Participation During an Impending Council Fire
Document 1795Speeches delivered by chiefs of sundry tribes regarding participation in an impending council meeting.
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My Brother I listen, and to me, and give you one call. My Brother! There are your children that are come from the Mississippi, a great way off. I have listened them, and my heart is divided.
Brother [undecipherable] now I have been [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] of their coming from [undecipherable] [undecipherable] and [undecipherable] of them we were left.
Brother [undecipherable]: [undecipherable] it is a great way to go to General Wayne. So we [undecipherable].
[undecipherable] there are too many enemies between here and [undecipherable], and they may kill him. [undecipherable] would rather not till you can hear from him — [undecipherable].
Brother! I [undecipherable] you will take pity on the red people [undecipherable] now here, and on them of the [undecipherable]. Also. Don't be [undecipherable] of your goods and let not the Mississipi Indians go away [undecipherable].
Brother! I help your children, and your children with Mississipi. You will grow strong together, and be able to drive away all bad things.
Brother! I take pity I say on your children. Your [undecipherable] have been [undecipherable] by the English, and [undecipherable] your. The Spaniards neither to step on from coming to you. Don't let your children go from [undecipherable].
Brother! The English have bought them the Tomahawk, but they threw it away. They are now come to see you. They are your brothers, take care of them.
Brother! If you [undecipherable] with them, their nation which [undecipherable] many and very [undecipherable], will be glad [if] they still were to see you.
I am now going, upon another subject. [undecipherable] [addresses himself to] all the Indians. I will say something to you very [undecipherable].
General Washington I [undecipherable] Jefferson.
The English and Spaniards are [undecipherable], they give no [undecipherable] advice to their people.
Brother! I always love to be in the light. Give but little [undecipherable], and while here ([undecipherable] [undecipherable]) [undecipherable] a little to the chiefs that are [undecipherable].
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We certify that the preceding sheet contains the proceedings had in council, with the [undecipherable] and other Indians at [undecipherable] on the Wabash, the 20th and 22d June 1794.
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Annexed papers refers to us in the proceedings of the Council
John [undecipherable] [undecipherable] — Chief of the Kaskaskias Indians, [undecipherable] [undecipherable].
[undecipherable] [undecipherable] on the 20th of June Instant accompanied by [undecipherable] [undecipherable] to Captain [undecipherable] [undecipherable] of that [undecipherable], in the presence [undecipherable] [undecipherable] who [undecipherable] came [undecipherable] [undecipherable] by [undecipherable] [undecipherable], [undecipherable] [undecipherable] no interpreter, and who said that the first day of [undecipherable] last, he received a letter from General Washington, to send and demand the [undecipherable] and all other Indians as he was [undecipherable] to meet the said Capt. [undecipherable] at [undecipherable] [undecipherable], and go [undecipherable] him to Philadelphia to see his father General Washington. That in confidence, the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] a certain [undecipherable] Jere, to act in his [undecipherable] [undecipherable] not invite them of his own authority, but by the authority of General Washington, and that upon this invitation he came in the name of General Washington, to the said [undecipherable] were accordingly [undecipherable] by the [undecipherable], were with him at [undecipherable] [undecipherable] for the purpose of [undecipherable] together to Philadelphia with Captain [undecipherable]. → →
And we can certify that on this instant 22d June, in open council, and in the presence of Captain [undecipherable], the preceding statements were read and [undecipherable] to [undecipherable], paragraph by paragraph, and that [undecipherable] each paragraph to be strictly true.
Certified at [undecipherable] this 22d day of June 1794.
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Proceedings of a Council held at Fort Knox, by Captain [undecipherable] with the Potawatomis &c.
The Council of April 1793.
The Speech of a Chief called [undecipherable] in behalf of the Potawatomis.
My Brother! [undecipherable]
The day is clear, I have shook hands with you, and I expect it with [undecipherable] means the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable]. I have come on good [undecipherable], I take [undecipherable] nothing from you, no more than you would from me. It is here the people first over this [undecipherable] enemies, and we are [undecipherable], it is because the British, gave us advise, I hope we shall be forgiven. By now, as our [undecipherable] is, [to] help [undecipherable] good — I will not let go your hands; you know the [undecipherable] [undecipherable]
Type
Document
Description
Speeches delivered by chiefs of sundry tribes regarding participation in an impending council meeting.
Date
06/22/1795
Repository
Collection
Document number
1795062290101
Page start
44
Note
Speeches related to participation in a possible council meeting, beginning on page 41 of the document.
Notable persons
George Ironsides
Augoshaway, Principal Chief of the Ottawas
Captain Brant
Jacque LaSalle
Hurons
Chippewas
General Wayne
Blue Jacket
Bernard Dupon
Louis Sevier
Louis Bolong
Notable locations
Swan Creek
Detroit
Fort Recovery
Chipewas
Notable items
council fire
the Ottowas' speech
speech of the Chipewas

