 | Cyrus Thomas - Indians of North America - 1903 - 540 pages
...deprived them of, made the following, oft-quoted statement : " How came you to take upon you to sell land? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women and can no more sell land than women; we charge you to remove instantly; we don't give you liberty to think about it; we assign you two places... | |
 | Iroquois Indians - 1905 - 388 pages
...was right, and he said to them : " How came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquer'd You, we made Women of you, you know you are Women, and can no more sell Land than Women." After other reproofs he passed sentence. They might live either at Shamokin or Wyoming, " and then... | |
 | United States - 1907 - 1028 pages
...chief, that the latter, addressing the Delawares, made the memorable statement: "How came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you; we made women of you; you know vou are women, and can no more sell land than women. We charge you to remove instantly; we don't give... | |
 | 1907 - 1000 pages
...chief, that the latter, addressing the Delawares, made the memorable statement: " How came yon to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you; we made women of yon; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women. We charge you to remove instantly;... | |
 | Louise Welles Murray - Athens (Pa.) - 1908 - 710 pages
...shaken soundly till you recover your senses. You don't know what you are doing, — How came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you, you can no more sell land than women — We charge you to remove instantly — We assign you two places... | |
 | Lehigh County Historical Society - Lehigh County (Pa.) - 1908 - 384 pages
...you stand on, nor what you are doing. This land that you claim, is gone through your guts long ago. You know you are women, and can no more sell land than women. We charge you to move instantly. We don't give you the liberty to think about it, for you are women!"... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - History - 1911 - 538 pages
...of yourselves, and chiefs now living, to the number of fifteen and upwards. But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you ; we...Nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands, since you abuse it. This land, that you claim, is gone through your guts. You have been furnished... | |
 | Grace Greylock Niles - History - 1912 - 638 pages
...Christians. In 1742, at the Philadelphia Council, the Mohawk orator, Canassaticgo, exclaimed at last: "We conquered you, we made women of you ; you know you are women; we charge you to remove instantly; we don't give you liberty to think about it." The sachems of Wappanachki... | |
 | Charles Morris - Pennsylvania - 1913 - 362 pages
...harshly ordered the Delawares to remove. "How came you to sell land at all?" said the Iroquois sachem. "We conquered you. We made women of you. You know...you are women and can no more sell land than women. You ought to be taken by the hair of your head and shaken until you recover your senses. You are women,... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - Scots-Irish - 1915 - 628 pages
...delegates, Canassatego, a Mengwe chief, addressing the Delawares in the presence of Governor Thomas said: "We conquered you; we made women of you; you know...nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands, since you would abuse it. This land that you claim is gone through your guts; you have been... | |
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But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women. 
