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Hist 12 Pontiac Speech Summary
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Pontiac's Speech 1763 Causes of the French and Indian War Summary.
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PONTIAC’S SPEECHChief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe addressing a gathering of Ottawa, Huron, and
Potawatomie Indians, May 5, 1763
It is important for us, my brothers, that we exterminate (destroy)from our lands this nation
which seeks only to destroy us. You see as well as I do that we can no longer supply our
needs, as we have done from our brothers, the French.
The English sell us goods twice as dear as the French do, and their goods do not last.
Scarcely have we bought a blanket or something else to cover ourselves with before
we must think of getting another; and when we wish to set out for our winter camp they
do not want to give us any credit as our brothers the French do.
If I ask for anything for our sick, [the English] refuses with the reply that
he has no use for us. From all this you can well see that they are
seeking our ruin. Therefore, my brothers, we must all swear their
destruction and wait no longer.
They are few in numbers, and we can accomplish it. All the nations
who are our brothers attack them – why should we not strike too?
Are we not men like them? Have I now shown you the wampum
belts [beaded belts symbolizing an agreement or treaty] which I
received from our great father, the Frenchman [King Louis XV]? He tells us to strike them.
Why do we not listen to his words? What do we fear? It is time.
Source: The Kuhn Library at University of Maryland Baltimore County
MY NOTES
SOURCING CLOSE READ USING EVIDENCE
Do you trust Pontiac and How does the author feel
Why did the Odawa join in
the information he about the French
the French and Indian
presents? Why or why not? compared to the English?
War?
I do trust the information The author likes the French They joined the French and
that he presents because because he refers to them Indian war to support their
this is a primary source that as his father. allies the French. They also
is from the University of wanted to exterminate the
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