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Show 120 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. The surveyors are out surveying our country, and we want plows enough to farm our new land. If I want to plow, I could use a pldw ; if not, somebody else could use it. Captain Smith has always attended to our wants, and bought all the wheat that he had money to buy. We never have had enough of white man's food to eat, and it pulls us back to a sav-age life. Where we have a fishery, it is not on our ground ; the whites are there. These Indians go hunting, and wander about the whites country. If I could get food anywhere else, I would go and get it, and not roam about the country. The fishery where we made our living is now owned by a white man ; a white man said many things about it that were not so. It is not right to starve the Indians ; it is better to kill them. Captain Smith saw we had no grain this year, so he rented the fishery for sixty dollars. The man who owned it tried to keep the Indians out of his garden ; but they would not steal anything, and it was his fault if they came there ; he rented the fishery to them. The Indian is used to fish, and depends on it for good. This is bad land we live on ; some of us want to get better land than this. HOL- O- QUIL- A, ( Tenino or Lower Des Chutes band.) lam glad to see you. I have been expecting you for a long while. I am alone; all my people have left me; my friends are dead. They tried to do as the whites. They left me their habits, as far as they knew how, to be like the whites. They told me this reservation was the place that was picked out for me by the treaty. I came here, and expect to stay. I was told some time ago that we would have a flour- mill and saw- mill, and I see them. They told me I would be like the blacksmith and other employe's, and would work with them. They told me I was to have cattle and oxen to plow with. Some of these things I have not seen ; they did not come here. The people all know how to work ; they can cut down trees, but it does no good ; they cannot haul them to the mill. I have some cows and oxen. The white man says, take land and go ahead. I am living at home. I cannot say I have a fire in my house ; it is out. I cannot have wagons to haul my wood. I think I am almost like a white man. I don't lie asleep ; I get up and work. Look at my farm. I try to live like a white man. I am glad to see you. You came from the place where they first tried to make me like a white man. I think the President will now send me some money, or wag-ons, or something, and my people will then go to work, and try to do something. I work under disadvantages. I have no fanning- mill to fan out my wheat, and must wait for a wind. I wait, and the sweat pours over my face, and the wind blows the chaff from it in my face. Not only me, but my wife and children, are tired out by the disadvantages under which we work; and when you go back you will report how things are. HOAT. You have come here, but you have only gone up and down this one creek. You see what little farms we have ; our land is only good for sage- brush. We have no good land. The Umatilla and Sirncoe reservations are different, so at Klamath; and that is why I thought the reservation at Warm Spring ought to be larger. We have no good farming land, only desert; and that is why we cannot raise anything. I cannot raise any crop, and it makes me no better off than the man who will riot work. If I had good land, I would try and raise something to live on. You cannot expect me to have a crop ; I have no land on which to raise it. People outside the reservation make a great fuss because I must go out to hunt my food ; I cannot help it. I used to to hunt for game, and get roots and fish, but this is the reservation that is marked out for me to live on. I like to have plenty of food, as white men have. If 1 am to work give me something to work with, good machines, and good land on which to work. Mr. BRUNOT. Is there any good land in the Sinemarsh country ? HOAT. Some land there looks good, but we have never tried it ; there are some little springs there. TE- TE- WASHA, ( Warm Spring tribe.) I see you to- day, and you see me. All of these people are red men, children of one Father ; and we try to do what will please him. He made us and put us in this land, and we grew upon it. YAU- CHUST, ( Wascoe tribe.) I have heard all you said to- day. It is much like what they said at the treaty. When I came here to the reservation I did not expect to trouble the agent to teach me. I see people work and I try to imitate them. All you said to- day, I have in my heart. All the people who have been here as agents have treated us very badly. The people who were sent here to teach us to do right tried to take our wives away from us, and lived with them. When the treaty was made the} 7 did not tell us they would do this, but they promised to send good men who would teach us right. These people have told you the truth ; they are poor and naked. They took me from as good a place when I came here, and have not bettered my condition. You live better than we do, because God has taught you more. You have talked good words to us, and I think if we do right God will do good to us. The people tell you the truth ; we work on our farms and raise what we can, but before winter all is eaten up, and we must wander about and hunt food. If I had cattle and hogs I could live on what is here. Were it not for the fish and roots we get we would starve. I get scared when I see how little food we have, so I must take my children to the mountains where I can get ' game to keep them; 1 would be glad to have aid. If I could get land big enough and good enough to live on I would make rails and work on it, and make my living. What you said went to my heart ; but we cannot raise enough to live on. The President has heard that we are doing well, and that we raise our |