 | Henry Jones Ford - Scots-Irish - 1915 - 630 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... | |
 | Henry Farr De Puy - Indians of North America - 2001 - 146 pages
...investigated this claim Canassatego made his famous speech to the Delawares. "But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you; we made women of you; you know that you are women and can no more sell land than women; nor is it fit that you should have the power... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - Pennsylvania - 1919 - 454 pages
...whom they had been so subservient that they swallowed the insulting message from the northern Indians, "We conquered you, we made women of you; you know...are women, and can no more sell land than women." In the early days of the nineteenth century, Eastern's chief importance was as a canal center. Artificial... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - Pittsburgh (Pa.) - 1922 - 642 pages
...or upwards; but how came you to take upon you to sell land at all. In fiery eloquence he thundered : We conquered you ; we made women of you ; you know...the power of selling land, since you would abuse it. You have been furnished with clothes, meat and drink, by the goods paid you for it, and now you want... | |
 | Chester Hale Sipe - Indians - 1927 - 582 pages
...of yourselves and chiefs now living to the number of fifteen or upwards. "But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you; we...and can no more sell land than women. Nor is it fit that you should have the power of selling land, since you would abuse it. This land that you claim... | |
 | William Graham Sumner, Albert Galloway Keller, Maurice Rea Davie - Sociology - 1927 - 866 pages
...Delawares sold some land without consent of the Iroquois, an Onondaga chief reproved them harshly: "We conquered you. We made women of you. You know...you are women and can no more sell land than women." Among the Iroquois, "the rights of property, of both husband and wife, were continued distinct during... | |
 | william christie macleod - 1928 - 586 pages
...yourselves now living to the number of fifteen or more. " But how came you to take upon yourselves to sell land at all ? We conquered you. We made women...can no more sell land than women. " Nor is it fit that you should have the power of selling lands, since you would abuse it. This land that you claim,... | |
 | Oscar Jewell Harvey - Civic leaders - 1909 - 722 pages
...of yourselves and chiefs now living to the number of fifteen or upwards. "But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all ? We conquered you !...Nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands, since you would abuse it. This land that you claim, has gone through your guts. You have been... | |
 | Pennsylvania-German Society - German Americans - 1906 - 890 pages
...some of yourselves and chiefs now living to the number of fifteen or upwards. But how came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered you, we...and can no more sell land than women. Nor is it fit that you should have the power of selling land since you would abuse it. . This land that you claim... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1893 - 778 pages
...p. 59. \\Ibid., ?, 68. 1f Tbid,, p. 51. Compare Kalm, Trare/s, vol. n, p. 42. ** "We conquered yon ; we made women of you ; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women." Coldeii, Hiulory of the Fice Nations, vol. H, P80 : London, 1767. See also Speech of John Hudson, the... | |
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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. 
