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Brainerd Cherokees Nation April 30 Dear Madam Miss Ames says her friend were very kind to send her so many letters in the box and she wishes us to help her answer them. She says that you sent a bonnet. We thank you very much for it. Each of the girls had one. Miss Ames and Miss Sargent likewise. I do not think we deserve such kindness. I think if I were with you in New England I would do something to reward you. Mrs. Dean who is now dead wished me to go with her to New England and I wished to go but I suppose it is as hard for the Cherokees to leave their parents to go to New England as it is for the Northern Children to leave their parents to come here. I think you would like to come and visit us and the missionaries. You would not find us living in towns or cities but in cabins built of logs and sometimes three miles apart. And you would not see us going to such meeting houses as I have seen in pictures. Our meeting house is built of logs. Our cabins as I told you are built off logs and the open place are filled up with mud they pull up the turfs of the ground then they hoe up the ground and put water among it and put their children in to mix it with their feet. Some have