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and what he told me he said at Washington, now that I have been on the ground and learned facts I find not true, but all this the Indian consider as a minor trouble compared to his being forced upon them. The Severalty being sprung upon them just as Monteith is also sprung upon them taken with the way the white man has trespassed on their lands in the park - cause opposition to Severalty - I have twice talked to the people, read the law to them, read it to & with those who can read and I have already put the Surveyor on the boundaries to take the lines where the treaty puts them and to warn off intruding settlers. And I can say I think now there is no real opposition of any moment to allotment, but:- The Indians know that the Gov't and the white people are anxious for allotment, and they propose to ask that if they are quickly allotted, doing as the Gov't asks they also be granted this one request, the removal of C.E. Monteith.  They are trying to freeze me out. I can't get an Indian chairman. They may leave me isolated, I recognize their trouble, and am using all my power to placate. I shall not torment them or drive them. But I am in a delicate place where the circumstantial evidence to the Indian seems to class me with the hated Monteith, the only thing in my favor being my own personal character as known to a few. I am being watched and silently tested. You can see the delicacy of my position, intangible trouble but real.