ᎡᎵᏍᎬ ᎠᏎᏉ ᏄᎾᏛᎾ, ᎡᏝᏪᎯ ᎤᏃᎮᎸ ᎤᎾᏓᎭᎷᎬ, ᏃᎴ ᎢᏳᎾᏛᏁᏘ ᏧᎾᏓᎩᏯᏍᏗ, ᎠᏎᏃ ᎨᏍᏗ ᏍᎩᏴ ᏭᎾᏓᏅᏖᏗ ᏱᎨᏎ, ᎤᎾᎵᏍᏗ ᎠᏂᏴᏫ, ᎤᏂᏲᎰᏎᎸ ᎠᏁᎲ, ᎾᏍᎩᏯ ᎨᎦᏙᏁᏛ, ᏭᏕᎵᎬ ᎢᏣ ᏭᏩᎾᏬᏒ -ᏴᎬᎾᏟᎦ.
He thought it was a ruse, and he began whispering about ambush and his plans to avoid it, all of which were unnecessarily complicated and impractical and based on the assumption that these baffled and powerless people—whose country had, as if by conjuration, dissolved beneath them and been reconstituted far off on some blank western territory—would put up a fight.