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Show As to tho probability of the V/hite River Indians leaving tho reservation when it is opened, Colonel Wast statc3 that no one can predict such a movement. In reporting upon this matter, I have to say that on Hay 13,1905, a communication v/as received from Capt. Hall, Acting Indian Agent, stating that the White River Indians had within the last few days expressed their willingness to accept thoir allotments, which stato of affairs, if continued, he regarded as very satisfactory. He believed that these Indians had made request for their land and trusted that if everything went along in a satisfactory manner with them they would make no further protest, but he expressed the opinion that if some minor point should come up -which tended to displease them they would in all probability take steps to leave the reservation, as before reported. Capt. Hall further statad that several of the headmen of this band had requested him to write this Office and ask that Henry Johnson, a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, and a son of Tim Johnson, a White River headman, be sent to the reservation to act a3 their Interpreter; that they had no Interpreter in whom they placed confidence; that therefore vrhen any difference arose upon which they desired information it was difficult to convince them of the true state of affairs. He thought. In this Instance, that It would be a diplomatic novs to ..nd Henry Johnson home, to stay at least until after the land3 •shall have been allotted in order that he might interpret for them, and "air this means show these Indians that wherever possible I |