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[[underline]]Bright Eyes' letter to Mr. Tibbles[[/underline]]  2.
The people through whose lands they passed, lands which had once been their own, set their dogs on them. They lived on raw corn & walked barefoot through the snow. They were shelterless on the open prairie in one of the most terrible storms of the year. When my uncle told us all these things, it was hard for me to believe that our uncle, whom we loved so dearly, had been treated so. I think it was the next day after the chiefs had arrived on the Omaha reserve that they met in my house to consult together as to the best means of saving themselves from being sent to the Ind. Territ., and there they asked us to write the story of the wrongs, which has since been published. The Rev. Wm. Hamilton wrote the following telegram:
"To the Pres. of the U.S.:
Was it by your authority that the men you sent to take us down to the Ind. Territ., to select a home, left us there without money or interpreter, or how to find our way back as best we could, because we could not? And did you tell him to say to us, if you don't select a home here you shall be driven from your present homes at the point of the bayonet? Please answer, as we are in trouble. We have p. 3 been thirty days in falling back as afar as the Omaha, tired, hungry, shoeless, and footsore, and with hearts and spirits broken and sad."
No notice was ever taken of it. It was pitiful to see how hard they tried to believe that it was not the Govt. which had treated them in this way, & that the inspector had done it on his own responsibility. They said to me, "If the white people and the Govt. hear of this they will not take our land from us." The chiefs told us at the council that when they refused to take any land in the Territ., they were told that the soldiers would take them down at the point of the bayonet. They then said that rather than be taken to the Territ., they were willing to live with the Omaha tribe on the Omaha Reserve. The inspector