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Social Studies Chief Tecumseh

Tecumsehs Speech to Governor Harrison, 20 August, 1810
..When we were first discovered it was by the French, who told us that
they would adopt us as their children and gave us presents, without
asking anything in return but our considering them as our fathers.
this is the manner that the treaty was made by us with the French. They
gave us many presents and treated us well, they asked us for a small
piece of land country to live on which they were not to leave and continue
to treat us as their children.
After some time the British and French came to quarrel.
The next father we found was the British who told us that they would now
be our fathers and treat us in the same manner as our former fathers the
French. They would occupy the same land they did and not trouble us on
ours, but would look on us as their children.
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1. What is Tecumsehs point of view?
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2. What are his concerns?
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3. What is his opinion of land ownership?

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4. Speech (1-2 paragraphs) from a Native American perspective about
what is happening.