From Massacre Street, published by the University of Alberta Press in 2013.
well, some say that the dead indians are the good onesbut in his life i considered him a good indianthis is a live indian and i consider him a good one, yesa good, though a live onei seen him, yes, once or twice i am sure ofhe was doing nothing, no, i believe he had goodsnot taken by himself however, i think he had some teai am sure he had some tea given to himthat is the extent of it, he grumbled, i don’t knowi am sure nothing more than anybody elsea characteristic of indians is grumblingit was a good long walk before sunrise, and suchwhen the sun would be at a certain point in the skyhad a parley with the chiefs, with the prisoner in the dockthat one was listening, although, i did not speakto him nor did he speak to mebig bear, he was a sort of chief, i believehe was perfectly muteadvised them strongly to leavethat they had better of, by lettersi am a pretty good critic as to handwriting, generallyi can identify handwriting very wellsome of them i don’t know what became of thembut some of them i know, that wore into atoms in my pockettwo or three little notesi very likely kept them, all that were addressed to myselfbut they were of very little importanceit is possible i may have had othersthe impression is that i carried away all addressed to me