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use is it to educate our children to trade if when they return home they have no chance to open shops & earn money by what they have learned.  Why not give us the opportunities of white people if you would have us become like them?  

As far as my observation goes the Omahas are as ready as a people can be expected to be for the taking away of the Government employees.  The people are fixed upon their lands, are steadily farming and progressing, they have learned the value of work, and that a man earns his living solely by personal exertion, they therefore rely upon themselves, and the larger part have ceased to use the Agency shops exclusively.  [[strikethrough]] They [[/strikethrough]]  A large portion take their wheat & corn to the mills outside the Reservation where better flour & meal is obtained, and they go among the White settlements for all the