We Did Not Know There

We Gathered All The Stock We Could Find, And Made An Attempt To Move. We Left Many Of Our Horses And Cattle In Wallowa. We Lost Several Hundred In Crossing The River.

We Are Going By You Without Fighting If You Will Let Us, But We Are Going By You Anyhow!

An Indian Respects A Brave Man, But He Despises A Coward.

You Might As Well Expect Rivers To Run Backwards As Any Man Born Free To Be Contented Penned Up.

Our People Could Not Talk With These White-faced Men, But They Used Signs Which All People Understand.