the american indian frontier

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Página 537 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Página 490 - It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are — perhaps freezing to death.
Página 167 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun ; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Página 270 - For all these reasons we charge you to remove instantly, we don't give you the liberty to think about it. You are women.
Página 502 - I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohoolhoolzote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no.
Página 269 - But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women.
Página 524 - You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men ! But how dare I cut my mother's hair...
Página 433 - Indians' land ; that he was extremely anxious to be their friend, and if he (the governor) would prevail upon the president to give up the lands lately purchased, and agree never to make another treaty, without the consent of all the tribes, he would be their faithful ally, and assist them in all their wars with the English...
Página 203 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.

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