-- the poet longfellow became a follower and sympathizer and in fact he aid in his famous poem "hiawatha," the female character, he said when he saw bright eyes, i -- he said i see nute i ha ha, the -- minniehaha, the representation of the perp in his famous poem. the so the end result ironically was the severalti act, well tensioned, it was a senator who created this bill. it was intended to provide citizenship for native americans and they were to be given, each would be given 160 acres and if they proved that they had worked it and everything, they would eventually be able to become citizens. well, what happens was these lands that were held by the tribe were then broken up into 160-acre parcels and of course there were some parcels that weren't claimed, so white settlers came in and took those or they would buy the 160 acres from native americans for a very reduced price, and the reservations were gutted because of the dodd severalti act. so while the intention might have been good, the result was horrific, disastrous. just another further irony of this whole attempt to gain equal ri