Native Americans

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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

Tecumseh

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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US and Native American relations Native Americans

Speaker

Tecumseh

Source

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tecumseh. 1799. Tribal councils with White Men. Urbana, Ohio, USA.

Current Citation

Tecumseh. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 1.

What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red, because I am Sioux, because I was born where my fathers lived, because I would die for my people and my country?

Sitting Bull

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Native Americans

Speaker

Sitting Bull

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sitting Bull. Speech to Major Brotherton. 19 or 20 July 1881, Fort Buford, ND, USA.

Current Citation

Sitting Bull. "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?" Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2000.

People say the native stands on the edge of a chasm. It is not he who stands on the edge of a chasm; his claims are not false. They are just... Every step the Indian takes is based on a profound sense of fairness.

Louis Riel

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Native Americans

Author

Louis Riel

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Riel, Louis. Diary entry. 6 May 1885.

Current Citation

Riel, Louis. The Diaries of Louis Riel, edited by Thomas Flanagan. Hurtig, 1976.

The progress of our settlements westward, supported as they are by a dense population, has constantly driven them back, with almost the total sacrifice of the lands which they have been compelled to abandon.

James Monroe

Second Inaugural Address of James Monroe

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US and Native American relations Native Americans

Speaker

James Monroe

Source

Second Inaugural Address of James Monroe Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Monroe, James. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1821, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.