The head of each family would contribute part of the money they had received from the government. The money was a payment for lands that had been taken from the Indians. Now they could buy back some of that land. Two days before the papers were to be signed, everything changed. Five Ottawa families announced that they were leaving. Without their share of money there would not be enough to purchase the land. The spokesman for the five was a young man named Ke che gaw baw, the eldest son of one of the families. “The white man will take more and more of the land around us,” he said. “Soon there will be no animals left to hunt. We do not wish to be farmers and do women’s work. We wish to stay hunters. After the boiling of the maple sap is over, we will travel north to the greatest of all the lakes, Kitchi-Gami. That is where we will make our new home.” Papa and I were in the Indian village at the end of March when the five Ottawa families walked away from the camp. They took all they owned with them.
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