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tribe.  If the allottments adjoining the white settlements are cultivated and occupied by their owners, it will help to make the relations between the settlers and the Indians better, both now and in the future.  There are between 20 and 30 men who should be helped this year, during the month of June in the manner indicated.  If some of the money appropriated for the assisting of Indians upon their allottments taken under the Act of Feb. 8, 1887, could be applied in this way, it would do much good.  $4000 would start quite a colony of Winnabago Indians in the localities named.

I would also urge that negotiations be entered into as soon as possible for the opening of the unallotted lands lying in Townships 25, 26, and 27.  Ranges 5,6, and 7.  The best interests of the Indian demand the presence of white neighbors, living and working on farms.

Respectfully submitted,
[[signed]]Alice C. Fletcher
Special Indian Agent [[/signed]]

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