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there, for which I am sorry, but let me ask you why you assault me? Has not your school and Captain Pratt's and nearly all the other schools for Indian children grown out of the agitation which I commenced nearly nine years ago? What can be gained by this? You say yourself, I endorse the school, and the only crime I am accused of, is that I want the chance for the Indian to make a living when he gets home from this school. Every person who has had large[[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] experience with Indians on Reservations is in perfect accord with me. Gen. Crook, and Mr. Riggs, Mr. Williamson, --all say that Indians must have an opportunity on Reservations to make a living. Mr. Riggs has so managed the Santee's that the Reservation is entirely broken up, and white settlers are mingled with the Indians all over. They will succeed, while the Yankton's with Mr. Williamson at their head still suffer from the old conditions of affairs. I am exceedingly sorry for the tone of your letter towards me. I have given all the aid that was in my power to Hampton; What is the matter, what have I done wrong about this thing? It don't enlighten men engaged in this work a bit to call me a crank. You know just as well as I know that unless we can introduce the industries of civilization upon Indian Reserves that all other work must come to naught. You know that an educated Indian youth, who is without capital, can do nothing upon a Reservation to make a living unless he gets a position under the Government, or in some missionary work, -- you know that is so. Now