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Excerpt from Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States, Vol. 2: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, Second Session, San Francisco, Calif.; Riverside, Calif. And Salt Lake City, Utah; November 19, 20, 22, 23, and 26, 1928
Before beginning the examination of witnesses Chauncey S. Good rich, Esq., the examining attorney, made the following statement: Mr. Chairman and Senator pine. W'e have felt that the under standing Of the testimony to come can be a little bit facilitated by a preliminary statement on those California conditions which make our problem very different, as we see it, from that of any other part of the country. The Indian in this section was probably more numer ous per area than elsewhere in the country, numbering perhaps when the Franciscan fathers came here 150 years ago, and numbering perhaps when the Americans came about 80 years ago, and now they are reduced to and the Conditions that have made that reduction and resulted in his deplorable economic condition to-day Seem to warrant some slight statement. 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.
