big chief then Chiquita will be the mother of many tribes, and our
people will again hunt the buffalo which shall be as the needles in the
pine forest, and no more shall the white man drive the noble Ute away
from the paradise the Great Spirit has made for them. Hear me, daughter
whose breath is as the perfume of the trailing arbutus and whose voice
is like the voice of the lark. It is Antelope who speaks."

"The son of Big Buffalo is as brave as the wild horse who leads his herd
to drink of the waters of the deep cavern, but know this, that in the
sky Chiquita reads of deeds done by her white sisters who teach the
little paleface to say 'Our Father,' and she hears the song of spirits
from another land, as they sing 'peace on earth, good will to man.' The
great Antelope is not a hen to cackle and run away at the sight of
danger. He is brave but sees not that Chiquita thinks not of deeds of
battle, nor the mighty buffalo, which the great Antelope says will
return. It grieves Chiquita that the hand of the white man on the
throttle of the great iron horse is driving our people back, back into
the deep sea where have plunged the buffalo, and in their trail are the
cities where the white children are taught that the red faced Ute is a
dog, a coyote that snarls and bites and like the owl that goes hoo!
oo-oo-oo-hoo! The paleface has widened the trail from the great ocean by
the rising sun to the mountain, to the big water where the sun again
quenches his thirst. The paleface has spread out as the wings of an
eagle until the lands are gone. The smoke rises from the tall stacks and
long ago have we been forgotten by the old Ute warriors who have passed
into the great Happy Hunting Ground, there to live on pots of savory
flesh while we slave in the sage brush or eat army rations and wear army
blankets, which are brought to us on the cars. This is civilization and
it is so that Chiquita is to learn what her white sister does in
civilization, and Antelope is asked to be patient and wait for Chiquita
while she may see the fair sister unto the end. Then if Chiquita cares
not for the civilized life, she will sit by the camp fire and sing to
Antelope and Antelope may caress Chiquita and she will be his wife."

[Illustration: ANTELOPE, THE WARRIOR, 1877.]

"Chiquita has spoken, Antelope will wait, but the heart of Antelope is
sad, for it will be many snows ere Chiquita will make glad the lodge of
Antelope and he will then be an old ma