Lawyer was a little boy and he had two friends, Barnibus and ‘ Iskúutim. They were signers of the treaty. Everybody was up to Weeppe digging camas. The women were out and the men either were fixing their arrows, bows and arrows or else they were fixing their fishing nets. So they went out on the prairie, kind of going up from where Lawyer camped and going up they saw something coming. They said, “Looks like buffalo,” because they had looked like hair, beards. They thought it was buffalo, “Is that buffalo? No.” So they sneaked along the creek and along the bushes and they saw they were men. Lawyer said we better go back and tell.

They went back to Twisted Hairs camp. He told them that we see some people coming and we don’t know who they are but they got long whiskers. Twisted Hair said, “You go this way, you go that way, you go this way and tell the men to come.”

So they all come and they were talking about it. One of them said, “Lets kill them, there is more of us.” North Dakota were about 30 men or less maybe. He said, “We will kill them.” When the women told her about it she send word to Twisted Hair, “Don’t kill them. Those kind of people were good to me when I was coming alone. They gave me food to eat and a place to sleep.” She came all alone by herself to Weippe country. So they honored a sick woman, they knew she was going to die and they honored her wish. They didn’t kill them. They took them in.

Dad’s grandmother told him that Lawyer always said, they were little boys and all the men were in this big two-fire teepee and they crawled under on their bellies. You know how they roll their tents up when it is hot weather and they crawled under the feet of some of those men because you know how you sit cross-legged and they crawled under where their knees are and they looked and were listening to what they were talking about, what they were going to do with these people. They gave them a place to sleep and they had camas. And of course they got fish from the creek and the river. They’d go down to the “big river” in Seine (to dip net fish). So they took care of them.

Those men were hungry. You could really get by with one or two camas and that is all you are supposed to eat but those men were hungry. They just filled up with everything, with camas. They all got belly aches. That is when Clark started in on Dr. Rush’s pills. You read it in the diary how he give them those pills because they all had the runs. Camas can make you sick if you eat a lot of it.