sentences:  Eventually, however, Micaonopy's death ended the stalemate and the army could no longer delay evicting the ad hoc black settlement around the fort and sending its people back to certain enslavement.John Horse took charge of the exodus from Fort Gibson but, instead of taking his people to the site Duval the Indian agent had selected for them close by his agency, Horse and another ally, the black scout Toney Barnet, settled them at a place on the Little River he named "Wewoka" farther from the Creek and the Seminole agency than Duval had counted on.Settling in, they set up defenses against the gangs of slavers who quickly flocked around the black settlement.