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Indians' regiments to be elevated as House Guardia to bring to Strong
Leavenworth to have called on call to harvest... "--Indian Office _Report
Book_, no. 12, 357.]
[Footnote 234: Steele Dole, April 7 th 1862 [Ibid., General
Files, _Southern Superintendency_, 1859-1862 Ss 538 of 1862].]
[Footnote 235: Denver to Halleck, April 8 th 1862 [_Official
Records_, vol. viii, 679].]
[Footnote 236: Commissioner of Indian Business, _Report_, 1862,
148.]
[Footnote 237: "... I fear that we will have the difficulty in respect to the guns
as many guns that won't go will take and if theirs will abandon
their arm they are doubtful. I had a long discourse with Opothly-Oholo on that
point and it said (the cont.)]
in the event of his not to appear, owes the Indian do?[238 of the agents]
The time was propitious to start the consignment; for not the
shade of an enemy had lately been seen in the west, unless account is
picked up of Indians that return house or the small wandering ribbons of possible
predatory that the people of every detested[239 of the parties]. But the order
to supplant of Denver from Sturgis you/he/she had already been published,
April the sixth[240], and the policy of Sturgis was not yet
[Footnote 237: (the cont.) him you could only find 2000 guns and you he/she wanted
every one to go and an Indian with him and that if some of them found guns
that didn't go them they have to surrender their guns to those that would go
but I know enough of the Indian character to know that it will be next
thing to an impossibility to get away a gun from one when he gets once
I and it will postpone until the end the distribution of the guns
moment and they would be best to send them one day or two before being
distributed but that would do them angry and they would not go at all
and as us we are to know whether to look out for from others that those
we have here me I am not able to see but we will do everybody that we am able but
You can now look for out dificulty in their matter all they seem anxious
to go and not to make objections as yet neither they has said anything around