Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows. You see as well as I do that we can no longer supply our needs, as we have done from our
brothers, the French. The English sell us goods twice as dear as the French do, and their
goods do not last. Scarcely have we bought a blanket or something else to cover ourselves
with before we must think of getting another, and when we wish to set out for our winter
camp they do not want to give us any credit as our brothers the French do From all
this you can well see that they are seeking our ruin.
-Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe, May 5, 1763
What BEST describes the purpose for Chief Pontiac's speech?
O to convince members of other tribes to resist the British
O to negotiate a trade agreement with the French government
to raise support for the colonists struggle for independence
to appeal to British courts to address Native American grievances