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to the Christian party, led by their native ministers, are standing out against the men who cling to the past, and are looking to or holding Agency Offices.

I shall overcome all difficulties eventually, but it takes time and patience under the circumstance

It gives me especial pleasure to hear testimony to the conduct of students who have attended the outside training schools. Their knowledge of English, their glimpses of the outside world, of hearing something talked of that touched upon wider interests than can exist on a reservation, their experience of living in the midst of white men; all these conditions have developed boys and girls, into men and women, now their troubles have come, and the operation of a law is enforced that has never explained to any of the Indians until my arrival. These boys and girls have read the law, have answered the objections of the older men & desire the Emancipation that allotment brings the Indians.

Pardon a long report, but the mistaken estimate of this reservation has made it needful that your attention should be called to the hard facts in the case.

Respectfully
[[signature]] Alice C Fletcher [[/signature]]
Special Ind. Agt.