1922 Industrial Survey of James Wilson

"Jim Wilson is a white man. He married Rosa Bear Cloud, a member of the tribe, several years ago. They have 7 small children who all look to be about the same size. His wife has her allotment of 160 A. and the children have selections, aggregating a large body of land. This is mostly dry farming land and part of it is in the dry farming land lease, from which they should receive considerable income when the allotments are approved. Jim has not done much farming himself. He has worked with Indians on sort of partnership, taking a portion of the crop. He has done a little farming himself, but nothing in the line of real development of his own land, which was not in cultivation at all until rented to a large farming company. He has no home of his own. He lives part of the time in a tent, here and there, where he may have some work, or in some old house belonging to someone else. He is a good worker. He never misses an opportunity to work for wages himself, or with his team on the road or ditch. He seems to manage to make a living for this large family, with the help of some tribal money that has been distributed occasionally. He promises that he will build him a house and locate permanently upon his wife's and children's allotments as soon as the lease expires on it now. This may be an excuse rather than a reason, as we arranged for some land for his to farm in lieu of his wife's allotment, which was in the central part of a large field, but he has done nothing with it. It looks like his talk about wanting that land to farm was for show, as he had made no effort to farm it before it was leased and did not seem to become interested until it was already in cultivation."