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[[strikethrough]] these things [[/strikethrough]] with us for fear that they could no longer be Indians if they called themselves citizens and jointed with them men who are glad to hear [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] the name.

We do not know what these three men propose to say to you. We have heard that they will ask to have hourses, wagons, & harness bought. We also hear that they protest against being anything but Indians. We do not know what these men intend, as we have said, but we do know the men, and we protest against them [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] representing  [[strikethrough]] ive of [[/strikethrough]] the tribe. These are men who work little but one of them has a house & a small farm of 10 or 15 acres. One likes to wander, visiting other tribes and getting ponies, he has spent most of the past year in the Indian territory

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and has done nothing for his people [[strikethrough]] in helping them [[/strikethrough]]  either by word or example to help them to better living. One is an old man, who remembers the past.

It is true many of us need horses, wagons & harness. [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] and we need other things too. But, most of all, we need to control our own property and like men, handle our own money. And learn by experience the best way to prosper. We believe in work and self support. We are glad we are at last citizens and are on the road to self-government. We have cash our first note and we look for now to becoming men of whom the State, where our fathers lived as hunters, shall be proud of [[strikethrough]] we [[/strikethrough]] as citizens.

In the name of the working,