1st March 1847

Mond 1st Pleasant morning. Cold south wind. about 12 noon sun shining. Mr. McCary a Choctaw Indian married to a white woman named Lucy Stanton, a sister, he being baptized in Nauvoo by O. Hyde ^last year a great fluter & player. ^minstr[el] came to Camp last Friday. I heard him remark in Bro Brigham's. when the family of children were playing around him "he wondered how people could talk easy when others were talking & playing in the same room." Among Indians he said "Children were not allowed to talk or make any noice, you may be amongst 100 Indians from 1 year old to 10, or from 10 to 15, or from 15 to 20, & you will not hear a word, neither any noise, but you may hear a Cambrie Needle drop on the ground". There has been 73 of the Omaha Indians killed by the Sioux this Winter . . .