American Literature / Unit 3 AML 0219 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pontiac's Speech at Detroit
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The idea
Pontiac's speech at Detroit, given about seventeen sixty-three and surviving in a French journal of the siege, retells a Lenape prophet's journey to find the Master of Life. The vision instructs the people to put aside European goods and return to their own ways.
In practice
A prophet's journey, become a war speech.
Where people slip
The speech survives only in a Frenchman's record.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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