To all who follow, I am taking a sabbatical from Bluesky and getting back to my road trip. Spending too much time on the internet. My inner energies are depleted. Need to recharge. Wishing all of you a wonderful year. Hugs to all. Take care of yourselves.
![Neumonya's response to the clergymen:
"My friends - I am willing to talk with you if it can do any good to the hundreds and thousands of poor and hungry people that we see in your streets every day when we ride out. We see hundreds of little children with their naked feet in the snow, and we pity them, for we know they are hungry, and we give them money every time we pass by them. In four days we have given twenty dollars to hungry children - we give our money only to children. We are told that the fathers of these children are in the houses where they sell fire-water, and are drunk, and in their words they every moment abuse and insult the Great Spirit. You talk about sending black-coats [missionaries] among the Indians: now we have no such poor children among us; we have no such drunkards, or people who abuse the Great Spirit. Indians dare not do so. They pray to the Great Spirit , and he is kind to them. Now we think it would be better for your teachers all to stay at home, and go to work right here in your own streets, where all your good work is wanted. This is my advice. I would rather not say any more."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kjajzkyswsc32afso7ecrrgk/bafkreihh7krotovx3o6pdpfylocmuufwitni4pi6xuowrrq62akj233yv4)
