Mico Chlucco Quotes
Having lost the old ways, we Cherokee must Consider that we cannot live without the English, for they have all their goods of the English and Arms … without which we could not go to War and so we will always be ruled by them.
The quotation is actually combined from two different speeches, July 28 and August 21, 1725. The dependency on guns and gunpowder was one of the key elements that was creating the dependency. See {613048}.
Long Warrior, 18th Century, Mico Chlucco, Cherokee Indian Chief, Statements to his people, 1725, “Colonial Chicken’s Journal to the Cherokees, 1725,” in Mereness, ed., Travels in the American Colonies
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