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children to attend them, and there schools are supported from the national funds. I have no doubt if schools were established and the Council of the tribes would refuse to pay a due proportion of the educational fund to them, that the Indian office here would interfere and order the payments to be made I ask your aid in procuring aid for these people. More than one half of them were slaves to the Indians or in Texas. The young ladies you send there should be protestant in religion, and women of good looks, good sense, and with such, much good can be done for the Indian, negro, and for the young ladies.
Yours
J. W. Wright
(Copy of Endorsement)
"Washington. Feby 14. 1867 
Respectfully referred to Rev'd J. R. Shipherde. I think it would be well to send two or three good teachers to Fort Gibson and establish a school, as suggested within. Judge Wright, the writer of the letter is a friend of the Indians and the negroes, and a very good man. Send there if you