canassatego speech at lancaster pdf

A Treaty, held at the town of Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the Honourable the lieutenant-governor of the province, and the Honourable the commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744. Plan, or whether the credit should go to Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts. [10] Cattle have eat up all the Grass, and made Deer scarce. Canassatego again intro- 7*s duced theirTsTaims to lands in Maryland, desiring to know what had been done in the matter, saying "you will inform the person whose people are seated on our lands that that country belongs to us in right of conquestwe have bought it with our blood and taken it from our enemies in fair war; we expect such considera In 1742, at the behest of their Pennsylvanian friend and translator, Conrad Weiser, the Haudenosaunee cemented this relationship with the colony of Pennsylvania; however, settlers were encroaching on the lands that of the Delawares around the Shenandoah Valley, in the colonies of Virginia and Maryland. (June 1988). Most of the sessions of the congress took place at the Albany 292-316. you desired to confirm all former Treaties between Virginia and us, and to Online Speech Bank: Chief Canasatego - On Education O nondaga C hief C anasatego On Colonizing Education delivered in 1744, Pennsylvania on behalf of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations Plug-in required for flash audio [ AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.] [30] the Six Nations. Richard Peters provided this word-portrait of Canassatego at Lancaster: "a your Brethren the English towards you. xX[o8~-i ]C;LZJr2_"R$9SUUF?a$-TWiX~q}}% vz;1m_"l9s mzFu+>3(g$YjFmBJ/gC3cO92T e']_H~v/YMSz(f`MP*4gmW6#A)=#!L|L) F:yl3``@N (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1868), p. 295. Canassategos longest lasting influence was on Benjamin Franklin. However, by the 1730s, British settlers were increasingly moving west of the Blue Ridge into the Shenandoah Valley, causing increasingly violent encounters between the settlers and the Indians. The Haudenosaunee, as the most powerful and cohesive group of American Indian tribes in what would become the Northeastern United States, were still a force to be reckoned with every time the British colonists wished to expand their territory or go to war against their most important rival, France. In 1744, the Onondaga leader Canassatego gave a speech urging the contentious 13 colonies to unite, as the Iroquois had at the signing of the Treaty of Lancaster. Franklin subsequently served 1732-1753 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968), and Patricia U. in small booklets that enjoyed a lively sale throughout the colonies. revolutionaries such as Franklin were absorbing the native ideas they would Dutton & Co., 1926), p. 170. The Indian men, copying."[41]. (7 votes) Very easy. WE have now finished our Answer to what you said t us Yesterday, and [32] We shall never forget that you and we have Never disagree, but preserve a strict Friendship for one another, and thereby you, as well as we, will become the stronger. This is delivered not as a general sentiment, but with the thought of the Onandagas union with the other nations in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, as an example to be emulated by the colonies. please to take away the other, which he had ordered to be done. this, we have enough left to fill our English Glasses, and will shew the It is significant that the New INDIANS <>>> to our meeting with our Brethren of Virginia and Maryland. Create a free account, set a strong password, and go through email verification to start working on your templates. "[31] Printed by Benjamin Franklin 1736-1762 (Philadelphia: Historical Society 1751 when he engaged in a hyperbolic racial slur (actually subsequent evidence Heath, 1980), pp. Treaty between the United States and Great Britain for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Lyons-Seward Treaty of 1862), Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty, Korean Religious Teacher Jung Myung Seok Is Charged with Rape, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Tearfully Confesses His Adultery, Historian Stephen E. Ambrose Is Accused of Plagiarism, The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Binding Law, Gayanashagowa. her kettle every time she came to see them." <> But through his sacrifice he had set the stage It is likely that Hendrick remarked on this subject several Colden as early as 1747, when Franklin requested and received copies of them.[26]. finally to make such laws and levy such taxes as would be needed for its in 1736, Franklin published Indian treaty accounts on a regular basis until the <>/ExtGState<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> "[29] THEN the Commissioners of Virginia presented the Hundred Pounds in Valley until 1795 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1940). He was about sixty years try{ Giver. Canassategos advice, delivered via Franklins printing press and personal writings, formed the core of Franklins ideas on the topic of a united government among the colonies, and furtheraccording to some historiansthe core ideas of the fundamental documents of the nascent United States: the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. All diplomatic roads during this decade seem to lead ultimately to <> 4 0 obj Carl Van Doren and Julian P. Boyd, eds., Indian Treaties generation, and it would be used not only as a rallying point against French encroachment. Cited in Julian Boyd, "Dr. Franklin: Friend of the Indian," [1942] in Roy . Albany. Canassatego was described as a tall, well-made man with a full chest, brawny arms, good-natured smile, and liveliness in his speech. has been its working out of the problem of federation." He was * This is why the