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Reserve after enduring great hardship on the way, we made a statement of all the facts, requesting a friend to see that it was published in a paper." We also sent a telegram to the President, asking him if he had authorized these men to treat us in this manner, but we never received any answer. After we had left the Omaha Reserve and had nearly reached home, we found Campbell and some soldiers already there. They had frightened our people and forced them to move in our absence and they were just starting form the Reserve. When we met our people we said to them, "Stop. Do not go on. When a man owns anything it is his until he gives it, or sells it. This land is ours. We have not given or sold it to the President. He has no right to it. When we were left in Indian Territory we believed that the government had left us alone for good; and now we find that this man has come back here bringing the soldiers and forcing you to move in our absence. Do not go any further." They obeyed us. Two days after our 

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