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Account of their living. From what I have been told by reliable [not legible] have good opportunities for knowing their reservation does not contain five acres of agricultural land. But even if it was made up of the best soil in the Mississippi [not legible] these Indians could not work it. They are constitutionally opposed in anything so degrading. They will not work farming. Occasionally a young Indian can be hired for a few days to assist in “rounding up” cattle. This is a work they rather enjoy for a time. Like all Indians, they are inveterate gamblers. This tribe, like all others that I am acquainted with is kept back by a few of the old leaders. These old chiefs, nourished with blood, long constantly
