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^Offered a house?^ in the Indian territory, with fair promises of food and other accessories, they accepted gladly, as they would have accepted any terms which provided peace plenty? and comfort.

It is not proposed to enquire into the treatment of these Cheyennes after they arrived in the Indian Territory. nor to take sides in the rather bitter controversy on this subject n̶o̶w̶ ̶b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ waged between the Indian Department and the Army. Suffice to say that after a residence there of but little over a year, a number of them became so intensely dissatisfied that they determined not to remain, preferring rather to incur all the dangers of an attempt to escape,with a possible repetition of many of