Flathead Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $20,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Peck Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $30,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Blackfeet Agency, Montana, including pay of employees, $65,000, of which sum $15,000
shall be immediately available.
For maintenance and operation, including repairs, of the irrigation systems on the Fort Belknap Reservation, in Montana,
$30,000, reimbursable in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1910.
For fulfilling treaties with Crows, Montana: For pay of physician, $1,200; and for pay of carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer,
and blacksmith (article 10, treaty of May 7, 1868), $2,580; for pay of second blacksmith (article 8, same treaty), $720; in
all, $4,500.
For subsistence and civilization of the Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes (agreement with the Sioux Indians, approved February 28, 1877), including Northern Cheyennes removed from Pine Ridge Agency to Tongue River, Montana, and for pay of physician, two teachers, two carpenters, one miller, two farmers, a blacksmith, and engineer (article 7, treaty of May 10, 1868), $75,000.
For the support and civilization of the Rocky Boy Band of Chippewas, and other indigent and homeless Indians in the State
of Montana, including pay of employees, $7,000.
For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in
Montana, $200,000 (reimbursable), to be immediately available and to remain available until expended.
For maintenance and operation of the irrigation systems on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, in Montana, $20,000 (reimbursable).
For continuing construction, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in
Montana, $30,000 (reimbursable).
The sum of $200,000 of any tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Crow Indians in the State of Montana, is hereby appropriated for improvement, maintenance, and operation of the irrigation systems on the Crow Reservation, Montana, including maintenance assessments payable to the Two Leggings Water Users’ Association, and including the proportionate part of the cost of constructing the Bozeman trail ditch on the Crow Reservation, Montana, properly assessable against lands allotted to the Indians irrigable thereunder, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used for the purpose indicated, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior. Of said appropriation of $200,000 the sum of $150,000 shall be available for construction of a diversion dam on the Big Horn River, and $50,000 for maintenance and operation of said irrigation systems.
For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Interior to settle all unpaid claims against the United States Government to funds derived from sale of patented Indian lands in the Bitter Root Valley, Montana, under the provisions of the Act of March 2, 1889 (Twenty-fifth Statutes at Large, page 871), entitled "An Act to provide for the sale of lands patented to certain members of the Flathead Band of Indians in Montana Territory, and for other purposes," $1,124.67, the same to be immediately available.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to issue patent to school district numbered nine of Glacier County, Montana, for block thirty-five in Browning town site in the former Blackfeet Indian Reservation, upon filing its application therefor, said block to be used and maintained for public school purposes: Provided, That Indian children shall at all times be received in the school maintained on said block thirty-five for public school purposes on equal terms with white children.
For the construction of that portion of the highway from Yellowstone National Park to Glacier National Park within the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Montana, $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and reimbursable from any fund of said Blackfeet Tribe that may be now or hereafter placed in the Treasury of the United States to their credit.1
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Genoa, Nebraska, including pay of superintendent, $82,000; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $92,000.
For support and civilization of Indians in Nevada, including pay of employees, $18,500.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Carson City, Nevada, including pay of superintendent,
$82,000; for general repairs and improvements, $12,000; for improvement of domestic water supply and irrigation system, $5,000;
in all, $99,000.
For improvements, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada, $3,000, reimbursable
from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the irrigation system on the Moapa River Reservation, Nevada, $3,500, reimbursable
from any funds of the Indians of this reservation now or hereafter available.
For reclamation and maintenance charges on lands allotted to Paiute Indians within the Truckee-Carson project, Nevada, $8,000,
reimbursable from any funds of the Indians now or hereafter available.
For support and civilization of Indians in New Mexico, including pay of employees, $140,000.
For support and education of five hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent,
$102,400; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; for enlarging and improving sewer system, $8,000, to be immediately
available, and the amount of $7,000 heretofore appropriated for this purpose shall be available until expended; in all, $120,400.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Sante Fe, New Mexico, and for pay of superintendent,
$82,400; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for water supply, $3,000; in all, $93,400.
For continuing the reconstruction and for operation and maintenance of the irrigation system for the Laguna Indians in New Mexico, $8,000, reimbursable by the Indians benefited, under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For continuing the sinking of wells on Pueblo Indian land, New Mexico, to provide water for domestic and stock purposes, and for building tanks, troughs, pipe lines, and other necessary structures for the utilization of such water, $15,000.
For continuing road and bridge construction on the Mescalero Indian Reservation, in New Mexico, including the purchase of material, equipment, and supplies; the employment of labor; and the cost of surveys, plans, and estimates, if necessary, $15,000, to be reimbursed from any funds of the Indians of said reservation now or hereafter on deposit in the Treasury of the United States: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the drainage of Pueblo Indian land in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico, in connection with operations for the drainage of lands in white owner-
ship, in accordance with the provision contained in section 13 of the Act approved February 14, 1920 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 423), $5,000, reimbursable in accordance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For improvement, operation, and maintenance of the Hogback irrigation project on that part of the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico under the jurisdiction of the San Juan Indian School, $8,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For painting and repairing the steel bridges across the Rio Grande at Isleta and San Felipe, under the southern pueblo jurisdiction, New Mexico, which said bridges were constructed from an appropriation contained in the Indian Act for the fiscal year 1912 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1062), $8,000.
For the reconstruction of one of the approaches to the steel bridge across the San Juan River at Farmington, New Mexico, which said approach has been destroyed by high water, the bridge having been originally constructed with an appropriation of $25,000 made by the Act of February 20, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 926), $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the pay of one special attorney for the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, to be designated by the Secretary of the Interior, and for necessary traveling expenses of said attorney, $3,000, or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Interior may deem necessary.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized in his discretion, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, to accept reconveyances to the Government of privately owned and State school lands, and relinquishments of valid homestead entries or other filings, including Indian allotment selections, within any township of the public domain in San Juan, McKinley, and Valencia, Counties, New Mexico, and to permit lieu selections by those surrendering their rights so that the holdings of any claimant within any township wherein such reconveyances or relinquishments are made may be consolidated and held in solid areas: Provided, That the title or claim of any person who refuses to reconvey to the Government shall not be hereby affected.
For fulfilling treaties with Senecas of New York: For permanent annuity in lieu of interest on stock (Act of February 19,
1831), $6,000.
For fulfilling treaties with Six Nations of New York: For permanent annuity, in clothing and other useful articles (article
6, treaty of November 11, 1794), $4,500.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school at Cherokee, North Carolina, including pay of superintendent, $40,000; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $50,000.
For support and civilization of the Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, including pay of employees, $5,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Fort Berthold Agency, in North Dakota, including pay of employees, $14,500.
For support and civilization of Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewas North Dakota, including pay of employees, $16,000.
For support and education of one hundred and twenty-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Bismarck, North Dakota, including pay of superintendent, $29,725; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $35,725: Provided, That not exceeding $6,000 of the amount reappropriated by the Indian Appropriation Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 577), for employees’ quarters may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be used for the purchase of the Baker cottage and lands adjoining the Bismarck Indian School grounds.
For support and education of four hundred Indian pupils at Fort Totten Indian School, Fort Totten, North Dakota, and for
pay of superintendent, $82,000; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $90,000.
For support and education of two hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, and pay of superintendent,
$46,800; for general repairs and improvements, $7,000; in all, $53,800.
For support and civilization of the Wichitas and affiliated bands who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $4,800.
The sum of $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, for the support of the agency and pay of employees maintained for their benefit.
The sum of $250,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes of Indians in Oklahoma, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to pay out the same for the benefit of the members of said tribes for their maintenance and support and improvement of their homesteads for the ensuing year and in such manner and under such regulations as he may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress on the first Monday in December, 1922, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.
The sum of $35,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, who have been collected on the reservations set apart for their use and occupation in Oklahoma, for the support of said Indians and pay of employees maintained for their benefit.
For support and civilization of the Kansas Indians, Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $1,500.
For support and civilization of the Kickapoo Indians in Oklahoma, including pay of employees, $1,800.
For support and civilization of the Ponca Indians in Oklahoma and Nebraska, including pay of employees, $8,000.
For support and education of five hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Chilocco, Oklahoma, including pay
of superintendent, $94,600; for general repairs and improvements, $15,000; the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to report to Congress at the beginning of the next regular session what necessity
there is, if any, for new buildings and the enlargement and remodeling of present buildings at the Chilocco Indian School,
Oklahoma, and if he finds such necessity to exist to make such recommendations therefor as he may deem appropriate together
with a statement of the cost of carrying them into effect; in all, $109,600.
For fulfilling treaties with Pawnees, Oklahoma: For perpetual annuity, to be paid in cash to the Pawnees (article 3, agreement of November 23, 1892), $30,000; for support of two manual-labor schools (article 3, treaty of September 24, 1857), $10,000; for pay of one farmer, two blacksmiths, one miller, one engineer and apprentices, and two teachers (article 4, same treaty), $5,400; for purchase of iron and steel and other necessaries for the shops (article 4, same treaty), $500; for pay of physician and purchase of medicines,$1,200; in all, $47,100.
For support of Quapaws, Oklahoma: For education (article 3, treaty of May 13, 1833), $1,000; for blacksmith and assistants, and tools, iron, and steel for blacksmith shop (same article and treaty), $500; in all, $1,500: Provided, That the President of the United States shall certify the same to be for the best interests of the Indians.
The sum of $45,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the money on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma, to be expended for the support, education, and systematic vocational instruction of Osage children: Provided, That the expenditure of said money shall include the renewal of the present contract with the Saint Louis Mission Boarding School, except that there shall not be expended more than $300 for annual support and education of any one pupil.
The sum of $100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma for the support of the Osage Agency and pay of tribal officers, the tribal attorney and his stenographer, and employees of said agency: Provided, That $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated shall be immediately available.
Fifty-five thousand dollars of the funds on deposit to the credit of the Osage Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma is hereby appropriated for necessary expenses in connection with oil and gas production on the Osage Reservation, including salaries of employees, rent of quarters for employees, traveling expenses, printing, telegraphing and telephoning, and purchase, repair, and operation of automobiles.
That the provision in the Indian Appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, authorizing the expenditure of not exceeding $50,000 from unexpended Osage tribal funds heretofore appropriated for construction of a fireproof office building for Osage Agency is hereby amended to provide that not exceeding $100,000 of such unexpended Osage tribal funds may be used in the construction of such fireproof building, including the removal of the present office building and rearrangement of the interior of same for employees’ quarters, said amount to be immediately available.
The use of the sum of $10,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available, is hereby authorized from funds belonging to the Osage Tribe to defray expenses heretofore or hereafter incurred in connection with visits to Washington, District of Columbia, by the Osage Tribal Council and other members of said tribe, when duly authorized or approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
That the provisions contained in the Indian Appropriation Act approved March 2, 1917 (Thirty-ninth Statutes at Large, page 983), authorizing the use of $5,000 of Osage tribal funds for appraisement of lands in Osage County, Oklahoma, for the purpose of adjustment and settlement of claims for or on behalf of any Osage Indian with respect to assessments theretofore or thereafter made, is hereby amended to provide that an additional sum of not exceeding $17,500 is hereby appropriated from Osage tribal funds for the purpose of employing expert accountants, clerks, and special attorneys, under the direction of the Department of Justice, in pending suits in the
Federal courts on behalf of Osage Indians in connection with such assessments, such amounts, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior.
For expenses of administration of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, and the compensation of employees, $190,000: Provided, That a report shall be made to Congress on the first Monday of December, 1922, by the Superintendent for the Five Civilized Tribes through the Secretary of the Interior, showing in detail the expenditure of all moneys appropriated by this provision.
Eight thousand dollars from the Choctaw and Chicksaw tribal funds to defray the expenses of per capita payments to the enrolled members of such tribes.
For salaries and expenses of such attorneys and other employees as the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, deem necessary in probate matters affecting restricted allottees or their heirs in the Five Civilized Tribes and in the several tribes of the Quapaw Agency, and for the costs and other necessary expenses incident to suits instituted or conducted by such attorneys, $50,000.
For the support, continuance, and maintenance of the Cherokee Orphan Training School, near Tahlequah, Oklahoma, for the orphan Indian children of the State of Oklahoma belonging to the restricted class, to be conducted as an industrial school under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $45,000; for repairs and improvements, $8,000; for dining hall and equipment, $40,000; in all, $93,000.
The sum of $175,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, in aid of the common schools in the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nations and the Quapaw Agency in Oklahoma, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be subject to the limitation in section 1 of the Act of May 25, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes, page 564), limiting the expenditure of money to educate children of less than one-fourth Indian blood.
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to use not exceeding $7,500 of the proceeds of sales of unallotted lands and other tribal property belonging to any of tile Five Civilized Tribes for payment of salaries of employees and other expenses of advertising and sale in connection with the further sales of such tribal lands and property, including the advertising and sale of the land within the segregated coal and asphalt area of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, or of the surface thereof, as provided for in the Act approved February 19, 1912, entitled "An Act to provide for the sale of the surface of the segregated coal and asphalt lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, and for other purposes" (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 67), and of the improvements thereon, which is hereby expressly authorized, and for other work necessary to a final settlement of the affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 of such amount may be used in connection with the collection of rents of unallotted lands and tribal buildings: Provided further, That, hereafter no money shall be expended from tribal funds belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes without specific appropriation by Congress, except as follows: Equalization of allotments, per capita and other payments authorized by law to individual members of the respective tribes, tribal and other Indian schools for the current fiscal year under existing law, salaries and contingent expenses of governors, chiefs, assistant chiefs, secretaries, interpreters, and mining trustees of the tribes for the
current fiscal year at salaries at the rate heretofore paid, and one attorney each for the Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Creek Tribes employed under contract approved by the President, under existing law, for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to continue during the ensuing fiscal year the tribal and other schools among the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Tribes from the tribal funds of those nations, within his discretion and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: And provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby empowered, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, to expend funds of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole Nations available for school purposes under existing law for such repairs, improvements, or new buildings as he may deem essential for the proper conduct of the several schools of said tribes. For repair of barn building at Mekusukey Academy, Seminole Nation, Oklahoma, $1,000, payable out of the funds of the Seminole Tribe.
For fulfilling treaties with Choctaws, Oklahoma: For permanent annuity (article 2, treaty of November 16, 1805, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $3,000; for permanent annuity for support of light horsemen (article 13, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for support of blacksmith (article 6, treaty of October 18, 1820, and article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $600; for permanent annuity for education (article 2, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $6,000; for permanent annuity for iron and steel (article 9, treaty of January 20, 1825, and article 13, treaty of June 22, 1855), $320; in all, $10,520.
For support and civilization of Indians of the Klamath Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $5,750, payable from tribal
funds of said Indians.
For support and civilization of the confederated tribes and bands under Warm Springs Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees,
$4,000, to be reimbursed under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For support and civilization of the Indians of the Umatilla Agency, Oregon, including pay of employees, $3,000, payable from
tribal funds of said Indians.
For support and education of six hundred Indian pupils, including native Indian pupils brought from Alaska, at the Indian
school, Salem, Oregon, including pay of superintendent, $122,400; for general repairs and improvements, $25,000; for heating
plant, $40,000; in all, $187,400.
For support and civilization of Indians at Grande Ronde and Siletz Agencies, Oregon, including pay of employees, $2,500.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States the sums of $10,000 of any
tribal funds on deposit to the credit of the Klamath Indians in the State of Oregon and to expend the same for improvement,
maintenance, and operation of the Modoc Point, Sand Creek, Fort Creek. Crooked Creek, and miscellaneous irrigation projects
on the Klamath Reservation, said sum, or such part thereof as may be used, to be reimbursed to the tribe under such rules
and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For support and education of three hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Flandreau, South Dakota, and for
pay of superintendent, $80,750; for general repairs and improvements, $10,000; in all, $90,750.
For support and education of two hundred and fifty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Pierre, South Dakota, including
pay of superintendent, $58,250; for general repairs and improvements, $6,000; in all, $64,250.
For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, including
pay of superintendent, $63,875; for general repairs and improvements, including construction and repair of roads, $8,000;
for completing new school building and assembly hall, $5,000; for equipment of dining hall and kitchen, new school building
and assembly hall, $5,000; in all, $81,875.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota: For pay of
five teachers, one physician, one carpenter, one miller, one engineer, two farmers, and one blacksmith (article 13, treaty of April 29, 1868), $10,400; for pay of second blacksmith, and furnishing iron, steel, and
other material (article 8 of same treaty), $1,600; for pay of additional employees of the several agencies for the Sioux in Nebraska, North Dakota,
and South Dakota, $95,000; for subsistence of the Sioux and for purposes of their civilization (Act of February 28, 1877), $273,000:
Provided, That this sum shall include transportation of supplies from the termination of railroad or steamboat transportation, and
in this service Indians shall be employed whenever practicable; in all, $380,000.
For support and maintenance of day and industrial schools among the Sioux Indians, including the erection and repairs of
school buildings, $200,000, in accordance with the provisions of article 5 of the agreement made and entered into September
26, 1876, and ratified February 28, 1877 (Nineteenth Statutes, page 254).
For subsistence and civilization of the Yankton Sioux, South Dakota, including pay of employees, $8,000.
For the equipment and maintenance of the asylum for insane Indians at Canton, South Dakota, for incidental and all other
expenses necessary for its proper conduct and management, including pay of employees, repairs, improvement, and for necessary
expense of transporting insane Indians to and from said asylum, $40,000.
For education of Alabama and Coushatta Indians in Polk County, Texas, $5,000.
For support and civilization of Confederated Bands of Utes: For pay of two carpenters, two millers, two farmers, and two blacksmiths (article 15, treaty of March 2, 1868), $6,720; for pay of two teachers (same article and treaty), $1,800; for purchase of iron and steel and the necessary tools for blacksmith shop (article 9, same treaty), $220; for annual amount for the purchase of beef, mutton, wheat flour, beans, and potatoes, or other necessary articles of food and clothing, and farming equipment (article 12, same treaty), $26,260; for pay of employees at the several Ute agencies, $15,000; in all, $50,000.
For the support and civilization of Indians in Utah, not otherwise provided for, including pay of employees, $6,000.
The sum of $325,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, the sum of $75,000 of said amount for the benefit of the Ute Mountain (formerly Navajo Springs) Band of said Indians in Colorado, and the sum of $175,000 of said amount for the Uintah, White River, and Uncompahgre Bands of Ute Indians in Utah, and the sum of $75,000 of said amount for the Southern Ute Indians in Colorado, which sums shall be charged to said bands, and the Secretary of the Interior is also authorized to withdraw from the Treasury the accrued interest to and including June 30, 1921, on the funds of the said Confederated Bands of Ute Indians appropriated under the Act of March 4, 1913 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 934), and to expend or distribute the same for the purpose of promoting civilization and self-support among the said Indians, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall report to Congress, on the first Monday in December, 1922, a detailed statement as to all moneys expended as provided for herein.
The sum of $150,000 is hereby appropriated out of the principal funds to the credit of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians for continuing the construction of lateral distributing systems to irrigate the allotted lands of the Uncompahgre, Uintah, and White River Utes in Utah, and to maintain existing irrigation systems authorized under the Act of June 21, 1906.
For the aid of the public schools in Uintah and Duchesne County school districts, Utah, $6,000, to be expended under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That Indian children shall at all times be admitted to such schools on an entire equality with white children.
That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to convey to the State of Utah all the right, title, and interest which the
United States has in and to the bridge across the Duchesne River near the town of Myton, and to convey to the county of Duchesne in said State the bridge
across the Duchesne River near the town of Duchesne, which said bridges were constructed with appropriations contained in
the acts of August 5, 1909 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 124), and March 3, 1911 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1074):
Provided, That the State of Utah and county of Duchesne consent to this arrangement and agree to at all times in the future maintain,
repair, and keep in good condition said bridges, free from all expense to the United States or the Indians of the Uintah and
Ouray Reservation in Utah.
For support and civilization of the D’Wamish and other allied tribes in Washington, including pay of employees, $6,500.
For support and civilization of the Makahs, including pay of employees, $2,000.
For support and civilization of Qui-nai-elts and Quil-leh-utes, including pay of employees, $1,000.
For support and civilization of Indians at Yakima Agency, including pay of employees, $3,000, payable out of tribal funds
of said Indians.
For support and civilization of Indians at Colville, Taholah, Puyallup, and Spokane Agencies, including pay of employees,
and for purchase of agricultural implements, and support and civilization of Joseph’s Band of Nez Perce Indians in Washington, $12,000.
For support of Spokanes in Washington (article 6 of agreement with said Indians, dated March 18, 1887, ratified by Act of July 13, 1892), $1,000.
For continuing construction and enlargement of the Wapato irrigation and drainage system, to make possible the utilization of the water supply provided by the Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 604), for forty acres of each Indian allotment under the Wapato irrigation project on the Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, and such other water supply as may be available or obtainable for the irrigation of a total of one hundred and twenty thousand acres of allotted Indian lands on said reservation, $250,000, of which sum $50,000 shall be immediately avialable: Provided, That the entire cost of said irrigation and drainage system shall be reimbursed to the United States under the conditions and terms of the Act of May 18, 1916: Provided further, That the funds hereby appropriated shall be available for the reimbursement of Indian and white landowners for improvements and crops destroyed by the Government in connection with the construction of irrigation canals and drains of this project.
For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Toppenish-Simcoe irrigation system, on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, reimbursable as provided by the Act of June 30, 1919 (Forty-first Statutes at Large, page 28), $5,000.
For the completion of the road on the Quiniault Reservation, Washington, for which $22,500 was appropriated by the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, page 588), $6,000, reimbursable from the tribal funds of said Indians on the same terms and conditions as provided in said Act.
For operation and maintenance, including repairs, of the Ahtanum irrigation system on the Yakima Reservation, Washington, $3,000, reimbursable under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
For the support and education of two hundred and thirty Indian pupils at the Indian school at Hayward, Wisconsin, including
pay of superintendent, $53,350; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; in all, $61,350.
For support and education of two hundred and seventy-five Indian pupils at the Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, including
pay of superintendent, $63,875; for general repairs and improvements, $8,000; for completion of additions to school building
and girls’ building and equipment for same, $8,000; in all, $79,875.
For support and civilization of the Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, including pay of employees, $7,000.
For support, education, and civilization of the Pottawatomie Indians who reside in the State of Wisconsin, including pay of
employees, $6,000.
For the purchase of subsistence supplies in relieving cases of actual distress and suffering among those needy Saint Croix Indians of Wisconsin whose cases are referred to in report of January 30, 1915, transmitted by the Secretary of the Interior to the House of Representatives March 3, 1915, pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, pages 582 to 605), and printed as House Document Numbered 1663, Sixty-third Congress, third session, $1,000.
That to carry out the provisions of the Chippewa treaty of September 30, 1854 (Tenth Statutes at Large, page 1109), there is hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $10,000, in part settlement of the amount, $141,000, found due and heretofore approved for the Saint Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, whose names appear on the final roll prepared by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Act of August 1, 1914 (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, pages 582 to 605), and contained in House Document Numbered 1663, said sum of $10,000 to be expended in the purchase of land or for the benefit of said Indians by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Provided, That in the discretion of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the per capita share of any of said Indians under this appropriation, and under a like appropriation of $10,000 made for the same purpose, in the Act approved February 14, 1920, may be paid in cash.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to withdraw from the Treasury of the United States, so much as may be necessary of the tribal funds of the Menominee Indians of Wisconsin, arising under the Acts of June 12, 1890 (Twenty-sixth Statutes, page 146), and March 28, 1908 (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page 51), and to make therefrom a per capita payment or distribution of not to exceed $50 to such Indians entitled thereto under such rule and regulations as he may prescribe. And the authority granted in this paragraph shall be effective immediately upon the approval of this Act.
For support and civilization of Shoshone Indians in Wyoming, including pay of employees, $15,000, payable out of tribal funds
of said Indians.
For support and education of one hundred Indian pupils at the Indian school, Shoshone Reservation, Wyoming, including pay
of superintendent, $27,500; for general repairs and improvements, $5,000; in all $32,500.
For support of Shoshones in Wyoming: For pay of physician, teacher, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmith (article
10, treaty of July 3, 1868), $4,000; for pay of second blacksmith, and such iron and steel and other materials as may be required,
as per article 8, same treaty, $1,000; in all, $5,000.
For continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in
Wyoming, including the Big Wind River and Dry Creek Canals, and including the maintenance and operation of completed canals,
$75,000, reimbursable as provided by existing law.
For continuing the work of constructing roads and bridges within the diminished Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, in Wyoming,
$15,000, said sum to be reimbursed from any funds which are now or may hereafter be placed in the Treasury to the credit of
said Indians, to remain a charge and lien upon the lands and funds of said Indians until paid.
That in addition to the Indian tribal and treaty funds, the expenditure of which is specifically authorized elsewhere in this Act, and such sums as may be required for equalization of allotments, education of Indian children, per capita and other payments to Indians, reimbursement to the United States of the expenditures from reimbursable appropriations, and expenditures for the Five Civilized Tribes, in accordance with existing laws, the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized to expend not exceeding $1,222,004 from the funds held by the United States in trust for
the respective tribes for support and civilization of the Indians under the jurisdiction of the following agencies, to wit:
Arizona: Colorado River, $4,250; Fort Apache, $75,000; Fort Mojave, $2,450; Kaibab, $2,000; Leupp, $510; San Carlos, $100,000;
Salt River, $4,500; Truxton Canyon, $15,000.
California: Capitan Grande, $1,500; Hoopa Valley, $3,000; Malki, $160; Round Valley, $8,020; Tule River, $1,500.
Colorado: Southern Ute, $3,000; Ute Mountain, $8,000.
Idaho: Coeur d’Alene, $15,058; Fort Hall, $16,250; Fort Lapwai, $15,000.
Iowa: Sac and Fox, $2,080.
Kansas: Kickapoo, $688; Pottawatomie, $3,570.
Michigan: Mackinac, $100.
Minnesota: Red Lake, $5,000; White Earth, $1,400.
Montana: Blackfeet, $40,000; Crow, $150,000; Flathead, $20,000; Fort Belknap, $35,000; Rocky Boy, $8,400; Tongue River,
$25,000.
Nebraska: Omaha, $9,500; Winnebago, $2,875.
Nevada: Fort McDermitt, $674; Nevada, $5,400; Walker River, $6,700; Western Shoshone, $15,000.
New Mexico: Jicarilla, $75,000; Mescalero, $30,000; Northern Pueblos, $880; Pueblo Bonito, $1,300; San Juan, $2,670.
North Carolina: Eastern Cherokee, $5,000.
North Dakota: Fort Berthold, $25,000; Standing Rock, $75,000.
Oklahoma: Kiowa, $19,800; Seger, $176; Pawnee, $500; Otoe, $700; Seneca, $500; Sac and Fox, $2,500.
Oregon: Klamath, $75,000; Umatilla, $9,200; Warm Springs, $2,554.
South Dakota: Cheyenne River, $100,000; Crow Creek, $525; Lower Brule, $5,000; Rosebud, $5,000; Sisseton, $5,000.
Utah: Goshute, $6,264; Uintah, $20,000.
Washington: Colville, $30,000; Quinaielt, $1,850; Spokane, $4,000; Yakima, $22,000.
Wisconsin: Lac du Flambeau, $10,000; Keshena (Menominee),
$30,000.
Wyoming: Shoshone, $50,000.
That section 1 of the Act of Congress approved March 2, 1895 (Twenty-eighth Statutes at Large, page 907), in so far as the same relates to the allotments of land to the Quapaw Indians and to restrictions against alienation of said allotments, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to provide that the restrictions which now exist against the alienation of the lands allotted to and allotted lands inherited by the Quapaw Indians named in the letter of January 15, 1921, of the Secretary of the Interior, to wit: John Beaver, Mah-hunk-a-zhe-ka, now Beaver; Anna Beaver, now Bear; Arthur Buffalo, Lizzie Cedar, Peter Clabber, Minnie Greenback, now Clabber; Harry Crawfish, Thomas Crawfish, Mary Crawfish, now Skye; Francis Quapaw Goodeagle, Wat-tah-nah-zhe Goodeagle, Khah-Daah, or Grandeagle, now Quapaw; Antoine Greenback, Joseph Greenback, Ho-hom-me, or Goodeagle; Mis-kah-get-tah, Amos Newhouse, John Quapaw, Nellie J. Ball, now Quapaw; Ta-mee-heh, or Quapaw; Benjamin Quapaw, Solomon Quapaw, Frances Quapaw, now Gokey; Julia Stafford, now Shapp; Hah-dah-ska-tun-ka, or Track; Mes-kah-tun-ka, or Track, now Slagle; Flora Young Greenback, now Whitebird; James Xavier, Anna Xavier, now Collins; Wah-she-mah-tah-het Track, now Martha Track Quapaw; Henry Buffalo, Clara May Buffalo, Hazel L. Buffalo, now McDunner; Nora Buffalo, now Brook; William Buffalo, James Amos Valliere; Georgia Alice Valliere, now Hampton; Iva Amelia Valliere, Jesse Daylight, Clayton C. Daylight, Emma Louise Blansett, Alphonso Greenback, junior,
Lulu May Greenback, Mary Mollie Greenback, Amy Greenback, Woodrow Wilson Greenback, John Greenback, Alphonso Greenback, senior, Beatrice C. Peters, now Shapp; Juanita Alma Dawes, Agnes Track, Dennis Wilson, Erwin Wilson, Martin Wilson, Mary Wilson, Louise Wilson, Robert A Whitebird, Helene Irene Whitebird, Thomas Xavier, Elnora Quapaw, and Lucy Lottson Beaver; and including any Quapaw allotted or inherited lands in which any of the said named Indians have any undivided interests, be, and the same are hereby extended for the further and additional period of twenty-five years from the date of this Act: Provided, however, That the Secretary of the Interior may, with of without application of the Indian owner remove such restrictions, wholly or in part, after he has found such Indian owner to be as competent as the average white man to conduct his own business affairs with benefit to himself, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe in regard thereto, and concerning terms of sale and disposal of the proceeds for the benefit of the respective Indians: Provided further, That all said lands allotted to or inherited by the Quapaw Indians may, when subject to restrictions against alienation, be leased for mining purposes for such period of time and under such rules, regulations, terms, and conditions only as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and said lands while restricted against alienation may be leased for mining purposes only as provided herein: And Provided further, That the production of minerals on said lands may be taxed by the State of Oklahoma in all respects the same as that produced on unrestricted lands, and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be paid from out of the individual Indian funds held under his supervision, belonging to the Indian owner of the land, the tax so assessed against the royalty interests of the respective Indian owner in such production: Provided, however, That such tax shall not become a lien or charge of any kind or character against the land or other property of said Indian owner.1
That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to Clarence W. Turner and Mrs. William B. Hord, widow of William B. Hord, deceased, one-half to each, out of any funds in the Treasury of the United States belonging to the Creek Nation, the sum of $6,967.50, being in full settlement of the claim of the said Clarence W. Turner and William B. Hord, deceased, against the said Creek Nation growing out of services performed by them under an act of the National Council of the Creek Nation approved January 31, 1895.
Approved, March 3, 1921.
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