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I thank you in the name of our people for what you have done for us through your kindness to Standing Bear; and I ask of you to go still further in your kindness and help us to regain our land and our rights. You cannot bring our dead back to life but you can yet save the living. My heart thinks all the time of our dead. I cry day and night for the men, women and children, who have been killed by this land. My eyes were heavy with weeping, but when I heard of your kindness to some of my people, I felt as if I might raise my head and open my eyes to see the coming light. I want to save the remainder of my people and I look to you for help. They cry for their land and I want to give them back that of which they were robbed.
When I went to see the President and told him how we had been wronged, he said that those who did the deed, were

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