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Wa-Ja-pa's View of the Land Question.
During the winter of 1879-1880, All the Chiefs and head men of that part of the Omaha tribe who wished to become citizens of the United States and own land in severalty, held a council in a mud lodge, to talk over the matter. After long and serious deliberation, they selected Wa-ja-pa (An Omaha Indian of good judgement.) to speak for them. They then sent for Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, an ethnologist & linguist, to interpret and reduce to writing their views. 
The Indians knew that a citizen of Omaha was at this time in the eastern states trying to create a public opinion in favor of Indian citizenship and ownership of land in severalty. Wa-ja-pa dictated this letter, which was translated by Mr. Dorsey and sent to the gentlemen who was at that time in Boston Mass. The translation is very literal and only those familiar with the Indian idiom can feel the full force of it. In many places where he says "You" He means the white people generally "or the government."

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I think the circled number in the right hand corner is 1 as the following page is 2. -@siobhanleachman