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No 3 Sa, la wa & Situwegi

 To Sa la wa and Sa lu a wa kee & the members of council and the people in General in the valley towns

  Brothers. this paper will be read to all of you by our friend and brother the Revd Daniel S. Buttrick who may wish to know the object of his desires to

reside with an Indian family in that part of our nation, and hi is very deserous to learn our language which induces him to reside with a family where no english is spoken, so that he may be enabled to learn our language the faster, and recommend him to you all that he is worthy of your kindness towards him and he is a friend to all red men, who will also talk to some of you and tell you the will of god our Saviour who is our creator and preserver of our lives while we are here on Earth, and what he has desired all men Should do & to become the ?ss of Heaven. The place of everlasting happiness after our bodies and breath parts in which we now live, and for his great purposes he wishes to learn our language in order to explain the word of god more fully then can be done through an Interpreter, and it is my desires to you all, to trust him with kindness and friendship while he remains among you these or at any time he may wish to go thereafter, who has been sent from the north by the great and