"Have we not always loved each other," he said.

"When we were children, you made me mocassins, and paddled the canoe for me, and I brought the wild duck, which I shot while it was flying, to you.

You promised me to be my wife, when I should be a great hunter, and had brought to you the scalp of an enemy.
I have kept my promise, but you have broken yours." "I know it," she replied; "but I fear to keep my word.

They would kill you, and the spirits of my dead brothers would haunt me for disobeying my parents.

Cloudy Sky says that if I do not marry him he will cast a spell upon me; he says that the brightness would leave my eye, and the color my cheek; that my step should be slow and weary, and soon would I be laid in the earth beside my brothers.