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taught his red children how to read, and how to raise 

 corn, but your people would not that he should, for they 

 said the red man had too much land, and that they must 

 give it to their white brothers. And they drove the Great 

 Father away from their council house, because he had a 

 white heart ; and they called the Grizzly Bear to be their 

 Great Father; for they said the Buffalo are yet plenty 

 beyond the great river, and he will send the red man away 

 there to hunt them. And we will raise corn upon all his 

 land. And one hand of the Great Bear is lead — and he 

 has laid it upon his red childred heavily. But he has an- 

 other hand of iron; and when the red men are ground 

 down to the dust with the weight of the leaden hand, 

 then will he lay the hand of iron upon his own children, 

 and they will groan with the weight. And behind the 

 Bear, smelling in his footsteps, cometh the Fox. He is a 

 weak animal. He will not lift the heavy hands of the 

 Bear from his white nor his red children. After the Fox, 

 will come a great War-Chief. He has smote the red man 

 when in war — but when he comes to be their great White 

 Father, he will do them good. I will live to look up from 

 beyond the great river and see that day, and then will I 

 die in peace." "But my brother, I replied, will not go 

 away. This is his land, and he will live and die upon it, 

 and be buried with his fathers." "No. The little Father 

 at Chicago, has sent me a talk that the white men who 

 bought our lands have spoken with a forked tongue — and 

 I cannot have my land here. The paper that it was 

 marked on, does not speak as I spoke. I will have no 

 other; I will go away. I wanted to stay until the white 

 fawn came to seek the grave of her father, and take away 

 his talk from the rock. But the good Manito does not 

 listen, and I cannot stay until she comes. I cannot leave 

 the talk there — white men will steal. Yesterday they 

 were there and scraped away the moss that hid the cedar 

 wood. To-morrow, or when I am away, they will come 

 and whittle away the wood, and carry away the talk. I 

 will take it away and put it in your hands, and you shall 



