TEXAS INDIAN PAPERS, 1860-1916 351 squaws and your children. I love my children as well as you love yours and I want my son. Satanta,.......! speak to Lone Wolf, Kicking Bird and all and want them to pick up a good road; to the other Comanche now raid- ing in Texas I want them to quit it and stay here on the reser- vation. This Chief (Mr Smith) has come from Washington to tell them what the Great Father wants them to do. While in Texas in prison I was treated kindly, no one struck or abused me. Some one told my tribe I was dead which was wrong. I mean what I say, I take my Texas father by the hand and hold him tight. I am half Kiowa and half Arrapaho. Whatever the white man agrees in, that is what I want my people to do. Strip these things off of me that I have worn in prison, turn me over to the Kiowa and I will live on the white man's road forever. Turn me over to my people and they will do as the white man "'antR them. The Father in ·washing-ton has se- lecte~ good men to meet my tribe and do what is good. The best thing to do for my people is to relerse me. That is what I have to say to the White People and now I will talk to my Chiefs. (He addresRes his people in Kiowa and on being tcld that he must talk to them in Comanche so that the Interpreter could interpret what he said he desisted from saying more and took his seat.) (Lone Wolf. Kiowa Chief.) My people have come here to-day to hear what the Governor of Texas has to say to them and afterwards we will answer. Gov. Davis. Satanta anct Big Tree being here alive shows that I have kept my word. that the Texans will keep their Word. That as I promised about Satanta and Big Tree and what I now promise will be adhered to-For many years Texas, has been a part of the U. S. Government and has been under the Gov- ernment at Washington and a part of the Nation. Since when Lone Wolf was a little boy. The Great Chief at Washington was bound to protect the lives and property of Texans as well as others of his children. But all these years the Kiowa & Comanche have been Killing and Capturing our women and children their horses. The Texans have not made Capth-es of the women and children of the Kiowa, they have not stolen their horses. Nor gone to the Country of the Kiowa to raid on them. The Texans have not Made war on the Kiowa and Comanche, The Kiowa and Comanche have Made war on the
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