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He says:  He wants a title to his land. his changing his dress ought to show that.  He loves his land. God gave it to him.  He does not want to go to the Indian Territory, he wants to stay here for that reason.  He hopes the white people will help him, he & all the Indians love their land and want to keep it.  He is always thinking about it and wishing the white people would give them titles, so that the land could never be taken away.

5 yrs. ago an Indian was killed by White men and a few years before then an Indian man was killed near Omaha.  Nothing has been done to these white men, who were said to be drunk.  He want law so Justice can be done.