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  We 
  know 
  thai 
  in 
  asking 
  for 
  titles 
  we 
  are 
  asking 
  for 
  that, 
  which 
  will 
  bring 
  responsibility. 
  

   We 
  arc 
  ready 
  to 
  accept 
  it 
  and 
  to 
  strive 
  to 
  fulfill 
  its 
  requirements. 
  Ii 
  seems 
  as 
  though 
  

  

  in 
  the 
  past, 
  the 
  Government 
  hail 
  not 
  listened 
  to 
  the 
  words 
  of 
  the 
  Indians. 
  We 
  know 
  

   our 
  own 
  needs, 
  and 
  now 
  we 
  speak 
  to 
  you 
  directly. 
  

  

  The 
  petition 
  was 
  presented 
  by 
  the 
  Hon. 
  John 
  T. 
  Morgan, 
  of 
  

   Alabama, 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  Senate, 
  was 
  ordered 
  printed 
  — 
  and 
  there 
  

   the 
  matter 
  rested. 
  All 
  that 
  winter 
  the 
  writer 
  and 
  the 
  Indians 
  waited 
  

   for 
  it 
  response. 
  Almost 
  every 
  day 
  some 
  Indian 
  would 
  ride 
  over 
  the 
  

   snowy 
  hills 
  and 
  ask: 
  "Any 
  news 
  from 
  Washington?" 
  and 
  every 
  day 
  

   the 
  same 
  answer 
  had 
  to 
  be 
  given: 
  "None." 
  It 
  was 
  a 
  heartrending 
  

   wait 
  for 
  all 
  who 
  knew 
  of 
  the 
  little 
  missive 
  that 
  had 
  gone 
  to 
  the 
  

  

  p. 
  

  

  KplA 
  

  

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  ■dim 
  

  

  It 
  ^ 
  

  

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  Jf 
  1 
  

  

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  fll 
  ImI^^S 
  ^ArVl 
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  — 
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  FlG. 
  L30. 
  A 
  modern 
  Indian 
  home, 
  not 
  furfrom 
  site 
  of 
  the 
  old 
  "Mission 
  " 
  

  

  country's 
  capital, 
  but 
  particularly 
  for 
  the 
  sender. 
  On 
  her 
  one 
  hand 
  

   stood 
  the 
  trusting 
  Indians, 
  feeling 
  that 
  their 
  homes 
  were 
  in 
  danger 
  

   from 
  forces 
  they 
  could 
  not 
  face, 
  could 
  not 
  even 
  speak 
  to 
  and 
  be 
  under- 
  

   stood 
  by, 
  and, 
  on 
  her 
  other 
  hand, 
  stood 
  the 
  Government, 
  great 
  and 
  

   strange, 
  almnst 
  unapproachable, 
  hut 
  which 
  alone 
  held 
  the 
  power 
  to 
  

   avert 
  the 
  feared 
  disaster. 
  

  

  With 
  the 
  spring 
  came 
  a 
  firm 
  resolve 
  to 
  follow 
  that 
  petition 
  and 
  

   make 
  it 
  heard 
  by 
  those 
  who 
  had 
  the 
  power 
  to 
  act 
  on 
  it. 
  A 
  long, 
  and 
  

   for 
  a 
  time 
  a 
  single-handed, 
  campaign 
  followed. 
  Addresses 
  were 
  made 
  

   by 
  Miss 
  Fletcher 
  in 
  Washington 
  before 
  congressional 
  committees, 
  

   before 
  churches, 
  in 
  the 
  parlors 
  of 
  leading 
  citizens, 
  until 
  the 
  storj 
  

   of 
  the 
  Omaha 
  people 
  bore 
  results 
  in 
  the 
  passage 
  of 
  the 
  act 
  of 
  Au- 
  

   gust 
  7, 
  1SS2 
  (see 
  p. 
  624). 
  The 
  following 
  year 
  the 
  provisions 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  