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 for returning light to the sun, which had been darkened since the war.


 * , Chief of the Potawatomi:

I will not make you a long speech, my father; I no longer have any more than two prisoners, whom I place at your two sides to do with as you please. Here is a pipe that I give you, for you to keep or to give to these two prisoners to smoke at home. I am always ready to obey you until death.


 * , Chief of the Outagami [Meskwaki]:

I have no prisoners to deliver to you, my father, but I thank you for the beautiful daylight that you are giving to the whole earth through peace. For my part, I will never lose that brightness.



I am not bringing you any Iroquois slaves because I have not attacked them in some time, having occupied myself with making war on other nations; but I have come to obey you and to thank you for the peace which you have obtained for us.



I have come, my father, only to obey you and to embrace the peace which you have made between the Iroquois and us.



I would have brought you, my father, Iroquois slaves if I had had any, wanting to obey you in what you command me. I thank you for the light that you are giving us and I wish that it will last.



I did not want to fail to come here with the others to hear your voice. I had an Iroquois prisoner last year whom I delivered to you. Here is a pipe that I give you to give to the Iroquois if you wish, so that we may smoke together when we meet.



I do not have any prisoners to deliver to you, my father. The Algonquin is one of your children who has always clung to you, and who will be there as long as he lives. I pray the Master of Life that what you do here today will endure.



Having no other will but yours, I obey what you have done.