“In view of the extremely unsanitary conditions existing in many of the full-blood homes throughout the Five Civilized Tribes, it would appear that field matrons would here find a large field for usefulness. The people with whom she comes in contact are easy of approach and tractable. They are also readily susceptible to teaching, and would, no doubt, welcome the assistance that the field matron would be able to give.” Correspondent, Muskogee, Okla. Five Civilized Tribes. Reports of the Commissioners of Indian Affairs, 1893–1905. Health Conditions Among Indians.—_Edgar B. Meritt._ The Red Man. May, 1914. P. 347. Tuberculosis, Saving Indians from.—_Frank H. Wright._ Twenty-fifth Annual Report Lake Mohonk Conference 1907. P. 38. Sanitary Homes for Indians.—_Edgar B. Meritt._ The Red Man. June, 1912. P. 439. Sanitorium Schools: Fort Lapwai, East Farm, Laquna (Tuberculosis Sanitorium), Toledo. From Articles pp. 356, 362, 368, 385, The Red Man. May, 1914. Indian Medical Service, Organizing the.—_J. A. Murphy._ Twenty-seventh Annual Report Lake Mohonk Conference, 1909. P. 23. “White Plague” of Red Man.—_George P. Donehoo, D.D._ The Red Man. September, 1912. P. 3. The Trachoma Problem.—_W. H. Harrison, M.D._ The Red Man. May, 1914. P. 377. Tuberculosis Problem, Important Phases of.—_Dr. F. Shoemaker._ The Red Man. May, 1914. P. 351. Indian Tuberculosis Sanitarium and Yakima Indian Reservation.—_Congressional Record_, 63rd Congress. Dec. 20, 1913. [Illustration: REV. SHERMAN COOLIDGE; ARAPAHO Missionary at Fort Washakie, Wyoming. ] ----- Footnote 50: Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 42, Washington, 1909. Pages 11–14. CHAPTER XXVII. THE INDIAN’S RELIGION; HIS CHARACTER; PHILANTHROPIC ORGANIZATIONS