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Nez Perce
May 13,  1

Hon. Comm'r. of Indian Affairs,

Sir:
Mrs Julia Cox, wife of William Taylor Cox (white) concerning whose rejection by the tribe I have already reported, desires that her case may be reopened and her name and her children's name again presented to the tribe for adoption.

The following is a summary of her case. In 1889, soon after my arrival here, she presented her claim to allotment which had previously been questioned. I told her she must prove to the satisfaction of the tribe in council, her Nez Perce blood, or failing to do that, be openly adopted. A council was called in the Fall of 1889, to hear her case. She failed to show her connection by blood to the tribe, and it was generally stating she was a Dalles Indian and not a Nez Perce. Mrs Cox said she had not been able to obtain her principal witnesses and asked a postponement of the case until the following year. This request I granted. In May 1890, I requested the Agent to call a council to hear the