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

I do not care so much about the part on the Yellowstone and in the mountains, but above, in the valley, it is good. I am going to tell yen I treat my friends good. When you speak to me I say, yes! yes! Along the Muselc-Shell and Teton Mountains is Judith Basin. Many men go into that country wolfing; they kill game. We thought, when we saw them, that white men are giving us food. When we have to buy what we want, they will be ashamed when they see us. When we have a friend we take him to our teepees. We give him a robe to cover himself.

You call the Great Spirit Jesus In your language; we call him in the Crow language E-so-we-wat-se.  I am going to light the pipe and talk to the Greit Spirit. (He lighted the pipe, and, looking up reverently, said:)

"The very leaves of the forest drop tears of pity on us as we walk beneath."