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were promised a settlement of this debt after 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 if that our great father would then pay them at our request out of our money. The thought [illegible] 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 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 owe them. They bought