The way, and the only way, to check and stop this evil, is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it never was divided, but belongs to all for the use of each. That no party has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.

— TECUMSEH, Indian Chief, August 12, 1810, Moore’s American Eloquence, Vol. II., p. 355.