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December .17. 1887.

To the Congress of the United States.

Gentlemen:

We, the undersigned , Omaha Indians citizens of the United States and of Nebraska, do most earnestly petition your honorable Body, that the seven annual payments of ten thousand dollars ($10.000) each, still due upon our treaty of 1855. Amounting to seventy thousand dollars ($70.000) be paid to us in two installments of thirty five thousand dollars ($35.000) each one payment to be made to us in the year 1888, and the other payment made in the year 1889. We ask for these payments for the following reasons:

We are farmers and we are poor: our ponies are unfitted for heavy work, consequently our fields and our crops are small; many of us need houses, all of us need implements to work with , that we
may earn something more than a bare living. Of the money received in years past from the sale of our land, but little has ever been of real benefit to us on our farms. For the past three years we have received our payments in cash, but the amount of the annuity had become so diminished being only eight dollars ($8) to each ^[[person]] that it has been impossible for us to purchase those things which we need. Our money is being wasted by coming to us in sums too small to be of