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it would be done.  They thought there would be a suit, a decision by the courts and then the government would issue an order for them to go.  Some could go in the way indicated, and some could not, for they had no teams, but, he said, he was the least of the chiefs and would not undertake to speak for them or the tribe.  He informed me that some weeks before an order from Washington had been read to the chiefs in council by the Agent, Whiting.  This order said that the Poncas were free to go where they pleased but they could not take any