[Illustration: MANNER OF INSTRUCTING THE INDIANS.]

INDIAN NULLIFICATION OF THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS.
RELATIVE TO THE MARSHPEE TRIBE: OR,
THE PRETENDED RIOT EXPLAINED,


BY WILLIAM APES, AN INDIAN AND PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL

1835.




Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-five, by WILLIAM APES, in the Clerk's Office of the
District Court of Massachusetts.




TO THE WHITE PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS

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The red children of the soil of America address themselves to the
descendants of the pale men who came across the big waters to seek
among them a refuge from tyranny and persecution.

We say to each and every one of you that the Great Spirit who is the