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which had been actually begun by the Sioux and other powerful northern tribes, in which his knowledge of Indian character, language, customs, and habits, enabled him to save the government millions of dollars and both races all the bloodshed which must have ensued, which he accomplished by going personally into the Indian camps and spending days in talking to them, inducing them by force of reason, instead of force of arms to voluntarily enter upon a new mode of life; [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough] ^[[in the consideration of]] over seventy-five