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some of the beset crops in that region of Nebraska among these Indian farmers. I met men whom five years ago I feared must live and die Indians, but who were now pushing out into better modes of living and thinking. Although I saw thriftlessness in places yet, manliness was astir; the old reservation stagnation was gone. Men talked of their future as if it were in their power to make it prosperous.  Plans of building new houses, improving farms, and questions of how to make the law effective on the reservation were discussed with me by many Indians during my short stay. The disintegrating process is at work all over the reservation has made the incoming of new life possible, and education was telling as never before.  Even the feast [[e and t handwritten]] and dance where the non-progressive Omahas met and resolved that they be and remain Indians, showed the movement of ideas in their very midst. Troublous as were the times, hope was in the air. Many Indians were setting an example of good order and individual enterprize, to men who knew far more than these Aborigines.

It was clear to me that the state of affairs among the Omahas was likely to be repeated; whenever an Indian tribe shall reach the stage of transition from the government and control of the Indian Dept. to that of the State. The Omaha tribe afforded me a glimpse into the workshop into which every true Indian worker much enter and labor with wisdom,