Viewing page 128 of 342

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

right stait along, but he hears words from the white people and that makes him stop.  He thought the land was his own so he went to work & cultivated it, but now he has found out it is not & that makes him stop.  That is the reason he has no house, he is afraid to build a house for fear that the land might be taken from him.  He is afraid if he should go to work & make a house for himself, build a house and spend any money on it , he might lose it if the Gov't should move them from their land.  Some time ago they told them they were going to build the brick house, he went to work again & cut log - all the logs have rotted again.  When he hears anything of that kind now it makes him ashamed.  About 2 yrs ago