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Show Xjinta council, 68. Game: You are come to talk with these Indians . you see your friends here. You are just come to talk with these Indians here now, and you are not going to take any of cur land. That i3 the reason I talk to you this way. That is the way everybody talks to the White Man, You sit here and you have heard what everybody is saying. I want this reservation to be here still as it has always been. This is where we have been raised. Charley Mack: • They ask now what the Indians say. I heard what you were saying. The Indians here'have been listening to your talk and I have been listening too. I don't quite understand that Congress talk. These Indians used to be good friends to the Government. When the Government was fighting the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, our Indians used to go as scouts for the Government. The Government said: "V© will stop this spilling blood, we will nbt have any more fighting** The Indians said,"All right." and it was done. The Indians kept their word in this, and now this thing comes out here and we do not understand it. Why are they talking this way? why are thay opening this reservation? What is the reason Congress did not talk that way before? They used to be holding hackj they did not want to see this reservation opened. Now they borne and say: "Open it up." What is it? Why is it? What have we done? I don't like the way Congress: has been talking. Before they passed such a law, someone ought to have come here and spoken to the Indians first* That is the reason the Indiana are so scared,- it ha3 come so sudden. They were not expecting anything like this. That is the reason they are so scared. What are the IJWians going to do? It is like sand. You throw water upon sand and it will cave in and wash Off: so with Indians, after a whila there will be none left. The reason the Indians are so scared is there is no more land. If they take this land away from U3 we can find no more land to go to . We are |