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Suppai Tom, second chief of the tribe was very anxious to possess land within the natural [not legible] a basin known as Rain Tank. From reliable sources I learned that this had been the home of his family for many years. The night I spent there they were greatly excited over the news that two white men and one white woman had entered Rain Tank and claimed it. I wrote a letter warning them off. Since then I have been shown a map upon which is not lived a Suppai Reservation. If this be true I suppose they have no right to Rain Tank in any other spot away from said reservation. If they have no reservations I think Suppai Tom is clearly entitled to Rain Tank under the Allotment Act of 1887. In conclusion: If any help be given these people it should be in the form of a good man who is capable of properly instructing them in all the acts of farming. Without such guidance anything given them might as well be thrown in the bottom of
