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Show and then when you and this Superintendent and the Wasnington people all agree then you have got your attorney. Now as I understand it all, three bands, through their six men and this superintendent, choose their attorney. And all these men when they get together will talk over what the Government owes you and what they shall give you, then they will write it on paper and sent it to Washington. Now if you are not too tired I will talk a little more. If you are tired I will quit now. Alright, I wnat to say that this committee that you can choose today Is not going to interfer with the pleasure, happiness, or you religion. Because it is made up of yourselves and how are you going to interfer with yourselves? Now I will pass on to something else. The Secretary of the Interior, whose name I have on this card, wants to know how the Indians of the United States are getting along so he sent throughout the country nine men and two women, Dr. Dale and myself are two of the men, to visit all the Indians and go back and tell him what we have seen. Some times in years gone by when a man said he was a brave man he had to own a scalp. When he had a scalp in his hand we believe him, but if he did not have a scalp in his hand we did not believe it. Among my tribe we put an eagle feather on his head to show he is a brave man. That is because he had a scalp in his hand. Now instead of carrying a scalp today we carry this card ato show you people we come from Washington. Any of you who can read english can read what I say. Everywhere we go among the Indian tribe they gather before us and tell us what they think in their hears and we sit down and we have a little book like this and we weite down everything they say. A little while ago when different ones were making speeches I took it all down. Everything is in this book now. When I get back to the Secretary of the Interior I am going to tell him what you did todyA Now the Secretary of the Interior is higher than the commissioner of Indian Affairs. First is the President, then the Secretary of the Interior, and then the Superintendent. It was not or intention to be present at this meeting as we did not know that you epople were going to have a meeting. We were aked in to say a few words to you people by your Superintendent. Yesterday we went all over this land and saw the Whiteriver Bottoms and the Wyasket Bottoms and saw that there was no water or ditches and they need them. Now you need water over there so that you Indians who belong there can live there and hve something to eat and your Superintendent here is going to help you to get water there, and Dr. Dale and I will try hard to help you too. We will tell the Secretary of the Interior whom we hope wil tell Congress to help you people. We will tell him also to help you get back what you lost so that you will get a square deal and a fair deal. This mrning we were over at Whiterocks and saw the school children in the school rooms and found that the children were getting enough to eat and enough clothing to wear to eep them warm. We found that you need some more teachers and some buildings and you ned more cows so that the children will get more milk to drink. We are looking around and seeing these things and are going to try to help you in all these things. Now today if you are not too tired I would like to ask you to talk to us and tell us what you are thinking about. Beforeyou begin I would like to have my friend, Dr. Dale, say a few words to you, I thank you all for listening to me. Dr. Dale: "I am very glad to be here today and to meet the Indians of this reservation. My friend and I have traveled all over the United States and visited all of the Indians of the United States so that we can tell the Secretary of the interior all about the Indians and what they need, etc. You have been listening to a speech by my friend here who is a great man. He was born on a reservation and has gone to an Indian school like the one at Whiterocks. He has also gone to the white mans school. He has been in all the great cities of the United States and know the President of the United States, the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and many of the great men of Washington. He and I have visited in the homes of Congressmen, the Secretary, and the Commissioner's The Secretary is very eager to know how the Indians are getting along and for that reason he has sent these people all over the Unaited States and we represent that group of men. I am not going to speal long because we want to hear some of these men talk. We iust happened to be here at tis meeting. We had nothing to do with the meeting. We are here because your Superintendaent invited us to come and and to sit with you and listen to this meeting. We think it is a very good |