Why do you think you have a right now?
“Finding my father's name on the Choctaw roll of 1830 makes me think so.”
Have you seen it there yourself?
“No sir, I have never looked for it, but it is there though.”
What you know is what you have been told?
“Yes sir.”
Did your father take advantage of Article 14 of the 1830 treaty?
“No sir, if he did I never heard it.”
Treaty knowledge?
“I am not posted on that.”
The room does not turn William's limits into a historical negative. It keeps his answers attached to the questions that reveal what he has seen, what he has been told, and what he does not know.
Source road: OHC_1978, MCR 879, William D. Bell examination, 23 October 1900.