“Brothers, we hope you will make the situation of our brother as comfortable as circumstances will admit. We hope, also, that many of your young men will be willing to be taught by him, to use the plough, the hoe, and other implements of husbandry--for we are sure, brothers, that as you take hold of such tools as are in the hands of the white people, you will find them to be to you, like having additional hands. You will also find that by using them they will enable you to do many things, which without them, cannot be performed.
“Brothers, the white people, in order to get their land cultivated, find it necessary that their young men should be employed in it--and not their women--women are smaller than men--they are not as strong as men. It is the business of our women to be employed in our houses--to keep them clean--to sow, knit, spin, and weave--to dress food for themselves and families--to make clothes for the men and the rest of their families, to keep the clothing of their families clean, and to take care of their children.
“Brothers, we are fully convinced that if you will turn your attention to the cultivation of the earth, to raising the different kinds of grain--to building comfortable dwelling houses for your families--to raising useful animals--amongst others, sheep for the advantage of the wool, in making clothing--to raising flax and hemp for your linen--and your women learn to spin and weave--your lives will be much easier and happier than at present--and your numbers will increase, and not continue to diminish. As we before observed, brothers, your land is good--it is far better than the land which the white people near the great waters, cultivate. We are persuaded that your land will produce double the quantity of any kind of grain, or flax, or hemp, with the same labour necessary near the great water.
“Brothers, we shall now end what we had to say, with informing you, that all the corn and other productions of the earth which Philip Dennis may raise, we wish our red brethren to accept as a token of our friendship. And it is our desire that the chiefs of the Pottawattamie and Miami nations who are now present, added to our brothers the Five Medals, Tuthinipee, and Philip Dennis, make such a distribution thereof as they may think proper.”