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page number 55 Aug - They proved to be another body of Crows from the same village as those came from yesterday, and had a white man along as interpreter. His name was Peter Shane and is one of those French Canadians that are so often spoken of by writers on this section of the country. He lives at Fort Benton most of the time and had been employed by the Crows to take them to Fort Union to the treaty and since then he has been with them. He says they had a treaty at Ft. Benton on the 19th unclear and that the Sioux shook hands with the white men. All the chiefs had papers from the commissioner signed by authority of A Johnson and one of them ("White Mouth")