Untitled, authorless document asserting the validity of Indian title to Land & Soil.

Untitled, authorless document asserting the validity of Indian title to Land & Soil.

Untitled, authorless document asserting the validity of Indian title to Land & Soil.

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Introduction

The author of this document begins "There cannot be a Stronger proof of the Indian rights & Claims to the Land & Soil than the Americans pretending to make a purchase thereof at the Treaty of Muskingun in the words..." The Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Delaware are listed as Nations to said Treaty. The conclusion reached in this document is that "the Americans cannot after this pretend that G.B. [Great Britain] gave to America any right to the Lands in question, otherwise she would not have called a treaty to purchase them."

Nation of Maker: None
Nation of Origin

In Document: Delaware Nation; Wyandot Nation; Ottawa Nation; Chippewa Nation

Date Made or Date Range: 17uu/18uu
Techniques or Format

Ink on paper

Motifs and Patterns

No

Additional Context

No

Description of Writing/Text

People: None.

Condition: Poor.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular times, materials, styles and uses

Date given in document.

Catalogue, Accession or Reference Number: Claus Papers, Vol. 6 (M.G. 19, F1) reel C1479, pp. 73-74.
Date Relative was First Removed or Collected from its Community Context: 0
GKS Reference Number: 948
How to Cite this Item

Claus Papers, Vol. 6 (M.G. 19, F1) reel C1479, pp. 73-74.

Record Creation Context

Created by Research Assistant Aaron Mills during the first summer of the SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant 2007 to 2010

Approximate Place of Origin

43.6511, -79.347