If you refuse it there is no harm done; we will not be bad friends on that account.

One thing Indians must understand, that if they do not make a treaty they must obey the laws of the land--that will be just the same whether you make a treaty or not; the laws must be obeyed.

The Queen's Government wishes to give the Indians here the same terms as it has given all the Indians all over the country, from the prairies to Lake Superior.

Indians in other places, who took treaty years ago, are now better off than they were before.

They grow grain and raise cattle like the white people.