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to rightfully constitute either this father or mother as a head of a family. Should I regard and so allot every male and female who have had issue, I should have to give a large portion of all persons over 16 years 160 acres, and there would not be land enough by several hundreds of acres to go around. It has cost me much time and labor to trace the parentage of some of the children. The Indians here have never been taught even where the use of English surnames, the value of a family name. Father and [[?]], even brothers, are called by different English surnames. The lack of paternal names and [[?]] and care, and the custom with some mothers after the [[?]] years are [[?]] to give their children in charge of relations has added to the difficulty.