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Show Uinta councils, 40, I am not living on this land through 3303? a lie. What you are telling here I cannot understand, I understand this agency and this reservation thaifc I live on. My friend tells me about this Washington, My boy is living on this reservation. I dont want people coming here to settle this land. They cannot come and settle it. When they talk that way v/e dont understand what they are talking about. This is a big thing here and they cannot steal it. They cannot steal it by a lie. I dont like it. What I am telling you is the truth. I am not telling you this for any joke. Even if you do say that,I do not believe it, I do not want you to steal Washington's mouth. You are a good man. What you are talking may be truth. The agent here never came in here with a lie either, Capt.Joe. The reason these Indians are talking isTif Congress did this they do not like it. They dont understand this paper. They dont know how to read if they did understand it. You are talking,we are listening. We dontfeel hurt through you at all. They are wondering why they talk that way in congress. We nsver heard it before. We do not like for them to come and steal our land. This land here belongs to us - all this land here. Not only Congress knows about this reservation^but all white people,that this reservation belongs to us. We havw a school-house here and our children are going to school. When our father talks to us we do not say "Mo,no". The Indians say that even if Congress did say that they dont want them to take this land because it belongs to the Indians. Even if they did say that this land is to ba |
