"Once, only Indians lived in this land. Then came strangers from across the Great Waters. No land had they; we gave them of our land; no food had they; we gave them of our corn; the strangers have become many and they fill all the country. They dig gold--from my mountains; they build houses--of the trees of my forests; they rear cities--of my stones and rocks; they make fine garments--from the hides and wool of animals that eat my grass. None of the things that make their riches did they bring with them from across the Great Waters. All comes from my lands--the land the Great Mystery gave unto this Indian. "And when I think on this, I know that it is right, even thus. In the heart of the Great Mystery, it was meant that the stranger--visitors--my friends across the Great Waters should come to my land; that I should bid them welcome; that all men should sit down with me and eat together of my corn; it was meant by the Great Mystery that the Indian should give to all peoples. "But the white man never has known the Indian. It is thus: there are two roads, the white man's road, and the Indian's road. Neither traveler knows the road of the other. Thus ever has it been, from the long ago, even unto to-day. May this book help to make the Indian truly known in time to come. "The Indian wise speakers in the book are the best men of their tribe. Only what is true is within this book. I want all Indians and white men to read and learn how the Indians lived and thought in the olden time and may it bring holy--good upon the younger Indian to know of their fathers. A little while and the old Indians will no longer be and the young will be even as white men. When I think, I know it is the mind of the Great Mystery that the white man and the Indians who fought together should now be one people. "There are birds of many colors, red, blue, green, yellow--yet it is all one bird. There are horses of many colors, brown, black, yellow, white--yet it is all one horse. So cattle, so all living things--animals, flowers, trees. So man; in this land where once were only Indians and now men of every color--white, black, yellow, red--yet all one people. That this was to come to pass was in the heart of the Great Mystery. It is right thus, and everywhere there shall be peace." (Sgd.) By HIAMOVI (High Chief), Chief among the Cheyennes and Dakotas.