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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Journey into Indian Country

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we have but little left, we will try to
learn your way.

Brothers, you know there are some
bad People amongst us, and you know
we have been cheated, and that makes
us bad, and our Minds uneasy; if we
had not been cheated we should have
been very rich People, and had plen-
-ty of every thing, and then our Minds
would be easy, and we could think on
the good Spirit.

Brothers, the reason I mention to you a-
-bout our being Cheated, some of my War-
-riors wont mind what I say unto them;
but will have their own way, because
they know I often have been Cheated
by the White People; If I had never been
cheated, then my Warriors would believe
me, and mind what I say to them, but
now they wont mind.

Brothers, we cant all go to work at once
some of my Warriors will go a hunting
to get Provisions, and sometimes they broke