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The Occom Circle Project is a digital edition of letters from and to Samson Occom (1727-1792), with other of his works. The documents in question are all housed in Dartmouth College's Rauner Special Collections Library. Occom was a Mohegan Indian, intertribal leader, public intellectual, and the most important Indian writer in North America in the 18th century.
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Your Steady,
of
Mohegan
Sincere Friends and Brethren May Talk freely
together without
offence. Such we Conclude, the
of
Your
a Memorial to the
r
never had before, But a Protection in in our Natural
Fathers
fathers
an
and d
to have only
half a
the
clude, that the meaning
we
and Line,
Taxes
Of England had authority over here they
things upon us
under
Tyrants, we have
tives we
your and our Enemies, one Bow, and will
not do, for two Tribes — And what will the Various Tri
of Indians, of this
hear of this
not all Cry out mmauh, mmauh,
that the
We can not Hunt
and many Times not one in
We Conclude Your Excellencies
Pray again, that the
us in our Natural
hinder, or
we
and