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From Massacre Street, published by the University of Alberta Press in 2013.
well, some say that the dead indians are the good ones but in his life i considered him a good indian this is a live indian and i consider him a good one, yes a good, though a live one i seen him, yes, once or twice i am sure of he was doing nothing, no, i believe he had goods not taken by himself however, i think he had some tea i am sure he had some tea given to him that is the extent of it, he grumbled, i don’t know i am sure nothing more than anybody else a characteristic of indians is grumbling it was a good long walk before sunrise, and such when the sun would be at a certain point in the sky had a parley with the chiefs, with the prisoner in the dock that one was listening, although, i did not speak to him nor did he speak to me big bear, he was a sort of chief, i believe he was perfectly mute advised them strongly to leave that they had better of, by letters i am a pretty good critic as to handwriting, generally i can identify handwriting very well some of them i don’t know what became of them but some of them i know, that wore into atoms in my pocket two or three little notes i very likely kept them, all that were addressed to myself but they were of very little importance it is possible i may have had others the impression is that i carried away all addressed to me