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so bad, and cruel as might be informed from my former report and letters, although there is still much that is wrong and cruel. This wrong and cruelty on the part of these people towards the Freedman, is the result of bad and improper laws of these nations - a slave code - which is considered by them as still in force and executed upon all blacks accordingly. A treaty embodying correct principles will be the most speedy and sure correction of this evil.

There is quite a strong sentiment in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, in favor of sectionizing the country and the organization of a territorial government.

These nations will look with no disfavor upon the location of the Freedman of their tribes, by the Government upon a portion of the leased country along the False Washita, or in that vicinity, and I respectfully recommend that a reservation, of at least thirty six miles