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Indian territory May 20th 1879

The following statement was made to me by [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] White Eagle, the head-chief of the Ponca Tribe. I translated it into English for him and give it just as he gave it to me. My father and I had been sent [[insertion]] by Mr T.H. Tibbles [[/insertion]] to the Ponca Reserve to find out the condition of the tribe and gather all the information we could. They told us many things of which we could not tell the half [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] and [[/insertion]] White Eagle asked me to write this statement for him so that it could be read by all the White people. Bright Eyes. Susette LaFlesche
"White Eagles statement"
In the spring of 1877 we were all living quietly on our farms and at work. We had been working on our farms for the last three years and we had laid plans to work harder than ever during the year of 1877, when suddenly there came to our Reserve a White man who professed to have come from the President. His name was [[]strikethrough]] Campbell [[/strikethrough]] He called us all to the church and we went. We had seen this man before and he had appeared to be a good friend

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