This is the home of a modern Indian of the Hopi tribe. The ceiling construction has not changed for centuries and the floors are usually hard-packed earth, though some of the newer ones have linoleum covering. Behind the wall at the left are storage spaces. At night mattresses are taken from these spaces and spread on the floor. One modern cot is seen on the rear. (USIS PHOTOGRAPH) 10 acres to over 2,000,000 acres. Apparently, the majority of the large reservations contain much desert and infertile land. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is a huge organisation, dividing the country, for administrative purposes, into eleven geographical areas each with a large Area Office. These Area Offices among them control a total of about 60 Agencies together with various Field Offices. The number of employees is not shown, but must run into many thousands. The Bureau covers a wide range of activities. It is concerned with banking, collection and distribution of rents, control of land transactions, education, farming, forestry, health, irrigation, law enforcement, roads and welfare. And these are on no small scale. For example, the Bureau operates 61 hospitals and over 300 schools of varying grades. In effect, the Bureau is the whole of Government for most Indians. State Governments in all but a few cases have no jurisdiction whatsoever over Indians. Indian relationships are direct with the Federal Government, almost as if they were collectively a fortyninth state. Our interest in New Zealand must go in the direction of comparing the Indian position with that of the Maoris. The result of any comparison can be surmised fairly well from the Statement of the Committee of the need for ending the special segregated status of the Indians and for their assumption of the privileges and obligations of free citizens. It is clear that the nature of Indian administration is intensely paternal and bureaucratic and that the status of the Indians is verging on what we might describe as that of persons under disability. The general character of the administration is due, apparently to several essential features of long standing which tend themselves to militate against any slackening of Government leading strings. These are, I would say, the reservation idea, the communal ownership of much property; and the concept of the State as trustee for the Indians. The origin of these features is, of course,