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could [[?sue/see]] nor let us.  We agreed to sell a portion of our land because we wanted money to use to buy implements to [[?]] on our farms.  

This is the second time you will help as you want us to live to set us on our feet.  If you have not seen this already, you will see the implements which the Govt has sent us as a Tribe, laying outdoors in the bad weather, to rot & rust because they are owned by the tribe this is so.  If they were owned individually this would not be so.  When the people own implements they build sheds, where they keep them from rusting & rotting.  We wish to go to W & tell of these things.  We want these changes made.