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222 men of my race treated as outlaws, and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.

Let me be a free man—free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself—and i will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

When the white men treat the Indians as they treat each other, then we shall have no more wars. We shall be alike—brothers of one father and one mother. There will be one sky above, one country around us, and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief will smile upon this land. He will send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by my brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this the Indian is waiting and praying. I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief and that all people may be one people.

In-mu-too-yah-lat-lat has spoken for his people.

The Piute-Bannock Indian War.One of the fiercest, though not greatly protracted, Indian outbreaks known to the history of the Northwest was the hostile raid of the Bannock, Piute and Snake tribes through Nevada, Eastern Oregon and Southern Idaho in the summer of 1878. The trouble originated by reason of the dissatisfaction of the Piutes on account of the removal of a favorite agent and the appointment of one whom they disliked. Following the advice of a few leaders who claimed an inspiration that the time had come when a coalition of various tribes could over* throw the whites in the Northwest, the effort was made under the leadership of Egan, the head of the Piutes. Joined by the Bannocks, the Snakes, and later by some of the Umatillas, a destructive campaign was inaugurated which taxed the unprepared whites to the utmost for more than a month. Killing settlers, burning houses and stealing horses and cattle, the savages terrorized a wide section which included