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TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845
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look upon you, and think of your bad acts that you cannot like your young men, women and children. I like to see you face to face and speak my thoughts, and for that reason now I tell you this, it is long since you made a treaty, but you do not act right. I don't feel happy when I see you stealing horses from the whites; that won't do: it is to prevent that we make a treaty. you must quit it, and never again while you live steal from the whites. now you have taken those horses since you made the treaty, and you have got to give them up--the reason I talk to you of this, is because I want you to name it to your white brothers and have the matter fixed. I don't fear to tell you my calculations. I should be happy and glad to see you do better. all the tribes who talk to you speak the same words. Look at our race in this side of you. none of them go to the white settlements to steal horses. I tell you this, the whites want all the red people to live with them in peace together. I am glad to see you all here. this is all I have to say until to- morrow, when our white brothers will give us a talk: they al- ways give a good talk. when our white brothers get through I will give you more; this is not half what I wish to say. Talk of the Caddo Speaker "Red Bear"- "! want all to hear what my brother has said. I want you, Waco and Tawakoni to hear; it is good talk; it is like our white brother's talk. the Delaware chief has talked to you, and I hope you will hold fast to what he has said, both chiefs and you cap- tains, too,-that is the way I do: I hold to the talks I hear from the whites: that is the way the Delaware talk to the whites: that 'is the way the whites talk to the Delaware. That is what tne Delaware chief now means by saying he is glad to see the people all here together that we may have a good talk and hold lo it. the big men of the nation should talk to their young men and if they love their women and children they will obey. Some- times the young captains get mad, but they had better turn aside and look at the white path. Now, today, the Big Spirit will look down, with pleasure, to see what the white people are trying to do for us: tomorrow or the next day, our young men will hear and listen to good counsel, and the chiefs must lead the young men to the Council to hear good talk. that was the way I did with tribes who talked to me and held to their talks, and you had better do the same: that is the way with chiefs who love their women and children, and those who listen to it will do well.
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