I tell you, trapper, if another Sioux is seen prowling around my camp, wherever it may be, he shall feel the contents of old Kentuck," slapping his rifle, in a manner that could not be easily misconstrued, "though he wore the medal of Washington,[*] himself.

I call the man a robber who takes that which is not his own." [*] The American government creates chiefs among the western tribes, and decorates them with silver medals hearing the impression of the different presidents.

That of Washington is the most prized.
"The Teton, and the Pawnee, and the Konza, and men of a dozen other tribes, claim to own these naked fields." "Natur' gives them the lie in their teeth.

The air, the water, and the ground, are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels.

Man must drink, and breathe, and walk,--and therefore each has a right to his share of 'arth.