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that we were to get patents for them. [[strikethrough]]We[[/strikethrough]] [[I?]] ask for patents to these lands. They said they gave them to us, but we were only cheated. When we thought we had patents we afterward found out that they were only "certificates of allotment."
We think of nothing else but that we may have patents for these lands, so we may not have to leave them. We live on these lands, on separate tracts, according to the provisions of the treaty, every condition of