“You ask about the Whitman massacre.  I ask you why Doctor Whitman’s medicine did not cure my people’s children?  Many caught the measles from the strangers.  Why did the medicine poison our children and cure the children of white people?”

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“My cousin Catherine was one of six children orphaned and left at Whitman’s Mission.  Lived with them for three years -- until the massacre last November. She has survived snakebites, stampedes, falls, fights -- not to mention a massacre.”

4

“I’ve traveled in fear of Indians since our journey began.  As of yet we’ve seen few.  Those we met helped us cross rivers or sold us vegetables.  Still I fear.  I’ve read grave markers and heard stories of killings in these mountains.”

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