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Show hie tribe, have ever molested a white, although the great overland route fros: the states to California passes immediately through their country." A little story sustaining his peaceable reputation and indioative of his noble charaoter is told of Waah-. a~ kee., J- iC' During his last years, spent on an Indian reservation in Wyoming, President Grant sent him a handsoae saddle. The ohief was silent in his appreciation and when questioned, replied: lib « e, i. " Whiteman's gratitude la in his head, and the head oan speak; Indian gratitude is in the heart, and the heart has no tongue." s At the tine of Superintendent Forney's report, another peaoe meeting had bsen effected between the old- tine enenies, the Snakes and the Utaha. On May 13, 1858, Waah- a- kee, of the Snakes, and White- eye, Son- a- at, and San- Pltoh, of the Utahs with sub- ohiefs of the different tribes, and alfio several Bannaok ohief & aoaetabled in oouncil at Caisp Soott, and after much talk and smoking, declared peaoe. 1 Indian Affairs Report, 1853, p. 312. 3 Whitney, Popular History of Utah, note p. 98. |