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Beyond Penn's Treaty

Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY

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our land from us, and now 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 that 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 plenty
of every thing: and then our minds would
be easy, and we could think upon the Good
Spirit.

Brothers, The reason I mention to you
about our being cheated some of my warriors win't
mind what I say to them, but will have their
own way, because they know I have often been cheat-
ed by the white people. If I had never been cheat-
ed then my warriors would believe me, and mind
what I say to them: but now they won't mind.

Brothers, we can't all go to work at once
Some of my warriors will go a hunting to get pro-
visions, and sometimes they break a gun, and
then it takes a great deal of money to get a new
one. We have very few hoes and axes and such
things amongst us, and we are not able to get them.

Brothers,
I will go along with you to Canan-