I did not know how to refuse to perform any service that General Armstrong desired of me.
On going to Hampton, I took up my residence in a building with about seventy-five Indian youths.

I was the only person in the building who was not a member of their race.

At first I had a good deal of doubt about my ability to succeed.

I knew that the average Indian felt himself above the white man, and, of course, he felt himself far above the Negro, largely on account of the fact of the Negro having submitted to slavery--a thing which the Indian would never do.

The Indians, in the Indian Territory, owned a large number of slaves during the days of slavery.