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Jimmy Johnsonproceeds exhorting the indians to be moral. He observes the ((Gassyodigo?)) Used to say that playing and dancing after the fiddle and playing cards was very wrong. The indians he says must not use nor even touch them nor must they adopt any of the gambling practices invented by the whites. The indians themselves have danced & they can practice them innocently. The ((angels?)) Told the Prophet to tell the indians that it was very to sell any of the lands that the Great Spirit had made & given to the indians for their occupancy. The Great Spirit, he says, did not make it for to be the property of the old people but for the ((possession?)) of the children Indians who persist in selling lands must expect to meet a great punishment after death. The Prophet used to tell us that none of his expeditions into the upper regions he chanced to meet his friend, ((Ho,neh,ya,was?)) Otherwise called ((Farmers?)) Brothers drawing sand. He said that from a great heap of sand his friend was taking a grain of sand at a time and although he laboured continually yet the heap of sand increased as much as it decreased ((unknown)) he said would be the punishment of those whom are constantly selling lands. Like Farmers Brothers ((although?)) Cooking ((incessantly?)) At the heap of sand yet he could not diminish its proportions so the indians who sells land although he might sell continually yet he never could dispose of all the lands. The Angel's are said to have told the Prophet to advise the indians to always act with ((unambiguously?)) If they did not the white people seeing their divisions would ((unknown)) among them establishing themselves among them and finally ((unknown)) complete advantage over them. ((Unknown)) jimmy Johnson observes to the Council that all this was coming to ((?)) ((?)) To the words of the Prophet. The Prophet told of the events of a future war. This Jimmy johnson Prophet told the indians that a day should come when the white people would try hard to uy the lands of the indians. Says ((?) If the Indians do not act with unanimously, they will be the sufferers. The Angel's it is said observed to the Prophet that such a great difficulty would ensure ((?)) From the fact that this would be so. Many (practices?)) That the Angel's themselves were ignorant what the final result of the difficulties would be. The Prophet was commanded by the Angel's to look at the indians villagecsituated upon the Buffalo Creek Reservation. He turned and looked but where iwas it. The smoke of the council ((?)) Was no where seenvtobarise. ((?)) Was now to be seen of the village but the decaying remnants of wigwam closely ((?)) That sometime many years ago the princelyv((lords?)) Of the soil lived there. This my friend jimmy johnson ((hearing?)) The Prophet((?)) To happen to our people you can all bear witness that what he said should happen is coming to pass.