They will be too busy to fish and to hunt.

Their squaws and children will starve! Even now the evil has begun.

What hunting and what fishing have you had this last year?
None! As soon as the braves had arrived at their hunting-ground, they were obliged to return back to defend their squaws and to punish their enemies.
"Now, why should not the Shoshones put themselves at once above the reach of such chances?
why should they not get rich?
They object to planting grain and tobacco.

They do well, as other people can do that for them; but there are many other means of getting strength and wealth.
These I will teach to my tribe! "The Shoshones fight the Crows, because the Crows are thieves; the Flat-heads, because they are greedy of our buffaloes; the Umbiquas, because they steal horses.

Were it not for them, the children of the Grand Serpent would never fight; their lodges would fill with wealth, and that wealth would purchase all the good things of the white men from distant lands.