Our knowledge in New Zealand of the “Red” Indians of the United States is limited pretty much to what we have picked up from films and adventure stories of the pioneer days. Many of these have dealt with the Indians as a dying race. But there are today very considerable numbers of Indians throughout the country, living often in groups on reservations and under the special protection of the Federal Government. In more recent years the Government has set up a wide and complicated range of special services to Indians. Discussion now centred on the stepping down of the Government from its position of special protector and trustee and the taking by the Indian of his place in the community as an ordinary citizen. Although the position of the Indian is not the same as that of the Maori, the facts about the Indians as discussed in this article must be of interest to many readers BOOKS United States Indians by E. W. Williams House of Representatives Report No. 1503. 82d Congress 2d Session, Union Calendar No. 790. Report with Respect to the House Resolution authorising the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to conduct an Investigation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pursuant to House Resolution 698 (82d Congress) This is a weighty title and the volume concerned is correspondingly heavy. It contains some 2,000 pages of closely printed material on the Indians of the United States and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which is the department of the Federal Government concerned with Indian administration. This book probably contains more facts about the Indians than could be found in any other single volume. Certainly there is more information in it than most of us would ever have the time or the inclination to take in. The material was assembled for or by a Committee (actually a sub-committee of a Committee) of the United States House of Representatives which in 1952 was directed by the House to investigate the activities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In a “Summary Statement” of one and a half pages (1 ½ pages out of 2,000), the Committee sets out its belief “that all legislation dealing with Indian Affairs should be directed to the ending of a segregated race set aside from other citizens” and recommends that the objectives should be “(1) the end of wardship or trust status as not acceptable to the American way of life, and (2) the assumption by individual Indians of all the duties, obligations and privileges of free citizens”. It should be noted that in the statement the Committee expresses doubts about some of the information provided by the Bureau and reproduced in the book. At the date of compilation of the figures, there were something like 403,000 Indians on tribal rolls, of whom 19,000 were “full-bloods”. About 61,000 Indians are said to be unable to speak English, and almost the same number to be illiterate. Nothing is said of the definition of “Indian” as used, and it is presumed that there must be at least some individuals with a degree of Indian blood who are submerged in the general population and not included in these figures. The Indians reside in 26 states and in the Territory of Alaska. The greatest number, 93,000 odd, is in Arizona, and the smallest, 392, in Louisiana. There seem to be about 80 main tribes or tribal groups, broken up into several hundred bands and clans and living on or around some 375 reservations, which range in size from less than