PIONEER LIFE; OR, 



papooses, against white men, who came, year after 

 year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You 

 know the cause of our making war. It is known to 

 all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it. 

 The white men despise the Indians, and drive them 

 from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful. 

 The white men speak bad of the Indian and look at 

 him spitefully, But the Indian does not tell lies ; 

 Indians do not steal. 



An Indian who is as bad as the white men could 

 not live in our nation ; he would be put to death, and 

 eaten up by wolves. The white men are bad school- 

 masters ; they carry false looks and deal in false 

 actions ; they smile in the face of the poor Indian to 

 cheat him ; they shake them by the hand to gain 

 their confidence, to make them drunk, to deceive 

 them, to ruin their wives. We told them to let us 

 alone, and keep away from us ; but they followed on, 

 and beset our paths, and they coiled themselves 

 among us, like the snake. They poisoned us by their 

 touch. We are not safe. We lived in danger. We 

 were becoming like them, hypocrites and liars, adul- 

 terers and lazy drones, all talkers and no workers. 

 We looked up to the Great Spirit. We went to our 

 father. We were encouraged. His great council 

 gave us fair words and big promises, but we got no 

 satisfaction, things were growing worse. There were 

 no deer in the forest. The oppossum and beaver were 

 fled ; the springs were drying up, and our squaws and 

 pappooses without food to keep them from starving ; 

 we called a great council, and kindled a large fire. 



