No Further Claims are to be Admitted
Document 1793Mohawk leader Joseph Brandt addresses the Council at Buffalo Creek and observes that the council at Niagara seemed to be headed toward peace until messengers from the Creek Nation arrived with charges that white people were encroaching on the land of the Confederacy. Brandt recommends that the lands already settled by whites be surrendered with the understanding that no further claims are to be admitted beyond an established boundary line.
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Mohawk leader Joseph Brandt addresses the Council at Buffalo Creek and observes that the council at Niagara seemed to be headed toward peace until messengers from the Creek Nation arrived with charges that white people were encroaching on the land of the Confederacy. Brandt recommends that the lands already settled by whites be surrendered with the understanding that no further claims are to be admitted beyond an established boundary line.
Date
10/10/1793
Author
Recipient
Sent from
Buffalo Creek
Collection
Document number
1793101090000
Notable persons
Joseph Brandt
John Butler, Superintendent of Indian Affairs
Israel Chapin, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Northern Department
Chiefs of the Six Nations
Farmer's Brother
Great Council at the Miami Rapids
Mohawks
first deputation from the Confederate Indians
Commissioners of the United States at Niagara
messengers from the Creek Nation
white people
the Confederacy
Congress
Joseph Brant
Notable locations
New York
Niagara
Miami Rapids
Buffalo Creek
the Muskingham
Notable items
our proceedings
Council Fire at the Rapids of the Miami
intelligence [information]
abrupt termination of the negotiations for peace
claims upon our lands
cause of the war
line of demarcation
various accidents
boundary
sincerity and justice
our branch of the Confederacy
lands along the Ohio
settlements
belt of black and white wampum