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Show V/ ashington and t e l l them t h a t these reports are untrue. " Y/ e have lived in this country many y e a r s . In . this land our grandfathers and our fathers and our families are buried. Our wives and our children have lived and died here long. beiore any white men came. ; In the old- times, we had plenty of game and wore not hungry, but" now~ the game has" gone. Y/ hether i t has died or whether the white men have driven it out, I do not know. " Yfnat we want i s some land of our own. She. white men are driving us back and we are driven around the country l i k e coyotes. \ Ve have no home. Ymen we go to the Agency or onto the Resex^ vation, the Indians who l i v e there t e l l us that they' do not want us, that we belong other places and they adve us awayxrom t h e i r springs and their grass and we seldom go t h e r e to t a l k to the Agent or to v i s i t the Indians. '•$£ If the Government will give us some land in Allen Canyon and along Montezuma Creek, we w i l l have land for pasture for our stock. Y/ e want a school b u i l t at the mouth of Allen Canyon v. here our children can go. We do not want to send our c h i l dren away to school. Vihen white men s e t t l e in a country and have t h e i r many families there, they build a school. We have lived lie re in t h i s country for many years and i believe t h a t the Government should give us a small school for our children. ," She r e are two kinds of white men i n t h i s country, the) cow- boys and the farmers. -/ She coy- boys do not like us" and what l i t t l e stock we have , A: they drive i t away. './' She farmers would like to have us stay because many of the Indians work for the white men on t h e i r farms. I want ycu to write' • to Y/ ash In gto n * and " te 11 t h eri wh at we, wan t and what y. e c an" d o, and" when you come;:: t'o us again . we*- will a l l be here' tov*: maet~: you." . Several^ other Indlahs\ spoke (. after Maneos Jim x'cr a very short time in >/ hicn they simply said t h a t Maneos ^ Ji'rn had spoken ' the t r u t h and t h a t his Ttalk"!. was the same^ as> their Own. Af t o r t OOL k i ng wi t h the s e :: Ind ians a n d t n e wh i t e me n throughout this" soot- ion,:;! um strongly ; oi.: the opinion'that' while any availaulo ' fund remains, /^ thu t: the'^ Govornmont^ hctld give each member of the differ en ^ f a m i l i e s a dof in l id a l l o t - men t of land, : as s i s t ; t hem i n f enc'ing th I s land, ' no t '•'* so much in individual allotments as in family t r a c t s , because,•:,; xoV" the most pari,' the grazing i s very sparse, but i f enough v/ ere given to each individual, then every family would have_ their oy/ n range and could be a s s i s t e d in r a i s i n g sheep and goats^ which is the only Industry that can be successfully carried on. I on strongly of the opinion t h a t with proper friendly hoIp, with a\ day school established and' a f armor or^ some day school |