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this business alone. He undertakes it because he thinks of you. He 
thinks, ‘*‘ They will aid me,” and so he does it. Therefore we hope that 
you will aid him. ©O friends, we hope that God may open your hearts, 
and that our thoughts may enter your hearts. Ido not think that this 
man called Tibbles has spoken even one false word. Friends, he has 
told you nothing but the truth. Do not doubt his words! He tells you 
what he has seen among us. He is trying to right our wrongs, after 
seeing us and gaining a knowledge of us. O ye people with good 
hearts, we hope that you will pity us and help him! 
(Two Crows said :)—My friend, you who were going after talking to 
us, aS these men remember you to-day, we have written to you about 
several things. We are ever thinking of you. Weare always think- 
ing, ‘* How can we hear from him?” We hope that all those who pray 
to God about different things may help you. We hope that they may 
regard your words as true ones. You have gone on a journey just as 
if you had been born here among us Indians! We take refuge in Judge 
Dundy’s decision, as it is very good. That being so, we think “It may 
be better for us!” There is no part of this matter about which you went 
to speak of which you do not speak truly! You knew all about it 
before you went, so they ought not to doubt you at all. Evenif the 
President doubts you, he does not know about us. You know about 
us, so you talk about us. The servants of the President have really 
caused him to tell alie! The President has thought, “I have made 
the Indians very prosperous.” And then, though he has done something 
for us (7. €., ordered it to be done), by the time that it gets here, it is 
not done for us, as his servants pull it to pieces! Though the Presi- 
dent may usually do what is for our good, the agents abstract the good 
when it gets here, and we suffer. And when the agents send to the 
President a report, they report to him that we are doing very well: 
they tell great lies!) And as the President promised in the past to do 
what was good for us, he thinks that the agents have done so for us. 
The President thinks, ** Though they generally get what is good, they 
persist in saying what is bad.” And as the agents do not carry out 
the good promises made to us by the President, the rest of the In- 
dians, the Dakotas, are disobedient. And as we desire the President 
to hear about our troubles such as these, we employ the agents to write. 
Though we employ the agents to write (to the President about these 
things), behold, they do not write for us! Notwithstanding they say 
that they have written for us, the agents do not speak the truth. As 
we wish the President to hear about his servants, we write to you about 
these things. . 
(Mazi-kide said :)—My friend, throughout all the days that you are 
traveling (for us), those who are your friends are thinking about you. 
It is just as if one would cause his father to goon a journey. We think 
throughout the day, “ How can I hear from him?” We hope, “Oh 
that my friend may succeed!” He has gone to you (white people) after 
