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pictures to them. They learn to speak and write pretty good English while here but when they go out of school go right back to the bush? houses and living in the sand? on Mesquite & screw beans, grass seed and what game they can get. Talking their own language and forgetting ours. Mr unclear a Agent feels confident if they had good irigating ditches on this reservation that the Indians would be self supporting in two years by U.S. has spent thousand of dollars in putting a ditch from the unclear through a part of the reservation but it was so poorly engineered that the head unclear is higher than the water and no good. U.S. has paid out a great deal of money for this reservation but the Indians have had very little good of it and contractors made their pile. for instance the house we live in is of adobe every