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blood relations and have [[?removed]] or attempted to remove to the reservation intending to make it their permanent home, although it would be proper, unless there are facts in the case that do not appear to admit them to the benefits of the allotment provision.  If however the tribe will not give their consent, then they must be refused.  This office will accept the action of the tribe as a final decision of the case.

To the question whether the tribe had consented, in June 1882, to allow Mrs. Euphrasia Peters to select land for herself and children on the Omaha reservation an emphatic denial was given.

[[?Some]] notes taken at the council of March 10, 188[[?]], I transmit the speech of [[?Par dar go he]] made after all the evidence in the case of Mrs. Euphrasia Peters had been laid before the people.  He said:
"The Nemaha people may have Omaha blood but they kept away from us and