Indian Papers of Texas and the Southwest, Vol. II

TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1844-1845

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Talk of Chicken Trotter, the Cherokee Ca,ptain. "Brothers and grandparents, Keechi, Caddo, Anadarko, I have set here in council and I have listened to you. My people aud myself, since the Treaty have none done any harm, but walked in the way of the old people and the Captains who had made peace. Captains you have now made the white path plain and I hope no brush will be thrown into it. Captains, you have talked good at this council; you have talked the talk of the whites and I am glad. I hope it will prove true ; if so our days will then be happy. Our red brothers, the Waco, have acted bad. I hope they now understand our talk well, and will keep it. I hope their days may be good hereafter. it will be well for them to act right, and for their children, if they wish them to grow up in peace. They must listen to the good that has been said to them, and bear it in mind, or they are lost. if they take a strong, fast hold of it their days may then be happy. All the Cherokee in Texas are now here. I am not a bad man, I love peace and justice and will not fight when I can help it." Oak-sta,r-ar-lee wishes to know about three children belong- ing to a Cherokee called Chu-ti-koo who is a brother of Sam Benches. they are all girls and were taken on the Colorado in the year of 1839. the youngest was then an infant, the second one two or three years old : sick and unable to walk. the oldest is now about nine years of age. he wishes to know by the next council.

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ACCOUNT OF INDIAN BUREAU WITH TORREY AND BROTHERS [May 17, 1844] Govt of Texas Indian purposes Bot of Torreys and Co 2 5/12 Doz Weeding Hoes 4 8/12 " Tin Cups 1 " Yankee Hoes Handles 1 5/12 " Tin Pans @ $ 7 50/100 @ 12/. @ 6 50/100 18.13 7.00 8.00 9.25

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