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I have often had to contend against his influence shown through whites as well as reds. he lives convenient to the Agency on a tract of land allotted for the use of the Agent: By virtue of his convenience to the office and that unbounded confidence which he seems invariably to have acquired with the inmates of his house he has been able to give tone to the feelings of men, Template:Unclear the views and purposes of our government, and at times threatening the peace and safety of the Indian Country. He notes at the state elections and acts the chief at Indian Councils. He holds rich and valuable reservations within the coded territory and Template:Unclear within impurity on the Agency reservation, whereby the use of his wealth, and keeping up a constant system of espionage, through the unsuspecting confidence reposed in him by his boarders, he is able to shape the course of nearly all on whom I had to rely in cases of pressing emergency. Template:Unclear: F. Currey to the Template:Hice? of Indian Affairs at Washington City.