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softly on the ground and say as you put it down: God, I give back your little bird.  Have pity on me as I have pity on your bird."

After a hard day's labor he took a severe cold, and died very suddenly, September 23, 1888.

The shite people came from miles around to attend his funeral.  It is said to have been the largest funeral procession in that part of the state.  He is buried I the cemetery just south of Bancroft, where a modest marble shaft marks the last resting-place of this most remarkable man.

GRA-TAH-NAH-JA, or STANDING HAWK

Standing Hawk was one of the hereditary chiefs of the Omaha tribe.  He lived for many years after the treaty was made, near the Omaha Mission, in a two-story frame house, which had been built by Iron eye, in the early years of his residence there, and used partly for a trading post.  Standing Hawk was a thorough Indian, and believed in all the Indian superstitions, and practised them until the day of his death.  He was a man of good character, and farmed so far as he was able to do so.

He believed in owning lands in severalty, and often said that while he was too old to learn the white people's ways, his children should learn them.