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of their partially awakened but untrained mind to seek activity and relief in the easily available excitement of gambling, the dance, or other disappations. Legitimate business avocations do not exist upon a reservation. These are only found in a community where the people are free to develop the resources of their country and to employ their mental energies in something more than merely getting food & raiment.

Happily a change is slowly approaching the reservation. Since legislation has opened the way to citizenship & individual ownership in tribal lands, henceforth the Indians future will depend upon his personal efforts. That these may be effective & bring prosperity to the people and the country wherein the tribes reside. Education is absolutely indispensible.

The Indian requires for the previous work & the competition which lies immediately before him an equipment beyond that afforded by primary schooling. The advanced conditions of our own race and times are factors in the life struggle now upon him. With us today a man can no longer plod and succeed. Machinery in intelligent hands enables one to far outstrip unaided efforts, and these mechanical