The medical relief work, like the preventive work, must be materially improved. Here again, more and better trained doctors and nurses are required. The plants of hospitals and sanatoria should be brought up at least to the recognized minimum standards for such institutions elsewhere. The practice of salvaging old buildings and converting them into hospitals should be discontinued unless they are in suitable locations and after alteration and repair will fully satisfy at least minimum standards and furnish facilities for efficient operation. The equipment should be reasonably complete. Hospitals and sanatoria should be administered by persons fitted by training and experience for that class of work. The per diem expenditure for maintenance should approximate what is spent in other federal hospitals, with due allowance for the additional costs that sometimes result from isolation. Patient labor should be utilized only when the physician certifies that it will not injure the patient and retard his cure. Additional expenditures for labor will be necessary not only to replace patient labor but also to provide for higher standards in maintenance.

primitive people.

(6) a specialist in vocational guidance and placement to aid Indians who wish to find employment in white communities.

The Children's Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the United States Employment Service of the Department of Labor have staffs of specialists who could be of great aid to the Indian Service if they were called in, and far greater use than at present could be made of the Department of Agriculture, especially the Bureau of Home Economics, and even of the Public Health Service

statement is sometimes made that, since the Indians live according to a low scale, it is not necessary for the government to furnish hospital facilities for them which are comparable with those supplied for poor white people in a progressive community.

The work of the government directed toward the education and advancement of the Indian himself, as distinguished from the control and conservation of his property, is largely ineffective.

In many sections the supply is inadequate, although in some jurisdictions, notably in the desert country of the Southwest, the government has materially improved the situation, an activity that is appreciated by the Indians.

The poverty of the Indians and their lack of adjustment to the dominant economic and social systems produce the vicious circle ordinarily found among any people under such circumstances.

Miracle

A Story about the Body

Swerve

And I’m always the one that has to fix it whenever something breaks.

I’m sorry I didn’t swerve, I didn’t get out of the way.

Some of the ears on the floor caught this scrap of his voice. Some of the ears on the floor were pressed to the ground

a sack used to bring groceries home.

say nothing.

The parrot said hello on the terrace. The colonel told it to shut up, and pushed himself from the table.

windows there were gratings like those in liquor stores.

Broken bottles were embedded in the walls around the house toscoop the kneecaps from a man’s legs or cut his hands to lace

a pistol on the cushion beside him.

His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. His daughter filed her nails, his son went out for the night.

Colonel

looked to be full of rose petals, but he found when he picked it up that the rose petals were on top; the rest of the bowl—she must have swept them from the corners of her studio—was full of dead bees.

When

Out spring the butterflies of recollection,And I think that for the first time I understandThe beautiful ordinary light of the patio And even perhaps the dark rich earth of a heart.

Sometimes a sad moon comes out and waters the roof tiles.But the years are gone. There are no more years

Into the black oblivion of a neighborhood and a world Without billboards or yesterdays

desolation of flower-bordered sidewalks

but the sheets were drenched and twisted.They were the very handkerchiefs of grief.

he beautiful ordinary light of the patio And even perhaps the dark rich earth of a heart

Nor does memory sleep. It goes on

he clocks are sorry, the clocks are very sad.One stops; one goes on striking the wrong hours

Now summer comes with its schoolboy trumpets and fountains,But the years are gone

Lament

but I don’t do it. I want to live

I want to go up to them and say Stop,don’t do it—she’s the wrong woman,he’s the wrong man, you are going to do thingsyou cannot imagine you would ever do

. I want to live.

you

My mother was the perfect surgeon’s wife.Even his body kept its secrets.I thought they would both live forever

I know more now that I did once.

I wonder just how much of mewill die with her, what were the wordsI could have been, or was.

flowing moreeasily from these other mouths.

To speak,now-foreign words I used to speak,

speak

Nani

I

never winter

When will I be most myself?I thought I’d always be their child

Even his body kept its secrets.I thought they would both live forever.

nly a single leaf had turned so far,Even his body kept its secrets

There is an age when you are most yourself

by

But love, I’ll concede this:whatever state you are, I’ll be that state’s bird,the loud, obvious blur of song people point towhen they wonder where it is you’ve gone

Was she falling for him out of sheer boredom—cooped up in this anything-but-humble dive, stone gargoyles leering and brocade drapes licked with fire?

B

Don't make me warn you of stars, how they see us from that distance as miniature and breakable

Speaking indifferently to him,who had driven out the coldand polished my good shoes as well.What did I know, what did I knowof love’s austere and lonely offices?

assimilate fully into white American culture.

upon making just compensation.

rovisions of this act shall not extend to the territory occupied by the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Osage, Miamies and Peorias, and Sacs and Foxes, in the Indian Territory, nor to any of the reservations of the Seneca Nation of New York Indians in the State of New York, nor to that strip of territory in the State of Nebraska adjoining the Sioux Nation on the south added by executive order.

shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws

actual settlers

just and equitable

patents shall be of the legal effect, and declare that the United States does and will hold the land thus allotted, for the period of twenty-five years,

To each head of a family

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight-six.