CHIPAROPAI

It seems as though you white folks bring poison to us Indians. Sickness comes with you, and hundreds of us die.

We eat the white man’s food, and it makes us soft: we wear the white man’s heavy clothing and it makes us weak…Yes – we know when you come, we die

We Indians only know that schools will make our children like white people, and some of us do not like white people and their ways.

Schools are good; it is right for everyone to learn all he can from everyone. But white people should be more gentle with the older Indians if we cannot understand. Our lives are sad – and we love our children. If I came to take your children to some strange place to learn things of which you knew nothing, would you like it?

It seems as though you white folks bring poison to us Indians. Sickness comes with you, and hundreds of us die.

Schools are good; it is right for everyone to learn all he can from everyone. But white people should be more gentle with the older Indians if we cannot understand. Our lives are sad – and we love our children. If I came to take your children to some strange place to learn things of which you knew nothing, would you like it?

We eat the white man’s food, and it makes us soft: we wear the white man’s heavy clothing and it makes us weak…Yes – we know when you come, we die

We Indians only know that schools will make our children like white people, and some of us do not like white people and their ways.