ΓÇ£IΓÇÖve traveled in fear of Indians since our journey began. As of yet weΓÇÖve seen few. Those we met helped us cross rivers or sold us vegetables. Still I fear. IΓÇÖve read grave markers and heard stories of killings in these mountains.ΓÇ¥
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ΓÇ£My cousin Catherine was one of six children orphaned and left at WhitmanΓÇÖs Mission. Lived with them for three years -- until the massacre last November. She has survived snakebites, stampedes, falls, fights -- not to mention a massacre.ΓÇ¥
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ΓÇ£You ask about the Whitman massacre. I ask you why Doctor WhitmanΓÇÖs medicine did not cure my peopleΓÇÖs children? Many caught the measles from the strangers. Why did the medicine poison our children and cure the children of white people?ΓÇ¥
