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say to the bones of our fathers, &quot;arise, and come 

 with us into a foreign land ? 



At the pow-wow connected with the making of A chiefs 

 the North West Angle Treaty one of the Chiefs Term8 

 said: &quot;My terms I am going to lay down before 

 you ; the decision of our Chiefs ; ever since we came 

 to a decision you push it back. The sound of the 

 rustling of gold is under my feet where I stand. 

 We have a rich country ; it is the Great Spirit who 

 gave us this; where we stand upon is the Indian s 

 property and belongs to them. If you grant us 

 our requests you will not go back without making 

 the treaty.&quot; 



Dekanisora, a famous chief of the Onondagas, Agreement oi 

 was one of six ambassadors representing the sept. te i?th f p 

 Senecas, the Onondagas, and the Cayugas who 1726 

 made at Albany an agreement with the English ; 

 the conditions of which were that they should 

 surrender all their hunting-grounds into the hands 

 of Coorakhoo, as they called the King of Eng 

 land, &quot;to be defended by his said majesty, his 

 heirs and successors, to and for use of us, our 

 heirs, and the said three Nations.&quot; 



The question of the Indian s continued title to Density of 

 the land was closely connected with that of the p P ulation 

 density of the Indian population. It was 

 perfectly evident, from the earliest days, that 

 the sparseness of the latter must result in the 

 modification or extinction of the former. It 

 is probably, a mistake to imagine that, as 

 far as the interior of the northern half of 

 North America is concerned, the Indian popula- 



