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Image taken from page 292 of (translated from the French) "America as it is. Anecdotal journey by Marcel Bonneau in the North and South of the United States Tour in Canada by Jean Pierre Oscar Comettant with other contributing authors. Engravings by Ed. Willmann, 1866. Through the latter part of March, 1863, a band of fourteen Native Chiefs and two squaws from the West made a journey from their homes to Washington, DC to talk peace. They had been invited by President Abraham Lincoln. They represented six tribes from the Southern Plains - the Cheyennes, Kiowas, Arapahoes, Comanches, Caddos, and Apaches. Standing before the Native chiefs, their interpretor introduced each of them, and in turn they stood to shake hands with the man they were told was the "Great White Father in Washington." "Say to them," spoke Lincoln to the interpreter, "I am very glad to see them, and if they have anything to say, it will afford me great pleasure to hear it." Following their trip to Washington, most of...