[Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872)] explaining why they did not give up the land; but the English made so many presents to the Six Nations that their ears were stopped. They would listen to no explanations; and Canasa-teego x had abused them, and called them women. The Six Nations had, however, given to them and the Shawanoes the lands upon the Susquehanna and Juniatta for hunting grounds, and had so informed the governor; but notwithstanding this the white men were allowed to go and settle upon those lands. 1 A viceroy chieftain jwho had been set over them by the Six Nations. 234 THE INDIAN TRIBES Two years ago, moreover, the governor had been to Albany to buy some land of the Six Nations,1 and had described the boundaries by points of compass, which the Indians did not understand, by which the deeds were made to include lands both upon the Susquehanna and the Juniata which they did not intend to sell. When all these things were known to the Indians, they had declared that they would no longer be friends to the English, who were trying to get all their country away from them. He had come now to smoke the pipe of peace with them, and hoped that justice might be done to his people. 2