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and talk about it. He told us he was ordered to do what he did, seemed sincere and friendly, and to satisfy us he sent a telegram to Washington, and after getting an an answer, he said he would take ten of our chiefs to see the Indian Territory, where we could select a new home, and he would give it to us, and give us money for our present home: and that the money for our present journey would be furnished from the Sioux funds.
We got ready and started, wishing first to visit the Omaha Reserve, but this was not allowed us. After some days we reached the country of the Osages, and looked over the country and found it stony, and broken and not a country that