Read the following excerpts from a speech Canassatego made while negotiating a land-payment deal with...
British colonists are occupying Native American lands and destroying important hunting grounds.
British colonists are trying to take advantage of the Iroquois by offering inferior goods in exchange for land.
British colonists do not have ownership of these lands and must leave.
Excerpt
We know our lands are now become more valuable: The white people think we do not know . . . and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.
We are not well [treated] with respect to the lands still unsold by us. Your people daily settle on these lands, and spoil our hunting . . .
We must insist on your removing them, as you know they have no right to settle.

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