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Item Instructions to John K. Rankin, Esq. to "proceed to the Yakama Agency" to make allotments of land in serveralty.(UNPUBLISHED, 1892-04-14) Morgan, T. J.; R. V. BeltEnclosure: "It has been understood that the Indians of the Yakama Reservation have been opposed to the apportionment of their lands in severalty many of the leading Indians having urged that the allotting of their lands meant a severance of the paternal ties which bind them to the government, and that they would be thrown upon their own resources at a time when they were unprepared to become self-sustaining citizens."