Policy Toward the Five Nations

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Type

Letterbook

Description

United States policy toward the Five Nations: This document authorizes money to be spent on clothing, domestic animals, implements of husbandry, and for encouraging useful artificers among the Indians of the Five Nations.

Date

04/23/1792

Document number

1792042390001

Page start

1

Note

Enclosed in Knox [Instructions to Brigadier General Rufus Putnam], 05/22/1792.

Notable persons

George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Stockbridge Indians
Oniedas
Cayugas
Onandagas
Tuscaroras
Senecas
Henry Knox
happiness of the Five Nations
useful artificers to reside in their villages
Tobias Lear
War Department

Notable locations

Philadelphia

Notable items

clothing
domestic animals
implements of husbandry
Seal of the United States
sovereignty and independence of the United States