Its now april and the snows that covered the bear tooth mountains are starting to melt - small streams meander down the mountains gathering speed as they unleash their power . On the plains my people sit around in stunned silence - we have been told that the US govern,ent wants us off this prairie by ten o clock next sunday april 14th 1868- they have told us via a messenger that we will be given a new plot of land and that they will pay us compensation . We do not trust the pale face for we have long known his treachery - and we know that the pale face can not be trusted - many times we have been lied to - our people are cast from their territories and herded into reservations outside the large towns the white man lives.Above us the eagle soars in the sky - soon we will have to leave - our hearts are here and our souls are in the soil . pray for us.