In 1868 the country bounded east by the State of Arkau- sas, south by Texas, north by Kansas, aud west by the hun- dredth meridian of longitude, was set apart for the exclusive use of the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kiowas, and Comanches, and sueh other bands as might be located there by proper author- ity and the whole was declared to constitute "a military dis- triet," under command of Major-general Hazen, U.S.A tober of the same year Major Wynkoop, who had been the faith ful friend of the Cheyenues and Arapahoes ever siuce the days of Sand Creek, published his last protest in their behalf, in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Ile says that the failure of the Government to fulfil treaty provisions in the mat- ter of supplies foreed them to resort to then the refusal of the Goyernment to give them the arms and ammunition promised in the treaty, left them without any means of secuting the game; hence the depredations. The chiefs had promised to deliver up the guilty ones to Major Wynkoop, "but before sufficient time had elapsed for them to fulfil their promises the troops were in the field, and the Indians in flight. been forced to take the war-path, in consequence of the bad acts of some of their nation, several bands of the Cheyennes, and the whole Arapahoe tribe, could have been kept at peacc In Oc- hunting again; and Even after the majority of the Cheyennes had had proper aetion been taken at the time:; but now all the Indians of the Upper Arkansas are engaged in the struggle."^[1]

In 1869 many Arapahoes and Cheyennes had made their way to Montana, and were of those who remained at the south were living with the Gros Ventres; most quiet, and seemed to be disposed to observe the provisions of the treaty, but were earnestly imploring to be moved farther to the north, where

they might hunt buffalo.