“that pen and ink witch-craft, which they can make speak things we
never intended, or had any idea of, even an hundred years hence; just as
they please.”—the Ottawa chief Egushawa in council on the banks of
the Ottawa River, 1791

“Nations that deserve the Title of Treaty breakers, that are not to
be bound by the most solemn Covenants, but break the chain of
Friendship, will soon fall into Contempt.”—Governor James Glen of
South Carolina to the Six Nations, 1755