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<br />0173 <br /> <br />opinion, tend to perpetuate and strengthen a reciprocal <br /> <br />feeling by the whites for them, and the fact that not a <br /> <br />single white person was present during the council except <br /> <br />those connected with the commission or agency. Thus is <br /> <br />provided a background for the convening of the treaty <br /> <br />council at Los pinos on Saturday morning Sept. 6, 1873. <br /> <br />The Council, having convened on Sat. Sept. 6, was <br /> <br />continued the following Monday but the real business of <br /> <br />the commission received little attention on these two <br /> <br />days, as the Indians insisted upon bringing up questions <br /> <br />in which they felt a more direct interest, such as their <br /> <br />eastern and southern boundary lines in regard to both of <br /> <br />which they persistently asserted the Government had not <br /> <br />kept faith with them. <br /> <br />In conversation with Ouray on the morning of the sixth <br /> <br />it had been decided to meet at 2 o'clock that afternoon. <br /> <br />Mr. Brunot in this conversation explained the reason for <br /> <br />his delay and told Ouray of the effort he had been making <br /> <br />to secure the return of his son, and read to him a letter <br /> <br />from Superintendent Hoag of Lawrence, Kansas. Stating that <br /> <br />agent Miles had gone to the Arapahoe camp the 18th of August <br /> <br />to get the boy and that word was expected from him <br /> <br />every day. He told Ouray he had waited for the boy as long <br /> <br />as he thought possible and then left word that in case the <br /> <br />-23- <br />