Father, When he put this about my neck I heard what he said to me, and have recollected it.
Father, Our young people will not attend to what we say; we talk and repeat to them, but when they lie down, they forget all before midnight.
Father, You ought to have heard whether my band have injured you or not.
Father, There was a time when our hands were red with the blood of your people, but since we have been below, it has been washed off.
Father, We visited our father below; he told us, when we met a white man to treat him well, and let him never fear.
Father, I see you are looking on me; I am poor; I have nothing on me of the make of the whites; I have even turned my buffaloe robe to hide its tarnish.
Father, I came here to listen to your words, to hear what you have told us.
{293} Father, You say there is a God above; I know it; when he is angry I hear him speak (alluding to the thunder).
Father, I consider you equal to him. You are the same to me.
Father, All you see here are your children; they are poor.