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that I cannot speak the English name. Here after I will request my interpreter to tell his name to every audience I address. He says that we ran away. He knows that is not so. We asked him again and again to take us home which he refused to do. There are several others who know that this is true. He says that we "[[insert text from newspaper article]] after due deliberation, agreed, in a council with me, held at their agency, January 27th, 1877, to surrender their lands and select a home in the Indian Territory.[[/insert]]" This is false. He proposed to us to go to Indian Territory to look at the land, and if we did not like it we [[word struck through]] need not take it and that would be the end of it.