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.
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."
In Document: Delaware Nation; Wyandot Nation; Ottawa Nation; Chippewa Nation
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Claus Papers, Vol. 6 (M.G. 19, F1) reel C1479, pp. 73-74.
Created by Research Assistant Aaron Mills during the first summer of the SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant 2007 to 2010