1871  Your Great Mother knows that fire-water does great harm to her Red subjects, and desires to keep it away from them.
1912  Chief Red Crow, too, returned to his band with a chastened mind, it having been made clear to him that a chief who could not control his young braves was not the kind of chief the Great White Mother desired to have in command of her Indian subjects.
1963  Many years ago our Great Mother made a treaty with the Indians far away by the great waters to the east.