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162:. Possibly deducing that the verdict of his upcoming murder trial would depend upon whether or not he agreed to give up his land, he was quoted as telling the president, "You want this godforsaken land, fine." The charges against him for the murders of Mr. & Mrs. Perkins were dismissed months later that August 1879.
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An agreement was reached on July 7, 1883, for the government to purchase the entire
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In late 1880 or in 1881, the military determined that there were 17 bona fide white residents of the region prior to April 18, 1879. However, fewer than 100 members of Moses's tribe had moved to the reservation. Moses himself did not live there, having relocated to the
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Chief Moses complained about the white settlers on the reservation, since he had been promised whites would be kept out. Colonel Henry C. Merriman, the army commander, sent
Captain H.C. Cook north on August 19, 1880 to list and assess the improvements made by the white settlers and to ask them to
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signed an executive order restoring a 15-mile (24 km) wide strip along the Canada–US border to the public domain. Chief Moses and other delegates were taken to
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the east of the
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Chief Moses once asked a follower to count the grains of sand in a pile. "There are too many," said the man. "It is the same with whites," replied Moses, "There are too many."
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