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  RECENT 
  HISTORY 
  

  

  641 
  

  

  in 
  progress, 
  she 
  saw 
  the 
  results 
  of 
  their 
  leadership 
  manifested 
  in 
  the 
  

   comfortable 
  homes 
  on 
  farms 
  tilled 
  by 
  the 
  Indians, 
  in 
  the 
  increasing 
  

   ability 
  of 
  the 
  people 
  to 
  manage 
  their 
  own 
  affairs, 
  in 
  the 
  attendance 
  

   of 
  the 
  children 
  at 
  school, 
  in 
  the 
  growing 
  appreciation 
  of 
  the 
  value 
  

   of 
  temperate 
  habits, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  capacity 
  the 
  Omaha 
  are 
  showing 
  for 
  

   maintaining 
  themselves 
  under 
  the 
  new 
  conditions 
  imposed 
  on 
  them 
  by 
  

   the. 
  white 
  race. 
  

  

  Here 
  and 
  there 
  quaint 
  survivals 
  of 
  old 
  customs 
  under 
  a 
  new 
  guise 
  

   could 
  be 
  noted, 
  as 
  in 
  reference 
  to 
  marriage. 
  Men 
  and 
  women 
  still 
  

   observe 
  the 
  old 
  rule 
  of 
  exogamy 
  and 
  when 
  a 
  man 
  dies, 
  his 
  widow 
  feels 
  

   that 
  she 
  honors 
  her 
  husband's 
  memory 
  by 
  remaining 
  in 
  the 
  family, 
  a 
  

  

  Fig. 
  132. 
  A 
  well-to-do 
  Omaha 
  farmer 
  and 
  his 
  family. 
  

  

  feeling 
  shared 
  by 
  any 
  unmarried 
  brother 
  of 
  the 
  deceased, 
  who, 
  even 
  

   if 
  much 
  younger 
  than 
  the 
  widow, 
  promptly 
  becomes 
  her 
  husband. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  recent 
  years 
  of 
  stress 
  there 
  have 
  been 
  noble 
  men 
  and 
  

   women 
  in 
  the 
  tribe 
  who 
  have 
  stood 
  steadily 
  for 
  virtuous, 
  industrious 
  

   living, 
  and 
  their 
  example 
  has 
  exerted 
  an 
  influence 
  all 
  the 
  stronger 
  

   because 
  coming 
  from 
  within, 
  not 
  from 
  without, 
  the 
  tribe, 
  and 
  this 
  

   influence 
  is 
  a 
  vital 
  and 
  a 
  growing 
  power. 
  

  

  PRESENT 
  CONDITION 
  

  

  The 
  "period 
  of 
  trust" 
  technically 
  expired 
  during 
  the 
  year 
  1910. 
  

   Realizing 
  the 
  unwisdom 
  of 
  throwing 
  at 
  once 
  indiscriminately 
  on 
  the 
  

   people 
  so 
  large 
  a 
  property 
  burden 
  and 
  the 
  necessity 
  of 
  protecting 
  

  

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