. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. il thewhites brought these diseases among us. A train of emi- 110 The White Indian Boy grants once camped near us; some of their white papooseshad the whooping cough; our papooses caught it fromthem. Our medicine man tried to cure it as he would abad cold, and more than half of our papooses died fromthe disease and the treatment. Hundreds of our peoplehave been killed with the smallpox brought to us by thewhite man. The white men keep crowding the Indians that areeast of here out west, and they keep crowding us fartherwest.
. The white Indian boy : the story of Uncle Nick among the Shoshones. il thewhites brought these diseases among us. A train of emi- 110 The White Indian Boy grants once camped near us; some of their white papooseshad the whooping cough; our papooses caught it fromthem. Our medicine man tried to cure it as he would abad cold, and more than half of our papooses died fromthe disease and the treatment. Hundreds of our peoplehave been killed with the smallpox brought to us by thewhite man. The white men keep crowding the Indians that areeast of here out west, and they keep crowding us fartherwest. Very soon they will have us away out in Nevadawhere there is nothing but lizards and snakes and hornedtoads to Uve on. If they crowd us farther than that, weshall have to jump off into the Great Water. When Old Morogonai was telling me these and othertales about the cruel wrongs the Indians have sufferedfrom the whites, I was not prepared to sympathize withhim as I can now. But I have .seen so much since on bothsides that I am sure he told me the truth. Most of the. Bur. Am. Ethnology, Smithsonian InstitutionFamily of Bannuek Indians of Pocatellos tribe, about I860. Old Morogonai 111
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