The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.148-149

About 1918 Cato Sells was Commissioner of Indian Affairs. He was from Texas and had no use for Indians. He conceived the brilliant idea of forcing all Indians on their own as soon as possible. A Commission of six men, called the Competency Commission, was appointed to pass on the competency of each individual Indian. How can strangers in Washington judge our competency? In our case those who owned valuable land, or owed Joe Sherburne a debt were pronounced eligible. Many received patents that never should have been called eligible. Illiterate old Indians, and some half-wits, who could not read, write, nor speak the English language, much less know anything about white man’s land laws, were picked as competent to receive patents to their land. One man told me here not long ago that he received his while a minor. A Commission of Chinese Laundry men picked to judge competency could have done as well. Many of us protested against getting our patents, but Horace Wilson told us that we had to accept them and no way out. In those days an Agents word was the law. None of us relished the idea of going to jail, so we grudgingly accepted the patents as we were sent for.
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau  
pg.148-149