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tho' it is the voice of the whole nation, that we are come to speak for them and the whole land. - We have not come to speak for ourselves, but for them that have sent us. They have not sent us without invitation." Wednesday Morning June 11th. 1794. Statement of facts which concern the Cherokee Indians. 1st. Our situation is as follows.- We are a people that Template:Unclear near neighbours to the Creek Indians who are always at war with the white people and will not keep their treaties either with white or red people. - By their being more powerful than us they pass and repass through our country in a hostile manner going to war with the Cumberland, Kentuckey the new state, South Carolina and Georgia, and when they are pursued by the white people by their going thro' our nation our people are killed for the crimes they have committed. They also steal our houses and kill our cattle and hogs. We are not able to make war with them of ourselves. We are therefore obliged to bear their insults. 2ndly. The practice of Template:Unclear stealing has become so common both by the white people and the red people and our young men and the young white people, that it is the cause of many lives being lost, when the head men on both sides are doing all they can to keep peace but cannot stop these bad practices. 3rdly. We have been ill treated b the State of Georgia and the new state, by parties coming into our country and killing our people, when it was our wish to be at peace; and friends of our people that are killed will have satisfaction and sometimes do wrong by killing the innocent which is not our wish, but contrary to our headmen's orders. By his means we have neither peace nor war. 4thly. We have been ill treated by the new state in a treaty held at Knoxville called the Treaty of Holston near the mouth of the French Broad River, with Gov: Blount, where we lost all our hunting ground, clear from our own nation to Kentuckey Old Boundary, which land we never intended to give up; which has left us almost without hunting ground of our own. We are therefore obliged to apply to other nations of red people for liberty to hunt on their land and not withstanding we are reduced to a small shot of land, just to make Template:Unclear other provision, the white people of the new state will not let us have peace to raise our children. We have therefore come to our father. The