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get the half of what the government actually owes them!"  No inference whatever is here made to the Ponca tribe of Indians.
   You will see therefore that your letter is based entirely upon a mistaken supposition and an incorrect quotation.  In reply to the remainder of your letter, ^[[I have to say,]] that many years of bitter experiences forces me to the conclusion that any hopes for the redress of wrongs perpetuated upon the American Indian, outside of the regular processes of the courts, will prove a vain ones.
    I am
         Truly Yours
            T. H. Tibbles