Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1905-01-20

at the same time threw up my weapon
IN a position ready to shoot if needs
be: The man halted. and again +
demanded the countersien. The man
gave it correctly, and I said pass
on" The man passed away out Of
my sight.
When the man passed away and
took up my armour defense, I felt a
peculiar sensation in my whole body.
Ny irascibilities moved from the
crown of my head to the sole of nv
feet. Wren I demanded the man to
halt, he halted; and again, to give
the countersign, and he gave it
promptly, I thought myself that was
the greatest general. When I say
come, he cometh, and go, he eoetb.
SO great thought myself, ana looking
at the wooden fort said to myslf
have a great notion to make two or
three of my genuine war whoops to
try and test my greatness. I thought
the wooden walls would have fallen
to the ground like the ancient granite
walls of Jericno when Joshua made
war whoops against it, and the i'm
pregnable walls came down to thes
ground, and that that was impossible
was made possible. But on my second
thought I eaid. mo. not at all. I
am here defending the fort and the
people Let peace rule in my heart"
So saying. / stepped on my ground
and began to retrace my steps. The
hour was fast approaching when I
must be relieved from my duty. The
night passed off without any molesta-
ton. EARLY in the morning the cap.
tain sent for me to his Office. said to
myself something must hav, been a
mess on my part. The captain
wanted me to give him my steward
ship. When entered his office he sat
and smiled. He said. ''Mr. Enme.
gahbowh, l SEE you are regular
good soldier, and the best sentinel
During the hour of your duty as
sentinel did you see any object2' I
said did. "What did you DOR II
did precisely as the instructions
were. halted the man, whoever he
was. 1t be had rot complied with
your demand to halt nor given you the
correct answer when you demanded
the counrersign. what would you have
done?' Il would shoot hie heels to
cripple him. Here he laugntsd
heartily, and right there saw that
be was the very man who came to
disturb me while watching intensely.
He asked me to enlist in the army.
He thought could be promoted in
few months. The word promotion al
most upset my whole skepticism. I
came very near to entering the army.
But then looking back upon my work
and my standing and my calling
said, Away away with it. Let me
go on with my work. Peradventure
may save one of my own race thu ough
my fundamentally. Oh, no I must
look back. Here are nv dying race,
without knowledge, without God, and
without hope in the world"
The trooble subsidized little and
returned t'me. But another trouble
came on. It was The removal. 1t was
the most serious trouble that could
come. I thought about the removal. I
have known we'll enough, and have
heard my people say, it was what
they most dreaded and hated, to leave
their country. Po,r fellows
The chiefs and the CID men and
women often come and aek if I knew
anything about their removal. said
out openly, Yes, i think that every
thing must come to affect ue, because
the government has. and is still re-
moving the different Indian tribes all
over the United States, for some
cause, good cause. 1t is always a
good cause, because the government
makes 1t to become such. Here it is.
Just see it. Bye snd-bye. I say, you
all shall be removed. Now it you ask
me why, if you have done anything to
justify your removal, look back a year
ago. See what you have done. and
the warriors who came and were ready
to make a general warfare against
your friends the whites. My friends,
had I not been living man, mark
you. when you started to go on with
the warfare, had not interfered, to-
day all you people would not have
walked on your beautiful ground nor
padded your canoes on these beautiful
lakes and rivers. You would have
been destroyed and swept away from
the face of the earth. And for saving
you and interfering, you wanted to
kill me. and you would have done it
had not escaped from my home. In