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" The way, and the only way, to check and to stop this evil, is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. That... "
Biography and History of the Indians of North America: Comprising a General ... - Page 99
by Samuel G. Drake - 1834 - 541 pages
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Selections from American Orations: An Historical Reader for Schools

Horace Leslie Brittain - Readers - 1911 - 284 pages
...the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet ; for it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. No part has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers, those who want all, and will...
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The Battle of Tippecanoe: Historical Sketches of the Famous Field Upon which ...

Reed Beard - Reconstruction - 1911 - 144 pages
...land? as it was at first, and should be now — for it never was divided, but belongs to all. No tribe has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers, who demand all, and will take no less. The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians,...
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Rhetoric and the Study of Literature

Alfred Marshall Hitchcock - English language - 1913 - 432 pages
...intricate, complicated. EXERCISES 1 * Punctuate the following, supplying capitals where they are needed: 1. The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians because they had it first it is theirs. 2. I Tiad three chairs in my house one for solitude two for friendship three for society....
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Once Upon a Time in Indiana

Charity Dye - Indiana - 1916 - 226 pages
...and equal right in the land as it was at first and should be yet ; for it never was divided. . . . "The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because they had it first, it is theirs. They may sell, but all must join. Any sale not made by all is not valid. The late sale is...
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Student's Class-book of Elocution: A Manual Containing the Fundamental ...

Dominic Barthel - Elocution - 1927 - 790 pages
...the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. For no part has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers — those who want all,...
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The Northern Shoshoni

Brigham D. Madsen - History - 1980 - 264 pages
...land, as it was at first, and should be now — for it never was divided, but belongs to all. No tribe has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers, who demand all, and will take no less. . . . Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the...
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The World's Great Speeches

Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna - History - 1999 - 978 pages
...equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should he yet; for it never was divided, but helongs to all for the use of each. That no part has a right...land from the Indians, because they had it first; it is theirs. They may sell, but all must join. Any sale not made by all is not valid. The late sale is...
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The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature

Joshua David Bellin - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 294 pages
...Great Spirit intended [the land] as the common property of all the tribes" and thus that "no tribe has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers, who demand all," Indians challenged not only the nation's claim but the notion that any claim, physical...
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Drakes Book of Indians

Samuel Gardner Drake - Social Science - 2001 - 469 pages
...the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it never was divided, but belongs to all,...land from the Indians, because they had it first; it is theirs. They may sell, but all must join. Any sale not made by all is not valid. The late sale is...
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Other Words: American Indian Literature, Law, and Culture

Jace Weaver - Social Science - 2001 - 412 pages
...land, as it was at first, and should be now — for it never was divided, but belongs to all. No tribe has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers, who demand all and will take no less."78 This raises the ultimate question of ownership of land; namely,...
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