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use them at all as harness.  Only half a set was given to each family.  The only use the Omahas could make of them was to cut up the wide straps & use them for the soles of moccasins.

We are aware that in the instance where we state 50 head of cattle were
issued to us, 100 were bought by the Agent, but he kept them at the Agency
where half of them starved to death, & the 50 which were actually issued were very poor & almost worthless.

Before the second sale of land was made to the Winnebagoes, the U.S. in accordance with the treaty stipulations had issued to the Omahas certificates of allotment for seperate tracts of land on which they desired to make permanent homes.  Several of these tracts of land, for
which certificates of allotment had been issued in one form, were included in the last tract of land which the Omahas were forced to sell to the Winnebagoes.  [[?The]] claim that of these certificates of