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that the said Celestia Kuhn, is not entitled to an allotment, and you ask that your decision in the case be approved.
  It appears that the applicant is one of seven living children of Antoine Barada, an Omaha half-breed; that she was born of a white mother (French) in St. Louis, Mo. and has lived all her life away from the Omahas, until last spring when she appeared on the reservation, with her husband, (a white man) and children, with a view to securing, if possible, allotments of land.
  The law under which the allotments to the Omahas are being