Dear young ones,
for years
I've seen them come
over our borders
like dirty water
over a dam
and they even don't try to fit in
they have their strange language
and their godawful food
and they don't seem afraid
of our laws
one of them even made
improper sexual advances
on my wife
they come over here
and use our resources
the ones your father
and my father
and my father's father
built
and they squander them
but they don't care
they just want a better life for
themselves
and I want to tell them
to go back where they came from
but I know that is not right
because this world belongs
to everyone
so let us open our land
and ourselves to them
and perhaps all these things
that worry me
will not come to pass
do not fear the white man
he will not hurt us
your loving uncle,
Chief Red Wolf Moon
April 6, 1848