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tion thereto all existing reservations on the east bank of said river, were set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians named and said treaty.

It will be observed that by this treaty the government set apart to the Sioux Indians the land reserved to the Poncas by the treaty of 1867 above mentioned, without the consent of the latter Indians, and as the Poncas and Sioux had been bitter enemies for many years, it became necessary to remove the Poncas from their reservation to save them from the destruction that would be likely to overtake them from the location of the Sioux on the Missouri River.

In the Indian appropriation act, approved August 15, 1876 (19 Stat. 192) the Secretary of the Interior was authorized to expend the sum of $25,000 for the removal, with their consent, of the Poncas to the Indian Territory and providing them a home therein. An additional sum of $15000 was appropriated by the Indian Appropriation Act of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. 287) for the same purpose.

As an initiative step toward obtaining the consent of the Poncas, in accordance with the above act, Indian Inspector E.C.[[Kemble?]], in January 1877, visited them for the purpose of obtaining their consent to a settlement among the Osages. They at first disclaimed any wish to remove

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