"Have I any apology to make for loving the Indians? The Indians have always loved me, and why should I not love the Indians? I love the people who have always made me welcome to the best they had. I love the people who are honest without law, who have no jails and no poor-houses. I love the people who keep the commandments without ever had read them or heard the preached from the pulpit. I love the people who never swear, who never take the name of God in vain. I love the people who love their neighbors as themselves. I love people who worship God without a Bible, for I believe that God loves them, too. I love a people whose religion is all the same and who are free from religious rows. I love a people who have never raised a hand against me or stolen my property, where there was no law to punish for either. I love a people who have never fought a battle with white men except on their own ground. I love and don't fear mankind where God has made and left them, for they are children. I love a people who live and keep what is their own without locks and keys. I love all people who do the best they can, and, Oh! how I love a people who don't live for the love of money." (From page 476, History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians, by H.B. Chushmam, 1972 Re-issue by Russell & Russell) Jim Morrison, Jr. [email protected] www2.coastalnet.com/~g7d3j4nb/