 | John Dunn Hunter - Indian captivities - 1823 - 492 pages
...same council fire ! " Brothers. — We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. The blood of many of our fathers and brothers has...spread their blankets, or to kindle their fires. They were feeble ; they could do nothing for themselves. Our fathers commiserated their distress, and shared... | |
 | John Dunn Hunter - Hunter, John Dunn, 1798?-1827 - 1823 - 418 pages
...the same council fire! Brothers — We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. The blood of many of our fathers and brothers has...spread their blankets, or to kindle their fires. They were feeble, they could do nothing for themselves. Our fathers commiserated their distress, and shared... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indian mythology - 1824 - 350 pages
...path ; slake our thirst at the same spring; and now affairs of the greatest concern leads us to smoke the pipe around the same council fire ! " Brothers,...grounds, they were hungry ; they had no place on which to»spread their blankets, or to kindle their fires. They wer* feeble ; they could do nothing for themselves.... | |
 | James Buchanan - Indians of North America - 1824 - 404 pages
...affairs of the greatest concern leads us to smoke the pipe around the same council fire! "Brothers,—We are friends; we must assist each other to bear our...pacify them but the destruction of all the red men. " Brothers,—When the white men first set foot on our grounds, they were hungry; they had no place... | |
 | William Newnham Blane - History - 1824 - 532 pages
...Tecuintha,*. gives a good idea of the treatment they have met with from Europeans : — " Brothers f — When the white men first set foot on our grounds,...spread their blankets, or to kindle their fires. They were feeble : they could do nothing for themselves. Our fathers commise* i, e. " The Shooting Star."... | |
 | John Halkett - Indians - 1825 - 430 pages
...? " Brothers," said the celebrated warrior Tecum-seh, in a speech to the Osages in the year 1811, " when the white men first set foot on our grounds,...they had no place on which to spread their blankets, nor to kindle their fires. They were feeble ; they could do nothing for themselves. Our fathers pitied... | |
 | Charles Edwards - 1832 - 220 pages
...turned to a memoir of Tecumseh. I wish it may be so : for pleasure and, surely, profit would follow. e " Brothers : When the white men first set foot on our...spread their blankets, or to kindle their fires. They were feeble. They could do nothing for themselves. Our fathers commisserated their distress, and shared... | |
 | Ferdinand Brock Tupper - 1835 - 250 pages
...same council fire ! " ' Brothers, — We are friends ; we must assist each other to bear our burdens. The blood of many of our fathers and brothers has...spread t.heir blankets, or to kindle their fires. They were feeble ; they could do nothing for themselves. Our fathers commiserated their distress, and shared... | |
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The blood of many of our fathers and brothers has run like water on the ground, to satisfy the avarice of the white men. We, ourselves, are threatened with a great evil; nothing will pacify them but the destruction of all the red men. 
