"You are a brave woman and a true mother.
I understand now why your son so bravely con-
quered our band, and took my sister and myself
captive. I hated him at first, but now I admire
him, because he did just what my father, my
brother or my husband would have done had
they opportunity. He did even more. He
saved us from the tomahawks of his fellow-war-
riors, and brought us to his home to know a
noble and a brave woman.

"I shall never forget your many favors shown
to us. But I must go. I belong to my tribe
and I shall return to them. I will endeavor to be
a true woman also, and to teach my boys to be
generous warriors like your son."

Her sister chose to remain among the Sioux all
her life, and she married one of our young men.

"I shall make the Sioux and the Ojibways,"
she said, "to be as brothers."

There are many other instances of intermar-
riage with captive women. The mother of the
well-known Sioux chieftain, Wabashaw, was an
Ojibway woman. I once knew a woman who
was said to be a white captive. She was married
to a noted warrior, and had a fine family of five
boys. She was well accustomed to the Indian
ways, and as a child I should not have suspected

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