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nor Clarke,) or my fathers, I have heard good talk, and mine 

 has been good also, but there are many here who will not 

 give ear to their words. 



Father, I am happy to hear, what you say about peace ; 

 that we particularly desire, especially with the whites. 



Father, Affairs have been bad. I am not a child, I listen- 

 ed to the talk you sent to us, and was therefore not afraid 

 to come and see you. Those whites, and all those people 

 around me, I consider as my children, and am glad to see 

 them. 



I tell you that I am poor ; who is the cause of it? not my- 

 self, it is my young men. That is all I have to say. I give 

 you my hand. 



La-ceech-ne-sha-ru, the Knife-chief, a Pawnee Loup. 



Father, Here I am before you. You see me. I am poor. 

 Father, I am a Pawnee wolf, and those you see there 

 (pointing to his band), are Pawnee wolves. 



Father, Look at my people, and see if they have any thing 

 belonging to a white man. 



Father, I tell you the truth. I am poor. 

 Father, Amongst my people, I believe, there is not an in- 

 dividual that has injured you. If any one of the other bands 

 can say they have, let them speak. 



Father, This medal which hangs upon my breast, I receiv- 

 ed from my red-headed father below ( Governor Clarke). 

 I listened to his words, and on my return I told them to my 

 people, and they believed. 



Father, You see that I am old, but I do not recollect that 

 myself, or any of my people, ever injured any of the whites. 

 Father, Neither my hands, nor those of my young men, 

 have ever been stained with the blood of the Americans. 



Father, That is the reason why I have come to listen again 

 in the words of my father. 

 Father, That is all I have to say. I have finished. 



