Not all the Indians living on this list of townships have been enumerated. Besides, township 16 north, ranges 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 west, New Mexico, also belong to this jurisdiction. According to the census taken in 1915, 480 families, 2,134 persons, live off the reservation within the Fort Defiance jurisdiction. They have: 61,020 sheep, 16,822 goats, 1,130 cattle, 2,955 horses, 220 burros, and 45 mules-44 sheep, or their equivalent, to the person, or 220 sheep to the family. Of these Indians, 295 have been allotted, by Mr. Peterson, in Arizona; 141, by Mr. Williams, in New Mexico; 186, about, by the superintendent, in Arizona and New Mexico; 296, about, by Mr. Kent, in New Mexico; and 44 by by Mr. A. W. Simington. From the above statistics it may be seen that these townships are stocked beyond their capacity by Indian stock and support a larger number of Indians. While one township supports a number of Navajo families, an American stockman would not attempt to use less than a township to make a living by stock raising. The reasons which prompted Congress to appropriate $10,000 to assist these Navajos and those living under similar and worse conditions under the pueblo Bonito, Leupp and Zuni (Ramah district) superintendencies, in leasing, persist, and I urge that this appropriation be continued. Since the New Mexico Cattle and Horse Growers' Association will have a meeting at Gallup on the 17th instant, and intend to urge before your committee that the Indian live stock (and, consequently, the Indians) in New Mexico be put back on the reservation, I beg to state that the 15,000 Navajos living in New Mexico have but 1,980,637 acres on the reservation in New Mexico. If put back on the reservation in New Mexico, each person would have 132 acres, or about a section of land to the family, whilst the 15,000 Navajos living in Arizona have 8,549,393 acres on the reservation, i. e., about 570 acres to the person. The inevitable result of moving the 5,000 Navajos off the reservation in New Mexico on the reservation would be that about 4,000 of them would have to be moved on the reservation in Arizona, from which they would pour down into the public domain in Arizona. Let New Mexico take care of its Indians as Arizona does and not unload them upon a neighboring State. If the Indians making a living by stock raising numbering over 2,000 within the Pueblo Bonito Agency had been white stockmen, using the range to its full capacity and making a bare living, and the few stockmen, who are now trying to oust these Indians had made the attempt to oust 2,000 whites, where would they have landed? PETER PAQUETTE, Supt. Allowances of supplies for fiscal years 1920 and 1921, estimate of supplies for 1921 and actual requirements for 1921, as called for by the rules for the Indian School Service. Allowances of supplies for fiscal years 1920 and 1921, etc.-Continued. Allowances of supplies for fiscal years 1920 and 1921, etc.—Continued. STATEMENT OF MR. CHARLIE MITCHELL. Mr. HAYDEN. Ask the witness if he has any statement he would like to make about the condition of the Navajo Indians. Mr. DODGE. Yes. Mr. HAYDEN. What is your rank in the tribe? Mr. MITCHELL (interpreted by Henry Chee Dodge). I am one of the chiefs, one of the head men of the Navajo Reservation. Mr. HAYDEN. Proceed in your own way. Mr. MITCHELL. We have been wishing to see such a committee as you gentlemen for some years. I have a great deal to talk about. There are many of us here. We have come to see you, and I represent what they want. Mr. HAYDEN. Proceed. Mr. MITCHELL. Quite a number of Indians wish to state why they went poor. There is not enough here to support the full tribe; and if they had a little bit more of land than what they have now, it would probably support the whole tribe, but at present it would not. It is a good-sized tribe, and they have had the "flu" about two years ago, but it is a good-sized tribe yet. These people live off of the reservation. Some live outside on the railroad land and some inside and some off of the reservation. The Navajos have been here for years before the railroad came into the country. It is our home and has been allotted to us, and they want it for the Navajos to live here. That is because the reservation is not big enough to support those that live on it. Lots of these white people always fight the Navajos and run them out, and all that sort of thing. Of course that is why they would have more room. They have not all the room that they want. The Navajos were here before they came here and want to live here. Mr. HAYDEN. The chairman wants to know from Mr. Mitchell whether the Navajo Tribe sends its children to school and why all of them do not go to school. Mr. MITCHELL. We are in favor of the schools. We want our children to be put to school. Mr. HAYDEN. Why do not more of them go to school? Mr. MITCHELL. We want the school, and, of course, we want more room to put our children in the school. Mr. HAYDEN. These schools are not big enough? Mr. MITCHELL. That is what I mean. Mr. HAYDEN. Why do not they send their children to Albuquerque and Santa Fe and such schools as that? Mr. MITCHELL. We do. Lots of them have gone to other reservation schools. The CHAIRMAN. Ninety-one of them. Mr. HAYDEN. Do you want them to go to Albuquerque and Santa Fe and Phoenix? Mr. MITCHELL. No; we want to have more buildings put up right here in our own country and have schools right at home. Mr. HAYDEN. The Indian Service says that the places where they can put schools in this country are very few. They have not water enough to have a school. Mr. MITCHELL. There are places where there is plenty of water, and you can put up fine school buildings. Mr. HAYDEN. The Indian Service tells us also that they can not have a day school, where the children could go back home to their parents at night, because the Navajos move around all the time with their flocks. [Applause.] Mr. MITCHELL. That is the very point I want to talk to you about. We have day schools among us, but these day schools do not amount |