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"This land on the Niobrara (Swift Running Water) is ours, we have never sold it. We have our houses and our homes here. Our fathers and some of our children are buried here. Here we wish to live and die. We have harmed no man. We have kept our treaty. We have learned to work. We can make a good living here. We do not wish to sell our land, and we think no man has a right to take it from us. Here we will live, and here we will die."

Then these men told them that the Indian Territory was a much better country. ...Finally they proposed that the chief should go down to the Indian Territory and look at the country. Then, if they did not like it, and did not wish to go, they might stay where they were. They told them that if they went down there, the Great Father would buy their land in Dakota and pay them for it, and give them all the land they needed in the Indian Territory. ...it was agreed that ten of the leading men should go down there and look at the country.

These men took them to the territory... The chief's replied they did not like it at all... Standing Bear's account of what occurred at this time is as follows:

"These men then talked entirely different from what they did in Dakota. They said you [[underlined]] shall [[/underlined]] trade your land in Dakota for land here. You can go out there and choose was you want, but you [[underlined]] shall trade [[/underlined]]. Your tribe will be brought down here, ...I had seen that