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Speeches delivered by Chiefs -1710-1805, 1812, p. 12

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d ^^ Brothers --We send you this our speech, tb which we expect your answer before the breaking up of your great council fire ** speech of Red Jacket. In the summer of 1805, a number of the principal chiefs and toarriors of the Six Nations^ prin- cipally Senecas^ assembled at Buffalo Creek^ in the state of New-York j Rev. at the particular re- quest of the Mr, Cram, a missionary from the state of Massachusetts. The missio- nary being furnished with an interpreter, and accompanied by the agent of the United States for Indian affairs, met the Indians in place.'* councilj when the following talk took FIRST, BY THE AGENT. Six Nations-- I rejoice to ^^Brothers of the MBet you at rit this time, and thank the Great Spi- that he his preserved you in health, and gi- ren me another the hand. opportunity of taking you by is ^^Brothen --The person who sits by me, a

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