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[Speech of a Chief of the Chipewas]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.08166 Author/Creator: Place Written: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Type: Manuscript document Date: circa July 1786 Pagination: 2 p. : Height: 32.3 cm, Width: 20.4 cm Order a Copy

Discusses finding a way to live peaceably with the settlers. States that they are very poor and asks for clothing, guns, and liquor. Copy, written in the hand of Robert Pemberton, War Department Secretary.

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