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Excerpt from Thirty-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners: To the Secretary of the Interior, 1907
The entire Indian population of the United States is not greater than that of the District of Columbia. The total area of lands still reserved to the Indians is reater than the combined area of half a dozen of the States of the nion. The dangers and difficulties which surround attempts at legislation for the true welfare of the Indians are to no small degree connected still with the question of the land in Indian reservations, and the lands already allotted in severalty to Indians. The involved problems of ownership and administration of lands held in common, of great tracts of pasturage, of forest and timber lands, and of mines of minerals, oil and asphalt, still em barrass the administration of Indian affairs. The values involved in the resulting questions of the ultimate ownership and administra tion of Indian lands and mines can be estimated only in tens and hundreds of millions of dollars.
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