ᎨᎵᏍᎬᏃ ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ ᏗᏍᏕᎵᏍᎩ, ᎠᏂᏴᏫ ᎨᎵ, ᎠᏓᏅᏖᏏᏙ ᎤᎬᏫᏳ, ᏍᎩᎾᎾ ᎢᏧᏍᏗ ᏧᎭᏃᏍᏗ ᎠᏇᎵᏒ ᏫᏥᏂ ᏓᎾᏦᏍᎬ. ᏍᎩᏄᏍᏛ ᏓᏆᎭᏄᏬᎥ ᎠᎬᏱ ᏧᏥᏩᏛᎯᏙᎲ ᏓᎭᏃᏫ ᏗᏄᎪᏗᏍᏗ ᏗᎪᏪᎵᏍᎩ ᏧᎷᏫᏍᏔᏁᏗ, ᎭᎾᎾ. ᎠᏓᎴᏂᏍᎬ ᎠᏴᏫ ᎤᏓᏅᏖᏗ, ᎭᎾᎾ ᏍᏉ ᎠᏲᎯᏍᏗᏍᎬ.
My idea of what an agent of the Indians, a member of a clan, a business chief, ought to wear for meetings with government officials expressed itself fully only on one occasion, my first visit to the office of the secretary of war, where all Indian business began and most of it ended.