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We, the undersigned members of the Omaha Tribe have taken out certification of allotment of land or entered upon claims with in the Omaha Reserve:  Se have worked upon our respective lands from 3 to 10 years:  Each farm has from [[15?]] to 50 acres:  many of us have built houses on these lands and all have endeavored to make permanent homes for our selves and our children:  We therefore petition your Honorable Body to grant to each one a clear and full title to the land on which he has worked.
  We most earnestly pray that this petition may receive your favorable consideration, for we now labor with deep discouragement of heart, knowing that our farms are not our own and that any day we may be forced to leave the land on which we have worked.  We desire to live and to work on these farms where we have made homes that our children may advance in the life we have adopted.  To this end and that we may go forward with hope and confidence in a better future for out Tribe we ask of you, titles to our lands.
  Respectfully submitted