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" All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can. "
Story
Fight
Sides
" But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes. "
Drive
Try
Must
" During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village. "
Village
Through
Strong
" First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot. "
Same
Politics
Laws
" Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians. "
Own
Will
Cows
" I at once commenced the ascent through a shower of arrows. "
Through
Shower
Once
" If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government. "
Nature
You
Faith
" It demonstrates to his simple mind in the most positive manner that we have no prejudice against him on account of his race, and that while he behaves himself he will be treated the same as a white man. "
Positive
Man
Mind
" It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly. "
Present
Protection
Property
" It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command. "
Too Much
Own
Life
" The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do? "
Enough
Rabbits
Buffalo
" The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical. "
Great
Go
People
" The Indian is a human being. "
Human
Indian
Being
" The white men in the East are like birds. They are hatching out their eggs every year, and there is not room enough in the East, and they must go elsewhere; and they come out West, as you have seen them coming for the last few years. "
Year
You
Men
" We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past. "
True
Civilization
Country
" When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out. "
Arrow
Still
Out
" When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says. "
Care
He
Food
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