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a great many people down there were sick. The land they showed us was stony, and I did not believe we could make a living on it. 

"Then the men grew very angry, and said if we did not agree to come they would go off and leave us there to starve... We said it would be better for ten of us to die that that the whole tribe,... should be brought there to die....

"Then they went off and said we might stay there and die..... I sent the interpreter to them, and told them that they had brought us far... on the cars... they should at least give us some money to pay our way. They said they would not give me one cent of money. ...

"Now, there were two very old men with us, who could not travel on foot at all. ...They took these two old men and went off and left us. 

"None of us had a cent of money, and we had no interpreter, so we could not speak a word to any man.

The next morning we started on our long journey. It was in the winter. White men were suspicious of us.... We got a few pieces of bread. What we lived on was corn. We would take it and pound it between stones. We slept out on the prairie without shelter. A few times we found haystacks to sleep in. It took us just fifty days to reach the Otoe Agency in Southern Nebraska. The last few days we were very weak and