 | 1809 - 878 sidor
...leave this place. It is right you should have one, as you are a great distance from home, and we do not wish to detain you. But we will first look back a...when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1809 - 448 sidor
...should have one, as you are a great distance from home, and we do not wish to detain you. But v.-e will first look back a little, and tell you what our...us, and what we have heard from the white people. " Jlrothcr ; Listen to what we say. " There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island.... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 sidor
...distinctly the words you have spoken. For all these favours we thank the Great Spirit, and him only. . Brother ! Listen to what we say. There was a time...when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun : the Great Spirit had made it for the use of the... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1824 - 876 sidor
...place. It is right that you should have one, as you are at a great distance from home, and we do not wish to detain you; but we will first look back a...when our forefathers owned this great Island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit has made it for the use of Indians.... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - 1824 - 532 sidor
...distance from * This Speech deserves attention as a specimen of Indian Oratory. home, and we do not wish to detain you. But we will first look back a...when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit made it for the use of Indians.... | |
 | 1901 - 744 sidor
...in the hearts of many an Asiatic and African at the present day : " Brother [said the Red Jacket], listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island But an evil day came upon us ! Your forefathers crossed the great waters, and landed on this island.... | |
 | 1829 - 762 sidor
...distinctly the words you have spoken. For all these favours we thank the Great Spirit, and him only. Brother — Listen to what we say. There was a time...when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1832 - 344 sidor
...leave this place. It is right you should have one, as you are a great distance from home, and we do not wish to detain you. But we will first look back a...when our forefathers owned this great island.* Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1832 - 344 sidor
...leave this place. It is right you should have one, as you are a great distance from home, and we do not wish to detain you. But we will first look back a...time when our forefathers owned this great island.* * Meaning the Continent — a common belief and e$. pression among the Indians. Their seats extended... | |
 | Benjamin Bussey Thatcher - 1832 - 346 sidor
...place. It is right you should have one, as you are a great distance from home, and we do not wish.to detain you. But we will first look back a little,...when our forefathers owned this great island.* Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.... | |
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Brother, listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians. 
