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17) and said that alone would always give the Winnebagoes a large place in his heart. Father we suppose you have come here today in council to wish us to live long and be a happy people. I have one request to make of you today, Father, and as you have always expressed a great deal of affection for me - you will, I know grant it. It will then [strike] not give you much bother although it will be a great favor to me.

    My heart is much pained from one circumstance, which you are aware of (one of his illegible had killed a man) when annuities come.  I wish a box of money to sekee it with - With reference father to what you said yesterday, dont see why you wish me to go farther already west of the Mississippi near Turkey river.  This is the best answer I can give to yr question.  The other chiefs are [strike] will now talk.  One of our great chiefs Yellow Thunder is absent, I am sorry for it.

Gen. Atkinson - Then had that portion of the treaty by which the Indians promised not to locate their villages in the neutral ground nearer than twenty miles to the river explained to them -