PROMPT: In chapter 4 of your Give Me Liberty (5th ed.) textbook, you were given a primary source - Pontiac's "Speeches (1762 & 1763)." Using the P.A.P.E.R. system described in the writing guide "How...

From Pontiac, Speeches (1762 and 1763)
Presuppositions
The presuppositions in the source are several. They differ from our times in that they are inciting the population to annihilate all Englishmen who are occupiers of their lands. While the focus in our times is on negotiating our way to a settlement between disputing parties, the idea here is to kill and destroy the English completely. It reflects the rage of the Native population.
The text seems justified to me as a reader, since it is made...