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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Topic

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

Occupation

Native American leader Native American

From

United States

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.

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Jeremy Bentham
Language
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Time
1795 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. Supply Without Burthen; or Escheat Vice Taxation. London: J. Debrett, 1795.

Current Citation

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