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Show -4- after Chief Ouray and it is a good agency, no white man's agency. I am not lying,5 am telling the truth. I was not bon here, was born faxrther east in Colorado. When are you going to pay the annuity money? Ouray toll.mo before he died that annuity wilt bo paid. When will it be paid. All the Indians are thinking about the rumui-fcy. Cliiof Ouray said It would he paid forevor. I want to know when monoy will be paid. Wo owe everybody. We cannot pay oxir debts. It is alright about there Indians who are away, they cannot cone back. This is alright, the wood water and lands belong to the Utoo. The white man cannot take it -away. When school children arc sick, rchool boys ought to come hack'home to tlic.tr mother, if they die at homo, thats alright , no kick. Too lato that is no good. If they sick, come home till get well and then go back that is pretty good. (Explanations were given as to the cause of delay in payment of annuity moneys. ) A. u u vi'i • I like to sec my an uity money paid. I like that. Lots of old sqaws get something in tho store and then have money to pay with. Those ditches are alrght, I likfc them to come. The 'boys like tho ditches to come, they work a while and then rest a while and then work again. They got tired and then rest a while• Wo liko to smoke cigarettes on ditch work, xxrokn Work little while then smoke. I don't want to be maths with any body. We don't want to cuss oheanothcr. hrc want to bo good friends. Thats alright. The school children ought to come back home to their father and mother wh.cn they arc sick. I don't want to cuss school teacher. i 'then school hoys come home sick, when well, take him hack. SAJ-I ATCIIEE: About those old commissioners who came here. I went to Washington. I heard talk at the whitchouce. I heard about allotment of land. Washington said it was on the books, our land. I know it. Washington said, "you do not believe you will get good land. If you go there you will find your land right there. |
