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In the Treaty of Fort Pitt, Congress promised the Delaware protection, guaranteed territorial rights, and even entertained a future Indian state—yet later “simply ignored the treaty”; how should Christians evaluate a nation’s righteousness when it uses sacred language and official documents to promise justice but then breaks those promises when it’s inconvenient?

Another way to ask: How should Christians judge a nation that promises justice in official words and even uses sacred language, but then breaks those promises when it’s inconvenient? What does that say about real righteousness?

Direct Answer Bercot’s lesson suggests Christians must judge righteousness by faithfulness and actions, not impressive documents or promises. When a nation breaks solemn commitments for advantage, it exposes injustice even if it speaks in lofty terms.

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He says Congress promised cooperating tribes separate states with “their own territory and their complete freedom.”
In the Fort Pitt treaty, the U.S. engaged to “guarantee… all their territorial rights in the fullest and most ample manner.”
Article VI frames British warnings as “false suggestions” that Americans planned to “extirpate the Indians and take possession of their country.”
Yet Bercot says Congress “never gave them the protection it had promised,” and after the war “never even considered giving the Delawares a separate state.”
He says Americans “simply ignored the treaty… over and over again,” until they took “all of the Indians’ land.”

Discussion Follow-ups What “official words” do we trust today more than real follow-through? How should Christians respond when national rhetoric about justice clashes with consistent betrayal?

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