February, 1921 
FOREST AND STREAM 
85 
OLD ALBERT OF 
CHEMUNG LAKE 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 65) 
I AM in the city of millions — I can 
look down from my window on 
myriads of bright and flashing lights 
and signs of intense civilization. It is 
now winter but with an effort I can 
still turn from the window and re-live 
the whole of those six wonderful days. 
When parting at the reservation on 
Lake Chemung with Old Albert, he 
gravely handed me a little parcel in a 
buckskin case, saying: “You will think 
well of these things and you will under- 
stand; your heart will read in these 
papers the story and humiliation of a 
dying people; the papers are true, they 
were of my own people long ago.” 
These papers are before me now and I 
know of no more fitting ending to this 
story of incidents than to give a com- 
plete copy of the wonderful gift I re- 
ceived that day at far Chemung from 
that stout but broken-hearted old Indian 
Waw-be-Ahmek — the White Beaver. 
Facsimile of the speech to' the Grand 
Council of the 0 jibway and Ottawa In- 
dians, at Saugeen, Canada West, in 
June, 1814. 
Ka-dah-ge-quon (War Chief John 
Sawyer) to the Council: 
“Brothers! You have been called 
from all parts of the nation and beyond. 
You are from your homes, your wives, 
and your children. We might regret 
this, were it not for the reasons that re- 
quire you here. 
“Fellow Chiefs and Brothers, I have 
pondered with deep solicitude our pres- 
ent condition; and the future welfare 
of our children, as well as ourselves. I 
Lave studied deeply and anxiously, in 
order to arrive at a true knowledge of 
the present and proper course to be pur- 
sued to secure to us and to our descend- 
ents, even to others around us, the 
greatest amount of peace, health, happi- 
ness and usefulness. The interests of 
the 0 jib way and the Ottawas are near 
and dear to my heart; for them, I have 
passed many sleepless nights and have 
often suffered an agitated mind. These 
nations, I am proud to say, are my 
brothers; many of them, are bone of my 
bone, and for them, if needs be, I could 
willingly, nay, cheerfully sacrifice many 
things. Brothers, you see my heart. 
(Here the speaker held out a piece of 
white paper, emblematical of a pure 
heart.) 
“Fellow Chiefs and Warriors! I have 
looked over your wigwams throughout 
Canada, and have arrived at the conclu- 
sion that you are in a warm place ; your 
neighbors, the whites, are kindling fires 
all around you (clearing land). One 
purpose for which you have been called 
"together, is to devise some plan by which 
we can live together, and become a hap- 
py people, so that our dying fires may 
not go out but may be kindled in one 
place, which will prove a blessing to our 
children. 
“Brothers ! Some of you are living on 
small parcels of land, others on Islands. 
We now offer you any portion of the 
land which we own in this region : that 
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