| George Edward Ellis - 1882 - 672 Seiten
...of the Proprietor's Chest, you will open it and take out a little more for us. " We know our Lauds are now become more valuable. The White People think we do not know their value ; but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and the few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.... | |
| William Joseph Buck - 1886 - 284 Seiten
...Onandagoes, made a speech in behalf of the Delawares : " We know," he said, "our lands are now becoming more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value, but we are sensible that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.... | |
| 1928 - 710 Seiten
...there will be extremely little. We therefore desire, if you have the keys to the proprietor's chest, you will open it and take out a little more for us....people think we do not know their value ; but we are sensible that the land is everlasting and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.... | |
| Cadwallader Colden - 1902 - 412 Seiten
...there will be extremely little. We therefore desire, if you have the Keys of the Proprietor's Chest, you will open it, and take out a little more for us....People think we do not know their Value ; but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and the few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.... | |
| George Thornton Fleming - 1922 - 642 Seiten
...attested by this paragraph in one of Cannassatego's speeches in the famous conference in Philadelphia : "We know our lands are now become more valuable. The...people think we do not know their value, but we are sensible that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.... | |
| william christie macleod - 1928 - 586 Seiten
...a sale of lands west of the Susquehanna in Pennsylvania, to Pennsylvania, observed : " We know that our lands are now become more valuable; the white people think we don't know their value, but we are sensible that the land is everlasting, and that the few goods we... | |
| Oscar Jewell Harvey - 1909 - 722 Seiten
...high breach of the league of friendship." At another time during the conference Canassatego said : "We know our lands are now become more valuable. The white people think we don't know their value, but we are sensible that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families - 1986 - 372 Seiten
...securing 15,000 worth of land in North Carolina or an unpopulated area, aa called for by the treaty, in We know our lands are now become more valuable. The...people think we do not know their value; but we are sensible that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.... | |
| Kent Nerburn, Louise Mengelkoch - 1991 - 136 Seiten
...to the government, this is the way they bought them. Chief Joseph Nez Perce We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.... | |
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