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Show Reverend White feat her Up In Arms Over Plan To Take A way Reserve Piute Indians near Fallon. New. are up in arms over a proposal sent by the Fallon Commercial club to congress con-gress In regard to the opening of the 1'lute reservation to white men, ac-i ac-i cording to a letter received in ugden this morning from Whltefeather, a member of the tribe. Whltefeather admlto being on the point of staging a war dance. He has directed his epistle to "The Augnn Dalley News, in care of the American Ltagon, Augon, Utah." Whitefeather's letter, exactly as he wrote it, follows: News from Nevada lam Wrlghtlng to this augon paper I am a Indian my self i all so was o 60lder a while this war came up 1 am asking the Amer- lnn Innpnn In (lrrlAn In Klirbf fhil bill the Fallon nevada Commercial Club sent to Congress a few days a go About Opny the pyute Reslvatlob for White man Setlmeht we was In, I ii Cduncle last night and all Indians here are In war Dance to night we have lots of hard feallngs here for some white man mr Kent of Fcllon Nev I dont see has any Hlsness to try to open the Indian.-; lands of nevada when their Is more land outside of DMlwiiMAn TV,... i An O . , t I ment And belter land then we have got MR Kent said wt do not work j our lands and Why dont we work I our lands we do we level land ever j winter, i would like to know why 'MR. Kent And others of that Bunch j dont work all their land we Indians ! are Not Crazz y-i we are going to hold our lands any hw dont Cart.- fori Fallon Club any how one time the Govment give all, nevada Indian 16o Akor Alotment And then after some little time the Govment made agrca- ment with I he Nevada, Indian to givei them 10 Akors of land And waterl write free Of Charge. I (lr,nt care for! Rich Fallon Club for i a- . - v.f .. r and Indian at that i went to Fight for my Country and his Country and I and my tribe shell be treated write while I live, the wourld may know that our Indians was not Blakers like lots of White men was In time of war we was not to be found Drafted oathcr. I am American Indian 1 stand Foi my Country and my land & my tribes land, we know that we have A number of Akers that is not in Cultvuilon, but you REaders must L'nder stand that In nevada and utah & other states have jest as Good land as ever laid out ot dores and now the Comerlcal Club like To take the Indian Lands away from us Indians, JhM out side of This Pyute REslva-tlon REslva-tlon Their is more then 15000 ACKERS of land that Was Thrown open to white mans setlment Better then any land In the REslvatlon why dont they settle on that land 1 can tell you why The Comerlcal Club wants to start somthlng that cant be sloped Indians do not hafto go to I Fallon to spend Their Money we are not Vet hungry not one of us. Peo-ples Peo-ples Of Nevada must 1 think we are Lower down then cows & horses we have a better Hart TOward man Kind Then the white man does for his white brothcrn do. 1 dm A minister of Christs Teach-j Teach-j Ings Hut 1 must say It Certlnaly MY Misness TO help my fellow man i must say one word lr 1 dond stand At the Latter day on the Throng 1 know they Comerlcal wont, 1 have ben to 1 school a little and 1 am hated by a great meny while Man Becaus the I Govment has given me Schooling, so the white man or Any budy cant Cheat me out of nothing, no Sir 1 am ji si as smart as Some white man If 1 am un Indian 1 will close hopping you will send me a coppy of your ,.i,'cr With this few words of news in it RE VK RANT U HITEFEATHLR, Fallon Nevada Indian School. |