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it after them & it could always be in the family. If they got titles they would know that the land was theirs & nothing would worry them about the land at all. [[strikethrough]] The reas [[/strikethrough]] How he found out that the certificates were not good, they took the land from the men who had the certificate & sold it to the Winnebagos, so he knows the certificate were [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] not good.

[[strikethrough]] All [[/strikethrough]] You have given me very good advice about my child.  I have only one.  You have been up among the Sioux and how they all want their children educated.  It is so with all the Indians.  They want their children educated.  They know that in the future it will be best for the children that they are educated now.  Before he had any children of his own, he sent a younger brother to school here & before he was 7 yrs old he could write & speak a little English. He is a great deal older than the brother the boy could learn he could not. The boy was [[?]] [[?]] but he would bring him back again

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