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were promised a settlement of this debt <u>after</u> moving. They went to their new homes. Their debts are not paid yet + will they they ever be? You (the agent) told us to appoint arbitrators & have demands against us investigated, & that our Great Father would then pay them at our request out of our money. W thought your advice was good. We followed it. We have since sent some of our people to Washington + find that you had been told that the Indian Comr of our Great Father was opposed to the investigation + to the payt our debts. You have deceived us-- you have told him one thing + us another. It was at your request, agreeable to your advice that we had the investigation. This you know. Yet we hear of your writing letters to Washington saying you had opposed it. [illeg] our Great Father was opposed to it + would not confirm it, or pay our debts. You told us the contrary of all this + here in our presence you cannot deny it. We want our debts paid out of our own money. We are not beggars. We do not ask our Great Father for one cent of his money. We ask him only to pay our debts out of our <u>own</u> money. Look about you at the people here assembled. These people were fed and clothed by our traders on credit at our request. Now we do not wish to see those traders [illegible] by not receiving what we owe them. They bought