Osage Nation, Oklahoma, Obituary:  No-pa-wal-la

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The Indian Herald
Osage Indian Agency, Ind. Ter.
Volume 1, For the Week ending Seventh-Day, First Month 29, 1876, Number 8
Page 3

DIED:  At the Osage Agency, on the 5th of 8th month, 1875, No-pa-wal-la, 
infant son of Isaac T., and Anna M. Gibson,
Thy dust mingles with the dust
Of an Osage Chief, once strong and brave,
Whose spirit now is with the just,
In the land beyond the grave.
His name is thy sweet young name
Given to thee by a father's love
For this noble chief, of the western plain,
First to obey the law and cease to rove.
His name and thine we cannot part,
Nor time our love for you destroy,
For he was chief of the red man's hear,
And thou, of they parents' joy.
His name's revered by young and old
Thine will be remembered long,
While in the tomb your bodies mould,
And spirits dwell with the white-robed throng.
His arms made strong in the "white man's way,"
Often he held thee in his fond embrace,
And looked with hope to the distant day,
When thou couldst plead for his perishing race,--
But death to both in a few short days
Has changed our dreams of joy to grief.
In God we trust who plan our ways
And gathers the bud with ripened sheaf.
A. T. H.