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wagons, and a thousand machines that I know not the use of. I see that you are able to clothe yourselves even from weeds and grass: in short, you can do almost what you choose. You whites have the power of subduing almost every animal to your use. But you are surrounded by slaves: everything about you is in chains, and you are slaves yourselves. I fear if I should exchange my pursuits for yours I too should become a slave. Talk to my sons: perhaps they may be persuaded to adopt your fashions, or at least recommend them to their sons; but for myself I was born free, was reared free, and wish to die free.”

The chief of the Pawnees, in a council at Washington in 1822, said: —

He frankly added that he did not wish “good people,” i. e. missionaries, sent among them to change their habits and make them live and work like white people. They preferred much their own wild freedom and customs, and having lived so long without what the white man called “work,” preferred to continue so, till at least the game became extinct, and life became so precarious that they might be compelled to admit the “good people” among them. In the mean time they would hunt the buffalo, the beaver, deer, and other wild animals, and gladly barter for them with the whites; but they did not wish to “follow the white man's road.” These strong pleadings for a life conformed to the free air and scenes and habits of Nature by no means fail of responsive yearnings not only from those