Native American Treaty of 1722

from the treaty, dated 1722, between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Mahican Nation and the states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia:

You desire there may be a perpetual peace and friendship between you and the Five Nations and between your children and our children -- and that the same may be kept as long as the mountains and rivers endure, all which we like well.

We will deliver this in charge to our children that it may be kept in remembrance with their children and children's children to the latest ages.

We desire that the peace and tranquility that is now established between us may be as clear as the sun shining in its luster without any cloud or darkness and that the same may continue forever.

source: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, as of May 3, 2008