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white people will charge all their illdoing to us and thus prevent good feeling between us and our white neighbors. We look to the Government to protect us from persons of this character who have not our blood, and whom we refuse to adopt."

At Lapwai the [[partioners ?? business ??]], and no vote was taken formally and counted. The Indians, all but a few, expressing their [[?]] as of a like feeling with that so decidedly stated at Kamiah.

Mrs Cox has taken up a large tract of the richest land on the reservation. She did so in 1889. She ploughed in 1890 and even after her [[?]] by the tribe, built a house upon it. I have repeatedly warned her she was doing all her work at the risk of loss, as I could not allot her in the face of the evidence against her. She maintains she is a Nez Perce, and that the tribe will adopt her, and asks that she be given one more chance. Both she and her husband seem quite determined to hold to the land they have selected.

I respectfully ask for instructions concerning this case.

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