The Council Room was described as an area where the Bent St. Vrain Company hosted Indian leaders. Here, the company also gave feasts for the Indians and smoked pipes with the chiefs. The success of these encounters weighed heavily on whether or not they would trade, and so this became very important. On these occasions the meeting was "flavored" by speech-making and the graceful movements of sign language. Accounts of the room don't mention much furniture. However, there were buffalo robes to sit on during bargaining sessions.

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