My Brother, according to your desire and Treaties with us, I have consulted with our Chief Warriors in respect to this Belt of Wampum which you discovered to be in

"Head-men, Chiefs, Braves and Warriors of the Sauks: For more than a hundred winters our nation was a powerful, happy and united people.  The Great Spirit gave to us a

My Father: What you say, and what our great father says, I always hear with open ears.

When I received the invitation from our agent, I determined, when I came

My father, my father, this spring Monsieur de La Mothe sent us word that he barred the great river [to us], that he set a barrier there as high as