About three winters ago, the Canadian Government set out to take mortgages on farms of our returned soldiers to secure loans made to them intending to use Canadian courts to enforce these mortgages in the name of Canadian authority within our country… the Canadian Government began to enforce all sorts of Dominion and Provincial laws over us and quartered armed men among us… We appealed to Ottawa in the name of our right as a separate people and by right of our treaties, and the door was closed in our faces. We then went to London with our treaty and asked for the protection it promised and got no attention. Then we went to the League of Nations at Geneva with its covenant to protect little peoples and to enforce respect for treaties by its members and we spent a whole year patiently waiting but got no hearing.

Deskaheh recognized the power of newspapers and radio in broadcasting his message to a broad audience. He delivered his last speech on March 19, 1925, in Rochester, New York. H. George