Service on the Indian Reservations, Being the Experiences of a Special Indian Agent While Inspecting Agencies and Serving as Agent for Various Tribes

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Excerpt from Service on the Indian Reservations, Being the Experiences of a Special Indian Agent While Inspecting Agencies and Serving as Agent for Various Tribes: Including Explanation of How the Government Service Is Conducted on the Reservations, Descriptions of Agencies, Anecdotes Illustrating the Habits, Customs, and Peculiarities of the Indians, And Humorous Anecdotes and Stories of Travel In the United States Indian service there are five Special Agents, five Inspectors and fifty-eight Agents. The Agents have personal supervision and control, within certain limitations, of all affairs on the various Reservations, and in many cases several separate Reservations, and several different tribes, or remnants of tribes, are under the jurisdiction of one Agency. The duty of the Special Agents and Inspectors is to visit and inspect the Agencies from time to time, and investigate all complaints concerning the Indians or affairs on the Reservations. Special Agents are also often detailed to serve as Agents for indefinite terms. The Special Agents are under the immediate direction and control of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Inspectors are in like manner subordinate to the Secretary of the Interior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.