 | Isaac Sharpless - Pennsylvania - 1900 - 456 pages
...severely till you recover your senses." Then with the bitterest taunts he proceeded : " But how came you to sell land at all ? We conquered you. We made...you are women, and can no more sell land than women. . . . For all these reasons we charge you to remove instantly. We don't give you liberty to think about... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - Iroquoian languages - 1901 - 404 pages
...themselves towards subjugated nations. "Let this belt of wampum serve to chastise you.* * How came you to take upon you to sell land at all? We conquered...and 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. • * We therefore assign,... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - Iroquoian languages - 1901 - 408 pages
...made women of you; you know you are women, and 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. * * We therefore assign you two places to go, either to Wyoming or Shamokin. You may go to either of... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - Iroquois Indians - 1902 - 412 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...since you would abuse it. This Land that you claim is gone thro' your Guts; you have been furnished with Cloaths, Meat, and Drink, by the Goods paid you... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - Iroquois Indians - 1902 - 408 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...Power of selling Lands, since you would abuse it. This Laud that you claim is gone thro' your Guts; you have been furnished with Cloaths, Meat, and Drink,... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless - Pennsylvania - 1902 - 706 pages
...severely till you recover your senses." Then with the bitterest taunts he proceeded: "But how came you to sell land at all ? We conquered you. We made...you are women, and can no more sell land than women. For all these reasons we charge you to remove instantly. We don't give you liberty to think about it.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Frederick Webb Hodge - Indians of North America - 1907 - 1002 pages
...Iroquois 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; you know you are women, and can no more sell laud than women. We charge you to remove instantly; we don't give you liberty to think of it." The... | |
 | United States - 1907 - 1028 pages
...Iroquois 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... | |
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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. 
