Adhesion by Wapacomagate to Treaty of September 7, 1764 on behalf of the Mississagua [sic] Nation
Adhesion by Wapacomagate to Treaty of September 7, 1764 on behalf of the Mississagua [sic] Nation
Adhesion by Wapacomagate to Treaty of September 7, 1764 on behalf of the Mississagua [sic] Nation
This document asserts that Wapacomagate acknowledges that his people considered themselves "Subjects and Children," not brothers, of the king of England. Without this acknowledgement, they were not to be admitted into the "Submission and Articles of Peace." Wapacomagate signs with a unique doodem: a bird with two medals around its neck. This calls into question what the signifier (i.e. the doodem) is meant to signify: the presence of the medals appear to be a clear representation of Wapacomagate's individual identity, not his nations' collective identity.
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The medals around the eagle doodem may be significant with respect to respresenation and individual versus collective identity.
People: Wapacomagate; Bradstreet; Colonel
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048/4 (folder 48; folio 4)
Created by Research Assistant Aaron Mills during the first summer of the SSHRC Aboriginal Research Grant 2007 to 2010