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us down to Yanktown, and brought us before eight officers.  The head officer said: 'We have heard many complaints about you.  We have had four letters making complaints... I have read in the papers you have been badly treated...'

"Then we told the soldiers all about it and the soldiers were angry at what had been done, and the head officer said: ' I will send a telegram to Washington, but you will stay here until I hear from it. ... I have known your tribe a long time, and you have all done well, and learned how to work...Some rascals are trying to swindle you out of your land and stock....' After a little while we went back on the reservation....Then these men got up another council.  The half-breeds who belong to the tribe are most all bad men...and go with the agents and traders....They all wanted to go to the Indian territory.  But not one of the Poncas would agree to go.  At this council there was a white man who came to talk for us.  He was a lawyer....He got very angry at last, and said they were thieves and scoundrels...they would not let him talk any more.  "...We must all go the Indian Territory...Soon after this the half-breeds belonging to the tribe, numbering ten men and their families, packed up and started.  This white lawyer...said, 'If the soldiers come and