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Show Tha hordo of Indian oattle aro now adoquotoly supplied with I'' bulls of superior quality and tlve prospeot is good for another year. However, there is not nearly as many oattlo on the reservation aa tho grazing ground would support, and these Indians could profitably oaro for a largo purohaso/ 7 • i. - of tribal stock if suoh oould bo arrangod. Many of the Indians have spoken with me about **' ' ' •!.; • ; * ' . ••'.*"- the wisdom of using a portion of the tribal fund for the purchase of a, considerable herd of tribal oattleias on in-vostmentjin order that the range might be entirely utilised. The. purchase of tribal atook would, in my opinion, serve to aooentuate tribal interest rather than individual interest. The tendoncy would be to biro a white man who might or mig.it not be annistod by somo Indians to earn for suoh a herd of oattlo with the result that the stimulus to thd' individual Indian would bo lacking. Thero is, undoubtedly, oh-Opportunity for the tribo to moke money in suoh a venture . be-but whether or not it is a step to their ooDing self-support-ing might beoome a Boriouo quostion. .1 Much difficulty i3 oxperienoed in preventing Indians fr^m entering into cecrot doalo wi th white men whoroby tho If.&nna promise to run tho white men's oattlo with thoir oattlo. claiming them oil throughout the grazing soaoon> m oorti casoo it Una "been impossible for tho otock-taan to find out the facts whon Oattlo boarln\s different brands arc .found |
