Speckled Snake

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Brothers, I have listened to a great many talks from our great father. But they always began and ended in this: "Get a little further; you are too near me."

Speckled Snake

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Topic

Manifest destiny

Speaker

Speckled Snake

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Speckled Snake. Speech delivered at a council of Indian chiefs. 20 June 1829, USA.

Current Citation

Speckled Snake. Quoted in A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, written by Howard Zinn. Routledge, 2015, ch. 7.

When the white man had warmed himself before the Indians' fire and filled himself with their hominy, he became very large. With a step he bestrode the mountains, and his feet covered the plains and the valleys. His hands grasped the eastern and the western sea, and his head rested on the moon.

Speckled Snake

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Topic

US and Native American relations

Speaker

Speckled Snake

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Speckled Snake. Speech delivered at a council of Indian chiefs. 20 June 1829, USA.

Current Citation

Speckled Snake. Quoted in A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, written by Howard Zinn. Routledge, 2015, ch. 7.