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38 JOURNAL OR NARRATIVE OF A
CONSPIRACY
charge of Takay, repaired to the Pottawattamy
village where the expected council was to be held. Care had
been taken to send the women out of the village so that they
might not hear anything of what should be decided. Pontiac
ordered sentinels to be placed around the village in order
not to be disturbed in their council. When all these
precautions had been taken each Indian seated himself in the
circle according to rank, and Pontiac at the head, as great
chief of all, began to speak. He said:
""It is important
for us, my brothers, that we exterminate from our lands this
nation which seeks only to destroy us. You see as well as I
that we can no longer supply our needs, as we have done,
from our brothers, the French. The English sell us goods
twice as dear as the French do, and their goods do not last.
Scarcely have we bought a blanket or something else to cover
ourselves with before we must think of getting another; and
when we wish to set out for our winter. camps they do not
want to give us any credit as our brothers, the French,
do.
""When I go to see the English commander and say to
him that some of our comrades are dead, instead of bewailing
their death, as our French brothers do, he laughs at me and
at you. If I ask anything for our sick, he refuses with the
reply that he has no use for us. From all this you can well
see that they are seeking our ruin. Therefore, my brothers,
we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer.
Nothing prevents us; they are few in numbers, and we can
accomplish it. All the nations who are our brothers attack
them,-why should we not attack? Are we not men like them?
Have I not shown you the wampum belts which I received from
our Great Father, the Frenchman? He tells us to strike
them., why do we not listen to his words? What do we fear?
It is time.
Do we fear that our brothers, the French, who
are here among us will prevent us ? They do not know our
plans, and they could not hinder anyway, if they would. You
all
know as welll as II that when the English came upon
our
Object Description
| Document Number | AJ-135 |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-135/ |
| Document Title | Journal of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763 |
| Contributor | Burton, Mary Agnes (editor); Ford, Richard Clyde, 1870- (translator) |
| Document Source | Burton, Mary Agnes (editor). Journal of Pontiac's Conspiracy 1763. (Detroit: Published by Clarence Monroe Burton under the Auspices of the Michigan Society of the Colonial Wars, [1912]). |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-135/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-135/summary/ |
| Genre | journal; translation; |
| Language | English; French |
| Region / Country | Great Lakes & Mississippi Valley |
| State / Province | Michigan; |
| Event Date | 1763 |
| Ethnicity | Indian; French; English; |
| Indian Tribe | Ottawa; Chippewa; Potawatomi; Huron Including Wyandot Indians; Shawnee; Delaware; Erie; |
| Key Persons & Places | Detroit; Pontiac; |
| Social Relations | Indian attitudes; Indian-white relations; white attitudes; women’s roles; |
| Daily Life | alcohol & tobacco; tools & implements; |
| Politics | warfare & battles; resistance & revolt; intertribal relations; captivity; |
| Economics | trade & barter; |
| Digital Format | xml |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-135 |
| Copyright & Access | © Copyright 2003 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin). For further information see http://www.americanjourneys.org/rights/ |
Description
| Document Number | AJ-135 |
| Document URL | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-135/ |
| Document Title | Journal of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763 |
| Contributor | Burton, Mary Agnes (editor); Ford, Richard Clyde, 1870- (translator) |
| Document Page | 38 |
| Document Source | Burton, Mary Agnes (editor). Journal of Pontiac's Conspiracy 1763. (Detroit: Published by Clarence Monroe Burton under the Auspices of the Michigan Society of the Colonial Wars, [1912]). |
| Electronic Publisher | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Electronic Publication Date | 2003 |
| Print / Download PDF Version | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-135/print/ |
| Read Background | http://www.americanjourneys.org/aj-135/summary/ |
| Genre | journal; |
| Page Type | text; |
| Language | English |
| Region / Country | Great Lakes & Mississippi Valley |
| State / Province | Michigan; |
| Event Date | May 5, 1763 |
| Ethnicity | Indian; English; |
| Indian Tribe | Potawatomi; |
| Social Relations | Indian attitudes; Indian-white relations; |
| Economics | trade & barter; |
| Digital Format | jpeg |
| Digital Identifier | AJ-135-0038 |
| Copyright & Access | © Copyright 2003 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin). For further information see http://www.americanjourneys.org/rights/ |
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38 JOURNAL OR NARRATIVE OF A
CONSPIRACY charge of Takay, repaired to the Pottawattamy village where the expected council was to be held. Care had been taken to send the women out of the village so that they might not hear anything of what should be decided. Pontiac ordered sentinels to be placed around the village in order not to be disturbed in their council. When all these precautions had been taken each Indian seated himself in the circle according to rank, and Pontiac at the head, as great chief of all, began to speak. He said: ""It is important for us, my brothers, that we exterminate from our lands this nation which seeks only to destroy us. You see as well as I that we can no longer supply our needs, as we have done, from our brothers, the French. The English sell us goods twice as dear as the French do, and their goods do not last. Scarcely have we bought a blanket or something else to cover ourselves with before we must think of getting another; and when we wish to set out for our winter. camps they do not want to give us any credit as our brothers, the French, do. ""When I go to see the English commander and say to him that some of our comrades are dead, instead of bewailing their death, as our French brothers do, he laughs at me and at you. If I ask anything for our sick, he refuses with the reply that he has no use for us. From all this you can well see that they are seeking our ruin. Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their destruction and wait no longer. Nothing prevents us; they are few in numbers, and we can accomplish it. All the nations who are our brothers attack them,-why should we not attack? Are we not men like them? Have I not shown you the wampum belts which I received from our Great Father, the Frenchman? He tells us to strike them., why do we not listen to his words? What do we fear? It is time. Do we fear that our brothers, the French, who are here among us will prevent us ? They do not know our plans, and they could not hinder anyway, if they would. You all know as welll as II that when the English came upon our |