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commissioners read articles 5 and 19 of the treaty of October 9/44) we have given them up all the prisioners that we had- except a few Comanche, and these we have been ready and are ready to give up now-we know that the Keechi have one pris- oner now and that Chief there (pointing at the Keechi Chief) promised some time since to give him up- We expect him now to bring him in-some of their people have been killing our people and stealing some of our horses, out west, lately, we do not believe any of these chiefs here have committed any of these depredations-they have some bad men among them and we want them to keep them back. or when they steal horses, to take them and bring them to the agent here according to the terms of the treaty, I have just read to them; There were two white men lately killed on the other side of the Colorado-some say the Comanche did it, others say the Waco did it, those peo- ple on the Colorado and Guadalupe are our people-the same as us, and they must not make war on them. More than on us, if they do not restrain their young men from going there to kill and steal, we will have to raise men to follow them, and then we may follow them to their country and kill some innocent persons. we have got a great many soldiers come into the coun- try lately-they are all over the country-these soldiers want to go after the Indians, but our Government will not let them- but if they continue to steal horses, they will have to be sent, and they may in recovering the horses, kill the men-we have established companies at all the stations on the frontier-if the Red men want to come down, let them come to these companies, and they will be as safe as they are here, but if they steal horses, they must expect these companies to follow them, and perhaps kill them- I have done. No. 368 MINUTES OF A COUNCIL WITH THE WACO, TAWAKONI, KEECHI, AND WICHITA INDIANS Council Ground 15th Nov/45 Speech of Kechi ka ro qua, Tawakoni Chief I heard all the time while I said
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