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Major O- Fallon. 



Grand Pawnees, and Pawnee Republicans ; I am not sa- 

 tisfied with what you have said. What you have said is good, 

 but it is not enough. Until you drive those dogs from among 

 you, I will not consider you in any other light than as dogs. 



Pa-ne-ca-he-ga, Fool Robe's son, a Pawnee Republican. 



Father, I am a Pawnee Republican. 



Father, What you have said is true, the Pawnee Repub- 

 licans are dogs, they do not listen with their ears. 



Father, I have never done ill to a white man myself, I 

 have never even taken a knife from him, and my heart is 

 distressed because my young people will not listen. 



Father, It is true what Tar-ra-re-ca-wa-ho has said, that 

 we whipped two white men ; we did do it. 



Father, I am poor, I say, I am poor. 



Father, It is true that it is customary for my people to rob 

 white men, when they go to war, but I never knew them to 

 kill one. 



Father, My heart is distressed because my young men 

 will not listen, they have no ears. 



Father, The offenders have not ears ; they were afraid to 

 come and see you, knowing they had done wrong. 



Father, I came without fear, on a good horse, which I 

 present to you. My people were afraid that I should come. 



Father, I am without fear. I said, when I set out from 

 my village, why should I fear, if my father strikes me, it is 

 no more than a father does to his child. 



Father, We are glad to hear your words ; we will make 

 peace ; we will return to our village, and see what those 

 dogs will do. 

 - Father, That is all I have to say. I have done. 



Chief of the Tappage band of the Grand Pawnees. 

 Father, I have come to see you ; here I am, very poor. 



