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business [?] is difficult to tell.  The educated says "I will not," and gives reasons that bring out the selfishness of the individual with all his grasping nature.  He shamelessly ignores the fact that his relation with the owners of this reservation is either that of outright charity or marriage for what money there might be in it.  A white man that has some degree of self respect and manly pride would blush and be ashamed that he belongs to the white race if he knew that more than one half of the members of this tribe are white, and the cause that brought about so rapid a change-  But there is no shame, no self respect, no pride of any sort.  The mixture of  

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Irish, English, German, and Italian stands up, corpulent and fat with the wealth of the untutored and says, "I have a right, as member of this tribe to speak.  I have an equal share in the common property.  No man can dispossess me of that right.  I want and must have, all that is coming to me."  And so it goes, one refuses to lease the ^[tribal] mineral rights and gives no reason, and the other refuses because he wants that right himself, individually.  If he cannot get the exclusive right he will use all his ability to defeat the efforts of those who desire to lease for the common benefit.  

This morning is calm, clear and hot, but by noon the hot south wind that keeps the air full of dust will