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of Celestia Barada or Kuhn, appears thereon, and it is proper to conclude that they were not recognized either as members of the tribe or half or mixed blood relatives residing with them. If Mrs. Kuhn was not entitled to an allotment then, she certainly is not entitled now. The conditions remain the same. She has in no manner been identified with the tribe since that time; has not been adopted into the tribe, nor lived with them until the very recent period spoken of.

As was remarked to Miss Fletcher, it would be absurd to contend that the treaty of 1865, or the more recent act of Congress under which the allotments are being made, were intended as a general invitation to all persons, everywhere, who might be able to prove the existence of a drop or more of Omaha blood in their veins, to repair to the reservation and select an allotment. Manifestly such was not the intention nor will any such construction be admitted in making the allotments.

It is not at all likely in the first place, that there would be land enough on the entire reservation to go around in