Harper's Weekly

“ The facts, letters, dispatches, statements, contracts, in regard to this removal of these Indians, are all to be read in the report of the Senate committee that investigated the case last winter. There is not a shadow of discrepancy between them. The Poncas were removed under Secretary Schurz's orders, and in spite of the protests both of the Indians themselves and of white men who were their friends. ”

“ III. The writer says that one reason for not allowing the Poncas to return to their old reservation was that it would necessitate the “dispossession of the Sioux,” and “open the possibility of a Sioux war.” ”