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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and… — Tecumseh

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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 · 1799
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US and Native American relationsNative Americans
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Time
1799
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Tecumseh
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Tecumseh. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 1.
Original citation
Tecumseh. 1799. Tribal councils with White Men. Urbana, Ohio, USA.

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