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He tried for two days to force us to sign a treaty to give up our lands and we refused. He then went up to the Yanktons and told us to make up our minds while he was gone. When he came back he went to work at us again and he tried to make us sign a treaty and we refused all the time. If he has got any treaty or contract or paper of any kind signed by the chiefs of the Ponca tribe in which we consented to give of our lands on the Niobrara River, why doesn't he show it and print it in the paper with our names attached to it?