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ments, patents, leases, sales, conveyances, 

 cessions of land, or reservation of land 

 for Indian use, railroad rights of way and 

 damages; contracts with Indians for the 

 payment of money ; guardianship of mi- 

 nors; settlement of estates; trespassing on 

 Indian' reservations and the removal of 

 white persons therefrom; taxation; citi- 

 zenship and adoption into tribe, and all 

 legal questions growing out of relations 

 between Indians and whites. 



The Education division has supervision 

 of Indian school matters, records of school 

 attendance, making plans for school build- 

 ings, including their lighting, heating, and 

 sewerage; the selection of school sites, and 

 the issuance of regulations as to the gen- 

 eral management of the schools; prepares 

 and supervises bonds of disbursing officers, 

 and has charge of all matters relating to 

 the appointment, transfer, promotion, 

 etc. , of employees in the agency and school 

 service. 



The Indian Territory division super- 

 vises all matters relating to the Five 

 Civilized Tribes in Indian Ter., except 

 railroads, telephones, and pipe-lines; also 

 all timber matters except in the case of 

 the Menominee res., which is in charge 

 of the Land division. 



The Accounts division audits the cash 

 and property accounts of agents, school 

 superintendents, and other disbursing 

 officers; has the disposal of unserviceable 

 property; the collection and expenditure 

 of funds coming into the hands of agents 

 from sales of agency property or produce 

 or from other sources; the issuance of live- 

 stock, implements, and other supplies to 

 the Indians; sanitary statistics; census; 

 and the preparation and issuance of reg- 

 ulations for all branches of the service. 



The Superintendent of Indian Schools 

 inspects the schools personally, super- 

 vises methods of instruction, prepares the 

 course of study, both literary and in- 

 dustrial, recommends text-books, and ar- 

 ranges for general and local Indian school 

 institutes. 



The Files division briefs, registers, in- 

 dexes, and files all incoming and indexes 

 all outgoing correspondence. 



The Miscellaneous division has charge 

 of business connected with Indian traders 

 and field matrons, leaves of absence 

 granted clerks, the printing required by 

 the office, including the annual report, 

 and the stationery and other supplies 

 needed. 



Five special agents and seven school 

 supervisors report to the Commissioner 

 of Indian Affairs their inspections of the 

 work in the field. The employees under 

 the jurisdiction of the office number 

 about 5,000. The annual reports of the 

 Commissioner to the Secretary of the 

 Interior, with reports of agents, inspect- 



ors, and school superintendents, and with 

 population, industrial, and other statistics 

 pertaining to the Indians, are published 

 by authority of Congress, and contain 

 much valuable information respecting the 

 various tribes. 



For the organization of methods of the 

 Indian service in the field through the 

 agencies and schools, see Agency sijstem, 

 Education, Governmental policy, Reserva- 

 tions, Treaties. (m. s. c. ) 



Ofogoula (Choctaw: ofi 'dog', okla 'peo- 

 ple': 'dog people'). A small tribe 

 which formerly lived on the left bank of 

 Yazoo r.. Miss., 12 m. above its mouth 

 and close to the Yazoo, Koroa, and 

 Tunica. They are not mentioned in any 

 of the La Salle documents nor, by name 

 at least, in the relations of the priest mis- 

 sionaries De Montigny and La Source who 

 first visited the Yazoo tribes. In 1699 

 Iberville learned of them and recorded 

 their name from a Taensa Indian among 

 the Huma, but he did not reach their 

 village either on this or on his subsequent 

 expedition. It was probably during the 

 same year that Davion established him- 

 self as nussionary among the Tunica and 

 necessarily had more or less intercourse 

 with the tribes dwelling with them, i. e., 

 the Yazoo and Ofogoula. Early in 1700 

 Le Sueur, with whom was the historian 

 Penicaut, stopped at the village of the 

 combined tribes on his way to the head- 

 waters of the Mississippi, and in Novem- 

 ber of that year Father Gravier spent 

 some days there. He mentions the Ofo- 

 goula under their Tunica name, Ounspik 

 (properly Ushpi), and states that they 

 occupied 10 or 12 cabins. In 1729 Du 

 Pratz gave the numljer of cabins in the 

 united village of the Ofogoula, Yazoo, and 

 Koroa, as 60. On the outbreak of the 

 Natchez war the Yazoo and Koroa joined 

 the hostiles, murdered their missionary, 

 and destroyed the French post. The 

 Ofogoula were off hunting at the time, 

 and on their return every effort was made 

 to induce them to declare against the 

 French, but in vain, and they descended 

 the Mississippi to live with the Tunica. 

 There they must have continued to reside, 

 for Hutchins, in 1784, states that they 

 had a small village on the w. bank of the 

 Mississippi, 8 m. above Pointe Couple, La. 

 Although the name afterward disappears 

 from print, the living Tunica remember 

 them as neighbors to within about 40 

 years. Their language being similar to 

 that of the Choctaw, it is probable that 

 the remnant has become confused with 

 that tribe. (j. R. s. ) 



Affagoula.— Hutchins (1784) inlmlay, West. Terr., 

 419, 1797. Nation du Chien.— Dn Pratz, La., ll, 

 226, nw. Nation of the Dog.— Boudinot, Star in 

 the West, 128, 1X16. Ofagoulas.— Shea, Cath. Miss., 

 447, IS.'i.'i. Ofegaulas.— Lattre, Map of U. S., 1784. 

 Offagoulas.— I^a Harpe (1721) in French, Hist. 

 Coll. La., in, 110, 1851. Offegoulas.— Dumont, 



