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this matter so we want you help in this matter so
I send you their words.  In the past, we only lived on the Animals but they are gone now.  We see
it is from the ground you get [[strikethrough]] grow
[[/strikethrough]] all that you have & possess.

[[strikethrough section]] The Gov't takes only the 
words of its Employees - but does not seem to
take the words of the Indians.  I think the Agents
do not help us more is because they fear to lose
their place when we get our titles.
[[/strikethrough section]]

The reason you don't look upon us as men is
because we have not the [[underlined]] law
[[/underlined]] that we are not citizen, we are
as stranger in the land where