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Congress of Indian land holdings. Reservations should all be dispensed with. Indians go out into the general public and become evaporated in the general body politic up there and you can't tell anybody, can't look at you, unless you happened to be dark skinned--where'd you come from, where'd you come from and that sort of thing.

Also, a bill by Senator Malone of Nevada, the purpose of which are to give the consent of the Congress to do all these things, now impossible according to the existing law. It is with respect to the defeat of these bills now in the next session of Congress that the Indians of the United States must concern themselves. Marshal their forces and if they never expect to continue to hold any semblance of continued rights under the law and respect to their treaty commitments, and freedom from taxation, etc., as has been promised in the treaties, the need for immediate effective action is apparent and should need no great argument here or exhortation to establish. The overall strategy now is to begin by taxing the personal case, because of a loophole in the treaties where the treaties were silent upon the question of personal property of the Indians as has been done in Oklahoma, and the Bert Toonaa case, because of a loophole in the treaties where the treaties were silent upon the question of personal property in existing treaties and in which the non-taxable guarantee was directed in those old days against the land way back 75 or 80 years ago--who in the world though about personal property. All that the Indians had was his pony between his legs, his tepee. Every time the buffalo came back in the fall, the tepee was discarded and a new one, a new one tanned out up here. The treaty was silent, although it was antended [[intended]] to take in every form of property, both personal and land and real estate. That oversight has given these sharpies in the Bureau of Internal Revenue the opportunity to come in up there and say to the Indians in Oklahoma, where Bert Toonaa and his wife came down to the Anadarko Indian Agency, came to the superintendent, and Mr. Superintendent, I want my lease rent. Bert Toonaa had some twenty thousand odd dollars from oil leases, grazing leases, farming leases, that had accumulated in the Anadarko Indian Agency to the credit of himself and his wife on the IIM accounts. Mr. Jones up there from the Bureau of Internal Revenue came to the Superintendent, and I don't know what his name is, sand said, Mr. Superintendent, I want to see Mr. Bert Toonaa's account. Now, usually when they come at it that way in the superintendent's office, we tell them, "hey, you don't get that kind of information here, go to the Federal Court and if you can get an order from the court to come and inquire into this man's record, much less come and ask for money without his consent, you're not going to get it." I kicked out many of those Jew shyster lawyers from New York up there while I was Superintendent, the 11 years under the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, at Crow Agency, on lesser account that that--"here's the door, get out of here. If you don't go out you're going out Notre Dame style here." They went out and reported me to the Washington office. I was in constant turmoil in defending the Indians in that regard that their personal property, which is money in their pocket, oil lease rentals, and grazing lease rentals and grain crop share lease rentals, the IIM accounts in the Indian office, is their personal property, and heretofore with all the decisions that guides the lawyers up here, in these land matters, the Indians were free, but right

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