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Show 3. • 0 import whereby to call them to Washington. The Offioe can very properly say that it is better to extend its messages and advice to the tribe through letters which can be read to all than to give such to a small delegation, they to deliver it to the tribe. Then I feel the Office should .tell these obstructionists that until they 1 __- go to work"on/'their lands and attempt te do something for themselves that the-government will decline to recognize them as leaders, giv--- ing preference to those who are trying" to do something. This, when properly explained, would go far toward overcoming the prestige some of these men are now enjoying. The one thing the Office needs to. make plain is that what has been done in way of lands in severalty and admitting homesteaders will have to stand and that it is useless for these leaders to ask to have things changed back, or to ask to go to '.'/ashington to discuss the matter. Also, that the time must come when the rations will be discontinued and that the young men must expect to work and earn their living just as the white men do under similar conditions. I feel the Office will see the wisdom of not referring to me in its reply, for as I am now working, with these Indians, and may have much, to do with them for some time in the future, it would be unfortunate to -:t__rrow*h "'the animous on me until thoy have had time to come to a proper realization of their condition. 7ery respectfully, w 7w ' FzFLa^/'f ,Li^w y Supervisor of Farming in Charge. |