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On the recordFebruary 9, 1890
Warning is hereby also expressly given to all persons not to enter or make settlement upon any of the tracts of land specially reserved by the terms of said act or by this proclamation, or any portion of any tracts of land to which any individual member of either of the bands of the Great Sioux Nation or the Ponca tribe of Indians shall have a preference right under the provisions of said act.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Proclamation 295—Sioux Nation of Indians

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