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Page 45 - You have wronged me!'' Defiant, stoical, silent, Suffers imprisonment! Such coarse black hair! such eagle eye! Such stately mien! — how arrow-straight! Such will! such courage to defy The powerful makers of his fate! A traitor, outlaw, — what you will, He is the noble red man still. Condemn him and his kind to shame! I bow to him, exalt his name!
Page 57 - He told me that as long as the sun shone and the sky is up yonder these agreements will be kept. . . . He said as long as the sun rises it shall last ; as long as the waters run it shall last ; as long as grass grows it shall last....
Page 57 - ... as they promised. He said that if anyone trespassed on my rights or questioned them to let him know and he would take care of them and protect them. I always thought that this would be done. I believe yet it will be done. I don't know what the trouble is now. I don't know anything about it. I think my lands are all cut up. I have never asked that be done but I understand it has been done. I don't know why it was done. My treaty said that it never would be done unless I wanted it done. That anything...
Page 57 - Government is giving it — my land — to the negro ? I hear it is and they are selling it. This can't be so. It wouldn't be justice. I am informed and believe it to be true that some citizens of the United States have title to land that was given to my fathers and my people by the Government. If it was given to me, what right has the United States to take it from me without first asking my consent? That I would like to know. There are many things that I don't know and can't understand but I want...
Page 219 - Hotgun on the death of Yadeka Harjo": "Well so, "Hotgun he say, "My ol'-time frien', Yadeka Harjo, he Was died the other day, An' they was no ol'-timer left but me. "Hotulk Emathla he was go to be good Injin long time "go, An' Woxie Harjoche Been dead ten years or twenty, maybe so.
Page 126 - Come, all you brave cowboys; Let's win this fair land. We'll win this fair land If it costs me my life, For the Indians have murdered My darling sweet wife.
Page 205 - It helped him 10 remember, and the more he thought about it, the more certain he was that the Wind Spirit had been whispering to him, but he was not sure he could interpret the message.
Page 219 - My of -time frien', Yadeka Harjo, he Was died the other day, An" they was no ol' -timer left but me. " Hotulk Emathla he Was go to be good Injin long time 'go, An' Woxie Harjoche Been dead ten years or twenty, maybe so.
Page 45 - Down with him! chain him! bind him fast! Slam to the iron door and turn the key! The one true Creek, perhaps the last To dare declare, "You have wronged me!" Defiant, stoical, silent, Suffers imprisonment! Such coarse black hair! such eagle eye! Such stately mien! — how arrow-straight! Such will! such courage to defy The powerful makers of his fate! A traitor, outlaw,— what you will, He is the noble red man still. Condemn him and his kind to shame! I bow to him, exalt his...
Page 58 - I have a farm and a home there on it. I used to have horses and hogs and cattle but I have precious few left now. The white people have run all through me and over me and around me and committed all kinds of depredations and what I have left is precious few. I am here and stand before you today, my fathers, as a man of misery. I am here appealing to you to have the laws carried out.