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whole matter over with him, and then I will do what I think best. I know it will not be to give up our land. You have no right to move us in this way without our consent or will." Campbell then said you must go right away. The President intends to remove the Santees and Yanktons also, and I shall start tomorrow to tell them so. The next day he started for the Sioux and returned. I again talked with him. I said "it will cost a great deal of money to remove us. Let the President keep his money, we do not want it. It might hurt him to part with it. Take the money which you said you brought, back to him. We don't want to use it, and we do not want to part with our land." Campbell said "the President has plenty of money and he will not miss it." I said "God made me and He also made you. Perhaps he made you long before He did me, and that may be the reason that you as a nation, are more enterprising and powerful [[insertion]] than [[/insertion]] we are. But God made me. I was born here. He gave me this land

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