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   Omaha Agency May 20/th 186
A C Fletcher My Dear
       Your letter of the 8/th of this month ar received and we are glad to hear from you and the letter was read to all the other Indian and they all glad to hear from you and you told us about the money that the government going to pay us this year you know off our want and what we want and try you best and have mercy on our tribe and help the tribe All the Indian and Indians and the tribe are depend upon you to help the tribe
we are going to aske you another matter The tribe held meeting to gather today and talked about the matter that the three man went down  and talked to you about the self government but very few of the Indian was at the Indian meeting. more than half of the tribe dont know what to do so they did not go to the meeting and Two Crows stode up and told the tribe that you said those who did not signe there name