Consider this letter from several Cherokee chiefs, protesting violations of the Treaty of Hopewell: At our last treaty…we gave up to our white brothers all our land we could any how spare, and have but little left to raise our women and children upon, and we hope you wont let any people take any more from us without our consent. We are neither Birds nor fish; we can neither fly in the air nor live under water. Therefore, we hope that pity will be extended to us. We are made by the same hand in the same shape as yourselves.13
