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Unknown [Speech of a Chief of the Chipewas]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08166 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Type: Manuscript document Date: circa July 1786 Pagination: 2 p. ; 32.3 x 20.4 cm. Order a Copy

Discusses finding a way to live peaceably with the settlers. States that they are very poor and asks for clothing, guns, and liquor. Copy, written in the hand of Robert Pemberton, War Department Secretary.

Date and location inferred from a letter sent from William North to the War Department, 25 July 1786 (GLC02437.03286). In the letter, North references a speech given by a Chippewa Chief, presumably this speech. Pemberton then forwarded this speech, along with North's letter and two other documents, to Congress 15 August 1786.

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