Note 64 — Chapter XXX · THE INDIANS OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY.
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“What consideration will induce you to give up war and remain at peace?” is the hypothetical question of a certain Indian agent to a tribe of the Sioux in 1867. And the hypothetical answer, based upon his many talks with them, was this: “Stop the white man from traveling across our lands; give us the country which is ours by right of conquest and inheritance, to live in and enjoy unmolested by his encroachments, and we will be at peace with all the world.”