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... hundred thousand dollars each . Then came a new treaty , more violated faith , another war , until we have not a hun- dred miles between the Atlantic and Pacific which has not been the scene of an Indian massacre . All this while Canada ...
... hundred thousand dollars each . Then came a new treaty , more violated faith , another war , until we have not a hun- dred miles between the Atlantic and Pacific which has not been the scene of an Indian massacre . All this while Canada ...
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... hundred treaties , concluded at different times during the last hundred years , and broken as fast as concluded , seems almost equal to that of the celebrated de- fence in the case of the kettle , which was cracked when it was lent ...
... hundred treaties , concluded at different times during the last hundred years , and broken as fast as concluded , seems almost equal to that of the celebrated de- fence in the case of the kettle , which was cracked when it was lent ...
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... hundred years of treaty- making and treaty - breaking , are greater than can be told . Neither mountains nor deserts stayed them ; it took two seas to set their bounds . In 1871 , Congress , either ashamed of making treaties only to ...
... hundred years of treaty- making and treaty - breaking , are greater than can be told . Neither mountains nor deserts stayed them ; it took two seas to set their bounds . In 1871 , Congress , either ashamed of making treaties only to ...
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... hundred years later , the traditions of this event were still current in the tribe . The aged Moravian missionary , Heckewelder , writing in 1818 , says : " I at one time , in April , 1787 , was astonished when I heard one of their ...
... hundred years later , the traditions of this event were still current in the tribe . The aged Moravian missionary , Heckewelder , writing in 1818 , says : " I at one time , in April , 1787 , was astonished when I heard one of their ...
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... hundred and thirty Indians ( eleven tribes , besides the Delawares , being represented ) were parties to this treaty . By this treaty nearly two - thirds of the present State of Ohio were ceded to the United States ; and , in ...
... hundred and thirty Indians ( eleven tribes , besides the Delawares , being represented ) were parties to this treaty . By this treaty nearly two - thirds of the present State of Ohio were ceded to the United States ; and , in ...
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