All this added up to the following conclusion: Agent Crane and his staff, supported by troops, should occupy the village.52 And so they came. On December 2, the troops made a night march from Keams Canyon and before dawn surrounded the village, cutting off all avenues of escape. Troops were also deployed in the village at key positions to keep parents from assembling. After wagons were brought into the village, Crane and other employees began house-to-house searches.
