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we should think about Him, and talk about Him. We greet you as brothers, and send our love and best wishes to our friends the Quakers who sent you to see us their Indian brothers. Brothers, This is not the first time our friends the Quakers have come to see us, to instruct us in the things you have been talking about to day. A long time ago our friends the Quakers gave us the same instruction; and our young men who are seated around you at this time have heard their talk, and now live agreeable to their advice; for we think that your way of living is good. Brothers, All our young men who are here to day understand what you say and like your talk: they do not drink whiskey; but work, raise corn wheat, oats; and have horses, cows, sheep and hogs, and live comfortably and are saving some- thing for their children. As to my improvement it is growing less as I grow older. Brothers, We that are seated around you believe that what you say is true; I have given up drink- ing whiskey a long time ago, and think about other things. I think about God, and feel that I have religion in me. We believe that your religion is a good one; and your talk and your feelings towards the Indians are good and right. A long time ago your old men talked to us about your religion; and we told them about our religion, and they told us that though your religion was different from our religion; yet if the heart was right, we could travel together through the world and be saved at last. Brothers, You say that you have come a long journey to see your Indian brothers, and now you see we are in a bad condition (alluding to their head Chief who was present in a state of intoxication) like some of our Indian brothers whom you have been to see. We can not help it, so long as the white men will sell whiskey to the Indians. Brothers, We want you to talk to our great Father the President about the white man selling whiskey to the Indians. Our Great Father can pre- vent it, but no one else can. We want that he should stop up the barrel, and not suffer any to run out to the Indians. Brothers, As to the School, we can not do much, we can talk to our people about sending their chil- den; but if parents will not send their children we can not help it. If you get along well with the children you now have, parents will see it and become willing to send their children; as they wish them to learn to work, and read and write like white people. Brothers, We believe that all you have said to us is true; and we wish you to carry this talk of ours home with you, and tell our friends the Quakers all about what you have seen amongst your Shawnee friends--that many of them have good farms, raise stock--viz, horses, cows, sheep and hogs, and many of them do not drink whiskey; but have good houses, good furniture, and live comfortably. Brothers, That is all I have to say. The Shawnee Nation of Indians number about Twelve hundred--they are situated on the east side of the Kansas River, and west of the State of Missouri, they have a most beautiful tract of Country, twenty five miles wide, and one hundred miles long. The Kickapoo Tribe of Indians. After spending some time with the Shawnees, we hired horses and an Indian guide and rode up the Missouri River about fifty miles to the Kickapoo's a small Tribe of about four hundred situated above Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri. They are nearly all agriculturalists, raising a sufficien- cy of corn for themselves and some to sell; they also raise some wheat, potatoes and other vegetables, and keep horses cattle and hogs; some of them live tolerably comfortable; their cabins generally are filthy; and some of them exceedingly so. They have no school in this Tribe. A number of them belong to the Society of Methodists; others are the followers of an Indian man whom they call the Prophet, a man of some talent, but said to be