can give it, who are as follows: Shawnees, Wyandots,
Potawatomis, Tawas, Chippewas, Winnepaus, Malominese,
Malockese, Sacawgoes, and one more from the north of
the Chippewas. Brethren, you see all these men sitting
before you, who now speak to you.

About eleven days ago we [the Indians] had a council,
at which the tribe of Wyandots [the elder brother of
the red people] spoke and said God had kindled a fire
and all sat around it. In this council we talked over
the treaties with the French and the Americans. The
Wyandot said the French formerly marked a line along
the Alleghany mountains, southerly, to Charleston. No
man was to pass it from either side. When the Americans
came to settle over the line, they told the Indians
to unite and drive off the French, until the war came
on between the British and the Americans, when it was
told them that King George, by his officers, directed
them to unite and drive the Americans back.

After the treaty of peace between the English and
Americans, the summer before Wayne's army came out,
the British held a council with the Indians and told
them if they would turn out and unite as one man, they
might surround the Americans like deer in a ring of
fire and destroy them all. The Wyandot spoke further
in the council. We see, said he, there is like to be
war between the English and our white brethren, the
Americans. Let us unite and consider the sufferings
we have undergone, from interfering in the wars of
the English. They have often promised to help us, and
at last when we could not withstand the army that came
against us, and went to the English fort for refuge,
[Footnote: He is referring to what happened in 1794
at the Fallen Timbers. There was a British post on
the Maumee not far from the scene of the battle. At
this time, it will be remembered, Detroit and other
western posts, which passed to the United States in
1796, were still held by the British.] the English
told us, 'I cannot let you in; you are painted too
much, my children.' It was then we saw the British
dealt treacherously with us. We now see them going to
war again. We do not know what they are going to fight
for. Let us, my brethren, not interfere, was the speech
of the Wyandot.

Further, the Wyandot said, I speak to you, my little
brother, the Shawnees at Greenville, and to y