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[[underline]]To the Chairman of [[?]] Meeting, July 30, to consider the Indian Question :[[/underline]]

A long and very eloquent letter, dictated by White Eagle of the Ponca Tribe of Indians, was read to me at Omaha, Nebraska, June 21, by the educated daughter of [[strikethrough]]White Swan[[/strikethrough]][[insert]]Iron Eye[[/insert]] of the Omaha Tribe.  In many passages it was as touching as the historic speech of Logan.  It contained the history of the Treaties by which the United States gauranteed to the Ponca Indians a reservation of land in
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