When the turtledove returned to the tribe, before he saw the smoke of the tribe's cooking, he heard a strange cry from the front: "The chief is back!" ”

Then it didn't take long for everyone to come up in high spirits.

"Chief! Yes! Our Chief! ”

In the distance, the sound of parrots reciting poems aloud.

"His solid legs were on the chest of the earth......"

The turtledove felt goosebumps all over her body.

However, before he could tremble, he was lifted up by the cheering crowd.

The people carried him up the high and low cornfields all the way back to the tribe.

Only then did the turtledove discover that the house where he used to live had been re-covered with new mud, and the walls were painted with colorful paints!

There was an open space in front of the house, and there were nine more flags in the clearing, and the one in the middle was much taller than the four flags on both sides, and it was red, yellow, blue, and white - the abstract blending style!

Turtledove was still having a headache about how to design his own 'chieftain flag', but he didn't need it anymore. Everyone has taken the initiative to solve it for him.

"Whew!"

Suddenly, a strange chirp sounded in the mountain forest.

The turtledove was surprised, but heard everyone follow along.

The wild and chaotic song of "......" suddenly sounded, making him feel like he was in the middle of a huge tide.

People danced around him, shaking hands and stomping!

The drummer was eager to smash the drum in front of him, and the dancers were eager to break their waists.

"Chief!"

The parrot did not know when he had finished his recitation, and came to the turtledove's side and offered him a hat with various feathers glued to it.

"The Horde will lead you to glory!"

"Your great deeds will forever be recorded in the annals of history!"

"The light of Tonatiu will always shine on you!"

Peso, salt, smoke......

A group of people rushed up and worked together to bring a seven-colored feather crown to the turtledove!

Then, everybody fell silent and looked at him expectantly, hoping he would say something.

In the eyes of everyone's expectation, Turtledove could not hide his excitement and delivered his first official speech since the crossing:

"I remember when I took you out of the Harrison Valley and into the depths of the forest!"

"At that time, we were all unclothed and hungry! We don't even know if we'll be alive tomorrow! ”

"But now, look at yourselves again! Our clothes are still in tatters, but we have started weaving and trading! We still have little food, but we've started planting and exchanging! We have a house! We have mules and horses! ”

"It's all on our own! It is obtained by our industrious hands and unremitting struggle! We earned it by our hard work! ”

"Now I ask you, if anyone wants us to live that hungry, cold, precarious life again, would you still be willing?"

The crowd roared like a tsunami. "I don't want to!"

"What should we do if someone wants to rob us of our property and kill our people?"

"Then go to war with him!" "Kill him!" "him!" The voices of the people were boiling, and everyone was as excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Those who have no permanent birth have no perseverance!

Turtledove was relieved to see that his people had finally gotten rid of their lifeless and resigned to fate.

"Then let's start a new Indian tribe together!" The turtledove shouted in the midst of the crowd.

"Let's mercilessly smash the old order that imprisoned us!"

"The Indians will gain the whole world, but they will lose only the chains!"

……

This trip down the mountain to rob brought sufficient supplies to the turtledove tribe.

More importantly, it condenses the confidence of the tribe.

Suffering does not make a nation, but a glorious victory unites all!

Turtledove could clearly feel that his tribe was finally condensed and formed as a whole.

It's still weak, but, like a seed crushed under a stone, it's already beginning to sprout.

Once it tops the boulder above its head, it will thrive at an astonishing rate!

Icaroba is looking forward to this day!

The Indians will also have their own destiny!

……

There is one thing that Turtledove did not expect at all, after he left, the tribe would develop even better.

More than a dozen new people were added to the tribe, as well as two horses and a mule.

There was a straw sandal shop in the tribe, which was opened by a woman in the tribe, and it only took a smoked fish or a palm-sized bacon to exchange for a straw sandal—yes, one. The price of the second shoe is doubled!

Yanba and his men hunted a lot of prey in the mountains and forests, but they couldn't eat it, and they couldn't smoke it in time, causing white fat worms to grow on it. Children with snotty faces always catch and eat when people are not looking.

A small piece of the slope on the mountain ridge was also reclaimed, and a cornfield was sprinkled with the spring rain a few days ago.

Turtledove stood on the newly raised watchtower in the camp and looked at the bare slope. After looking at it for a long time, you will find that it is faintly covered with a layer of green velvet, as if the corn seeds have sprouted.

"Frog, it looks like everyone is busy with their own business! What have you been busy with while I'm away? Turtledove asked.

"I'm not idle, Chief!" The frog hurriedly said, "I'm trying to learn English!" ”

"Oh, how are you doing?"

"It's too hard, Chief!" The frog said, "That Mike doesn't believe I'm Russian!" He said I was an Indian! ”

"Oh?" Turtledove said, "So, your identity is revealed, isn't it?" ”

"We're all exposed, Chief!" "It's been so long," said the frog, "even a fool knows that this is not Texas at all, and we are not Russians or Prussians or Poles!" ”

"Then he won't speak again? As long as he is willing to speak, it is a good opportunity to practice English! ”

"I only say a few words once in a while, and I repeat them over and over again, either to sleep with Peso's grandmother or with the mother of the four-legged snake!"

"And what do you think?"

"Peso's grandmother is long dead, and the mother of the four-legged snake is long dead, I can't—"

"I mean, how well did you learn English?"

The frog was silent for a moment, and said, "I have learned all these words!" ”

"Oh." The turtledove understood that the frog only learned to curse in English.

"Then he's useless, deal with it!" Turtledove said.

"Great!" The frog replied.

He didn't want to learn English for a long time!

In fact, back in the Harrison Valley, the cowboy who had traveled thousands of miles and brought back thirteen Indian slaves on his own should have died.

Ikaruga brought him back with the intention of adding an 'English learning machine' to the tribe.

- This is the dilemma of the Indians.

They are incompatible with the white people, and they do not share the sky.

However, they had to take the initiative to move closer to the white people. Learn their language, understand their knowledge, and imitate their social structure.

……

On the afternoon of the second day after Turtledove returned to the tribe, Anderson found Turtledove.

As soon as he arrived at the turtledove's house, Anderson had a gloomy face.

"Hello, Anderson!" The turtledove held out his hand.

Anderson didn't reach out to shake it, but snorted coldly. "Turtledove! Are you still proud? ”

Ikaruga was stunned for a moment, and looked at Anderson with a puzzled expression.

"You're in trouble!" Anderson said angrily, "Are the white man's caravans so easy to grab?" We managed to reach a peace agreement with the whites, and now we've all been ruined by your reckless actions! Why didn't you talk to me before? ”

"Uh...... Didn't I tell you before I went down the mountain? Turtledove asked.

"I thought you'd rob the Indians!" Anderson said.

The turtledove was stunned for a moment. "You mean, the Indians can rob it, but the whites can't?"

Anderson heard the sarcasm in Turtledove's words, snorted coldly, and said, "Do you know how rare peace is between Indians and whites? Do you know how much hard work Captain Big Tree has put in to keep this peace alive? ”

Without waiting for the turtledove to speak, Anderson said, "Yes, you are rich!" But what about the Indian tribes outside the mountains? Just because of this move of yours, the whites will go on a big offensive and completely tear up the San Angelo Accords! ”

"Can you use your mind to think about it? Do you still have a little bit of a big-picture idea? ”

"The Indians are a whole, not just a hundred or so people here!"

"You can hide in the mountains, but what about them?"

Turtledove slowly sat back down on the bench behind his desk.

Gently relieved, he asked, "Now that I've robbed everything, what should I do?" ”

Anderson probably didn't know what was going on in the Buffalo Fair, otherwise, I'm afraid he wouldn't know what kind of fire would come out!

"Captain Big Tree and I have already passed the letter!" Anderson muttered, "The only solution now is to negotiate with the white man how to pay compensation!" Ask for their forgiveness! ”