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It is this second part, of the tract claimed by Langford, which the Indians stoutly deny ever having in any way parted with. On this portion of the claim stands the building used as a boarding school for girls put there[[insert]] by the Government [[/insert]] by permission of the tribe; here the Indians have erected their native church, raising the money to build it among themselves; and, all along the valley of the Lapwai are Indian houses, gardens and orchards, where the people have settled, not upon a mission claim, as they understood it, for that land they have always respected, but they settled near the mission station upon land which they firmly believed to be theirs by original right and later by treaty stipulation. Twenty one families are living upon the bottom covered by the second part of the description of the land in Mr. Langford's deed.

The first tract, that acknowledged [[insert]] by the Indians [[/insert]] as Mr. Spalding's claim, covering about 21 acres, lies wholly in Section 22, Township 36 North, Range 4 West. It is a level piece of ground. The second tract in the description, that which starts at the southeast comer of the unfinished stone church, and follows up Lapwai Creek along the foothills, lies in