Biography and History of the Indians of North America: From Its First DiscoveryB. B. Mussey, 1848 - 696 páginas |
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... took him by the hand and said , " I have very bad squaw . She had two little children . One she loved well , the ... took notice of an able - bodied Indian , who , half - naked , would come and look on , as a pastime , to see his men ...
... took him by the hand and said , " I have very bad squaw . She had two little children . One she loved well , the ... took notice of an able - bodied Indian , who , half - naked , would come and look on , as a pastime , to see his men ...
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... took 25 of them , and did them some other damage . Sev- eral chief sachems soon assembled at Albany , to condole with the people , and animate them against leaving the place , which , it seems , they were about to do . From a speech of ...
... took 25 of them , and did them some other damage . Sev- eral chief sachems soon assembled at Albany , to condole with the people , and animate them against leaving the place , which , it seems , they were about to do . From a speech of ...
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... took them all prisoners , and told them they must die . The clergyman , in preparation for another world , went to prayer , and , being a Welshman , prayed in the Welsh language . One or more of the Indians was much surprised to hear ...
... took them all prisoners , and told them they must die . The clergyman , in preparation for another world , went to prayer , and , being a Welshman , prayed in the Welsh language . One or more of the Indians was much surprised to hear ...
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... took from their newly - discovered lands whatever seemed best suited to that object . The inhabitants of America carried off by Europeans were not , perhaps , in any instance , taken away by voyagers merely for this object , but that ...
... took from their newly - discovered lands whatever seemed best suited to that object . The inhabitants of America carried off by Europeans were not , perhaps , in any instance , taken away by voyagers merely for this object , but that ...
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... took two of them , to have kept them , and put red coats on them , and would not suffer the others to come near us , and soon after the canoes leave them . Immediately two other natives came on board us ; one we took , and let the other ...
... took two of them , to have kept them , and put red coats on them , and would not suffer the others to come near us , and soon after the canoes leave them . Immediately two other natives came on board us ; one we took , and let the other ...
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Página 42 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Página 23 - We have had some experience of it — several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good...
Página 42 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 4 - I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations.
Página 2 - I thank you in their name for bringing back into their country the calumet which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you that you left under ground that murdering hatchet which has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Página 2 - We may go where we please, and carry with us whom we please, and buy and sell what we please : if your allies be your slaves, use them as such, command them to receive no other but your people.
Página 117 - The way, and the only way to check and to stop this evil, is, for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet ; for it never was divided, but belongs to all, for the use of each. That no part has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers ; those who want all, and will not do with less.
Página 112 - I was at his house, but when I started to return home, he gave me no provision to eat on the way. He gave me neither kettle nor gun, neither did he tell me that the United States were about to rebel against the government of England.
Página 94 - Brother, listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Página 111 - FATHER: You have said that we are in your hand, and that, by closing it, you could crush us to nothing. Are you determined to crush us? If you are, tell us so, that those of our nation who have become your children, and have determined to die so, may know what to do. In this case, one chief has said he would ask you to put him out of pain.