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were permitted a settlement of this debt after moving. They went to their new home. This debt are not paid yet + will they they ever be? You (the request) told us to appoint arbitration of have demands against us investigated if that our great father would then pay then at our request out of our money. The thought [illegible]the followed it. We have since sent some of our people to Washington + find that you had been told that the Indian Court of our great father was opposed to the investigation + [illegible] payt our debts. You have deceived and you have told him our things + us another I was at your request. Agreeable to your advice that we had the investigation. This you know. Yet we have of your writing letter [illegible] Washington saying you had opposed it. Had [illegible] as our great father was opposed [illegible] + would not confirm [illegible] or pay our debts. You told [illegible] the contrary of [illegible] this + here in our presence you cannot deny it. We want our debts paid out of our [illegible]. We are not beggars. We do not ask our great father for our [illegible] of his money. We only ask him to pay off our debts out of our own [illegible] money. Look about you at the [illegible]. These people were [illegible] debt there by our traders on credit at our request. Now we do not wish to see those traders [illegible] by not reading what we [illegible] them. They bought