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you will not suffer from cold in the winter time.
"There is plenty of timber, water, and grass in the land to which I will send you. You will live with your tribe and with your family. If you agree to this treaty you shall see your family within five days."
I said to General Miles: "All the officers that have been in charge of the Indians have talked that way, and it sounds like a story to me; I hardly believe you."
He said; "This time it is the truth."
I said: "General Miles, I do not know the laws of the white man, nor of this new country where you are to send me, and I might break their laws."
He said: "While I live you will not be arrested."
Then I agreed to make the treaty. (Since I have been a prisoner of war I have been arrested and placed in the guardhouse twice for drinking whisky.)
We stood between his troopers and my
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