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9,000 others will soon be gathered; the great power of the Dakota tribe, which all told, must not be far, one way or the other, from 45,000 souls, and the necessity of keeping such a body of savages in the current of advancement - are the reasons which influence me, in my consultation of everything relating to them, Personally knowing nothing of the present agent, but seemed has of late been busy with tales of [[?]] to be made, possible removed to be recommended and with contracts between the management of this Rosebud agency and that of Pine Ridge,

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