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Wichita Agency, directing these Kiowas to return immediately, this they positively refused to do and failed to do. The following issue day Satanta was still absent. On Friday, August 21., Gen'l. Davidson went to Wichita Agency, to arrest Big Red Foot and his band, who were hostiles and had come into that Agency, while engaged in attempting this arrest, the Kiowas under Woman's Heart, Poor buffalo, and Double Vision, they party to which Satanta had allied himself, began firing on the rear of the troops, this party was headed by Lone Wolf - who had been secreted in their camps - and who influenced the whole party of Woman's Heart, Satanta and other before mentioned.

         After the Wichita Agency affair, Satanta and his people, instead of returning or remaining by himself with family as the Com'r of Indian Affairs states he has been informed, went up Pond Creek and joined the following hostile Chiefs: