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of ours. He said to us: "the President has sent me with a message to you. He has sent me to tell you that you must pack up and move to Indian Territory." I answered him by saying: "Friend, I thought that when the President desired to transact business with a people he usually consulted with them first and than trasacted his business afterward. This is the first that I have heard of his desire to remove us. Here are some men from the Bankton, Santee, and Omaha Tribes and here are also some soldiers who are friends of ours. I ask them if they have heard of this before. They have not. This has come on us suddenly. Give us time to think about it. Although I am an Indian, I want to tell God all about this before I do anything more. I want to know and see for myself what I had better do. I want to ask God to help me to decide." I continued "now friends if what you have told us from the President is true, raise your hands." Campbell the leading man refused to raise his hands. Hammond who was with him raised his hand, not

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