XVII. Campfire Stories or Glimpses or Indian Character
The Teachings of Winnemucca
Chief of the Piutes
About 1800
Winnemucca was one of the famous old Chiefs who stood for valor, goodness, and courtesy; and was in himself a noble example of all his own doctrines.
Gen. O. O. Howard, who knew his people well, has recorded the teachings of Winnemucca. He ceaselessly exhorted his people:
“To love peace and make constant effort to keep it; always to be kind, one to another; always to tell the truth; and never to take for one's self what belonged to another; to treat old people with tender regard; to care for and help the helpless; to be affectionate in families, and show real respect to women, particularly to mothers.” (“Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known,” p. 208–9, O. O. Howard, U.S.A., Century Co., N.Y. 1908.)
THE TEACHINGS OF WABASHA I.
In the day of his strength no man is fat. Fat is good in a beast, but in a man it is disease and comes only of an evil life.
No man will eat three times each sun if he would keep his body strong and his mind unclouded.
