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chiefs thought that was all good ; they thought the President was doing 

 a kindness. I never spoke my mind to any one. I talk to yon because 

 you come from Washington. All the agents talk diiferently. You talk 

 as Governor Stevens did. I hear what you say. Every agent who 

 comes here, I don't know them. I thought all Governor Stevens said 

 was very good. Perhaps the President thinks all the Indians are good, 

 as they were to be under the treaty ; but they are not, they are Indians 

 still. I think there was plenty of money sent by the President, but I 

 think much did not come here. Perhaps it gets scattered.) I really 

 think it does not come. When it comes, it is in calico. But I know 

 more is sent than gets here. 



By Spae,, the chief at that time, since dead : 



When I came here I was young, and did not know much. I was here 

 when the reservation was opened, and know what was done. When the 

 agents came, they never taught us anything; never said, "Go and fix 

 your places." All they think of is to steal, to sell the reservation cattle 

 and reservation hay ; to sell the fruit and get all they can ; to go and 

 log and sell them. That is all every agent has done. They never 

 advised us what to do, never helped us. After I had seen all this, I was 

 sorry. Did the President send men for this, to come and get what 

 money they could out of the reservation and their pay 1 I know the 

 Indians lose all their cattle. When they get the money, where does it 

 go *? When I ask about it, they say they will punish me. I thought the 

 President did not send them for that. I got very poor, and wanted to 

 borrow the reservation team. You know what I have done. They re- 

 fused me the use of the cattle. 



By Duke Williams : 



I am glad to see you. All our folks are very poor. Our i^lanting 

 grounds and logs and apples and hay are taken from us, and I felt sad, 

 and wanted to go and see the President. I know I will not live long. 

 I asked the Indians to give me the money, and I would go and see the 

 President. I would have gone if you had not come here. Did the 

 President send men here as agents to log and get all the benefits *? That 

 is what I wanted to go and ask the President. 



By Big John, a subchief : 



You come to get the Indians' hearts. You ought to take time. You 

 are the great chief, and we want you to hear us. When we talked before, 

 it was put down, and they said it would go to Washington. We do not 

 know what became of it. We don't think the President saw it. We think 

 it don't go far from here. I am a poor man. You are making all of these 

 young men and women happy, I thought, when a boy, that we would 

 get all of the money that was promised. White men don't give things 

 away. They don't take a shirt or a blanket for lands. They get gold 

 and silver. The Indians don't get money for their country. 



These are sam^iles of their orations on this subject, and enough to 



