ᎫᎾᏓᎴᎩ ᎤᏑᏯᎩᏒ, ᎤᏑᏯᎩᏎ ᎤᎩᏓᏟᏅᏯ - ᎤᏩᏌ ᏄᏪᏒ - ᎡᎳᏗ ᏭᏂᎶᏎ ᏭᏂᎷᎯᏍᏗ ᎠᏤᎯ ᏣᎳᎩᏱ ᎠᏰᎵ, ᎡᏍᎦ ᎤᏂᏰᎸᏁ ᎠᎼ ᏭᏂᎶᎯᏍᏗ, ᏰᎵᏉ ᎠᎭᎾᏬ ᎠᏰᏍᏓ ᎦᏍᎩᎸ ᏯᎵᏍᏔᏴᎾ, ᎠᎴ ᎦᏆᎵ ᎢᏳᏍᏗ ᎠᏔᎴᎦᏒ ᏗᏗᎩᏍᏗ, ᎤᏬᏗᎨ ᎠᎹ ᎦᎶᏍᎬ ᎦᎸᎳᏗᏣ.
Like Major Ridge, Featherstone chose—in his words—to eschew the toilsome overland route to the new Nation in favor of the more comfortable water passage, where one might eat dinner at a cloth-covered table and take a morning shit through a buttock-shaped hole in a sternward outhouse overhanging the passing brown river face all a-churn from the turning paddle wheel.