My grandfather, the old chief, has said he should be no more a chief.

It was wrong, very wrong; the Manitou is angry.

Is the buffalo less a buffalo when he grows old, or the eagle less an eagle when a hundred winters have whitened his wings?
No! their nature cannot change, not more than that of a chief and that chief, a chief of the Shoshones! "Owato Wanisha will remain what he is; he is too young to be the great chief of the whole of a great nation.

His wish is good, but his wisdom is of yesterday; he cannot rule.

To rule belongs to those who have deserved doing so, by long experience.