angers to me, makes my heart feel high. I think of this and when I
get back I shall still think of it, and it will be just as though I was
here. I will never forget these men sitting here as my friends, as long
as I live. We have been treated kindly and this I shall never forget. I
would like a nice little story of this meeting so that I can show it to my
friends.

CHIEF UMAPINE: I have come from the far distant mountains of Oregon to
meet the chiefs in council. I cannot understand their language; I can
only talk to them in signs, but I have great respect for them. We each
have two hands, two feet, two eyes, two ears, but one nose, one mouth, one
head, and one heart. We all breathe the same air; we are all, therefore,
brothers. On my journey to this land, where in former years I have chased
the buffalo and fought the hostile Sioux who came to steal our horses and
women, I saw the old buffalo trails where these great beasts used to march
in single file, each walking in the footsteps of the other until they had
worn deep their trail. The snows of many winters have cut the trail deep
like an irrigating ditch, and when I thought of the buffalo I cried in my
heart. I have taken these great chiefs by the hand, I have been glad to
meet them; I must now say farewell forever, and my heart is more lonely
than when I think of the buffalo.

CHIEF TIN-TIN-MEET-SA: My idea of this meeting is that we are doing a
great thing. I am of old age and I feel strange to these people whom I
have met here at this place for the first time. I know that after this
meeting is over we will all of us go back to our own country, probably
never to see one another again, or talk any more to each other. The man
who was sent here to do this work has been very kind to the Indians and is
a fit man to do this kind of work. The work he is doing is one of the
greatest works that has ever been done. The record here made will not
perish. We will soon all be gone, but the record will last. I have no
hard feelings toward any one in this camp, and I am only worrying about my
hay at home.

CHIEF PRETTY VOICE EAGLE: The meeting of the chiefs is to me a great
thing in many ways. First: I was glad to come here and meet the chiefs
from all over the country, and see many whom I had never seen before, and
talk to them by sign language. It is a great sign to me that we have all
met here, met in peace. We had this feeling before we came, but now that