Read the excerpt from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands." Brother, at the treaties held for the purchase of our lands, the white men, with sweet voices and smiling faces, told us they loved us, and that they would not cheat us, but that the king’s children on the other side of the lake would cheat us. When we go on the other side of the lake, the king's children tell us your people will cheat us. These things puzzle our heads, and we believe that the Indians must take care of themselves, and not trust either in your people or in the king’s children. Which best describes the strategy Sagoyewatha uses in this excerpt to develop the central idea of his speech?
Which is a central idea of Sagoyewatha's speech, "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands"?
Read the excerpt from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands." Brother, at the treaties held for the purchase of our lands, the white men, with sweet voices and smiling faces, told us they loved us, and that they would not cheat us, but that the king’s children on the other side of the lake would cheat us. When we go on the other side of the lake, the king's children tell us your people will cheat us. These things puzzle our heads, and we believe that the Indians must take care of themselves, and not trust either in your people or in the king’s children. Which quotation best reflects the central idea of this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands." Brother, your application for the purchase of our lands is to our minds very extraordinary. It has been made in a crooked manner. You have not walked in the straight path pointed out by the great Council of your nation. You have no writings from your great Father, the President. In making up our minds we have looked back and remembered how the Yorkers purchased our lands in former times. They bought them, piece after piece, for a little money paid to a few men in our nation, and not to all our brethren, until our planting and hunting-grounds have become very small—and if we sell them, we know not where to spread our blankets. Which is the central idea of this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands." Brother, we know that great men, as well as great nations, have different interests and different minds and do not see the same light—but we hope our answer will be agreeable to you and your employers. Why does Sagoyewatha most likely say this?
Which quotation from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands" provides the clearest reason Sagoyewatha says they are determined not to sell their lands?
Which quotation from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands" best reflects the central idea of Sagoyewatha's speech?
Read the sentence from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands." The lands do not belong to the Yorkers; they are ours and were given to us by the Great Spirit. How does this sentence develop the central idea of the speech?
Read the excerpt from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands." Brother, you want us to travel with you and look for new lands. If we should sell our lands and move off into a distant country towards the setting sun, we should be looked upon in the country to which we go as foreigners and strangers. We should be despised by the red as well as the white men, and we should soon be surrounded by the white people, who will there also kill our game and come upon our lands and try to get them from us. Which is the central idea of this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "We Are Determined Not to Sell Our Lands." Brother, the white people buy and sell false rights to our lands, and your employers have, you say, paid a great price for their rights. They must have plenty of money to spend it in buying false rights to lands belonging to Indians. The loss of it will not hurt them, but our lands are of great value to us, and we wish you to go back with our talk to your employers and tell them and the Yorkers that they have no right to buy and sell false rights to our lands. Which best describes the central idea of this excerpt?
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