TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
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a!.·e just like Yours ; my heart as Your heart; and now call on the Great-Spirit the Great Father above to witness it; although I am not known to you; I am looked up to by all my tribe for council; even Pah-hah-yuco himself looks to me for council; we all stayed on the clear fork of Brazos a long time waiting to hear from you but got tired and at this time my people are very much scattered; Pah-hah-yuco with some of his band have gone to the Salt plain on Arkansas some have gone over to the Pecos and Rio Grande; but it is known and understood by all The Comanche that we are at peace with Texas and has been ever since the Treaty with Eldredge; thare has been no mischief done by the Comanche since that time; neither to the Texians or the Tonkawa or Lipan; I learn from your men thare was some mischief done last-winter and leayed on my people but I a~ure you it is not the case; if it was them I would tell you at a word or if I knew who did it I would tell you; if thare is any more mischief done from this time and you do not know whoo done it let me know and if I know or can find out I will let you know whoo it was; I will do all I can for peace; and I know I can manage my own people, you want some of us to come to the Council in Aprile but it is impossable for me or any of my tribe to come at this time we are too much scattered only myself and one or iwo more men left here with all the woman and children; I am verry sorry it is so some of us cannot come if your men had have got here a few days sooner before my Brother left with all the young men for Rio Grande to ketch mustangs; myself with some others could have come down but it is too late. They are gone and we cannot come now; but my heart is there, this I want to be a sufficient showing to you that me and my people are your friends; this I hope will satisfy you and shal be a sufficient Treaty of peace with me and my Tribe; You may think I say too much; but my words are words of truth and I will prove it to you; My path is now made white and I will come my self and see you as soon as my young men returns from Pecos and Rio Grande; I charged them particularly when they started not to touch any Texian or his property but if they met with any of them to treat them like brothers but for fear they may some of them bee foolish I will send a runner to overtake them and tell them again; and tell them that I have heard from you since they' left and your talk was good, and to remember I told them before they started not to interrupt any of your peo- ple; you thanked us verry much for the way we treated your
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