Six Nations at New York (1793)
A 1793 National Archives item copies New York's Six Nations land deeds, including a 1785 Oneida and Tuscarora sale of about 300,000 acres.
- Signed
- April 11, 1793
- Senate
- Ratified
What happened
What happened
This National Archives item is a bundle of copies, not a treaty negotiated in 1793. Its formal title is "Exemplification of Deeds and Other Acts Conveying Lands from the Indians of the Six Nations to the State of New York." The Archives file it as Ratified Indian Treaty 19A, with a creation date of 11 April 1793.
According to the National Archives Foundation's teaching page, New York Governor George Clinton sent this abstract to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson on 19 April 1793. The abstract summarizes the 1785 treaty at Fort Herkimer, as an example of the many land agreements New York made with the Iroquois Confederacy, or Six Nations, after the Revolutionary War.
In that 1785 treaty, the teaching page says, the Oneida and Tuscarora relinquished to New York State some 300,000 acres in present-day Broome and Chenango Counties. In exchange they received $11,500, food and rum.
The same page says state and federal officials had promised the Oneida and Tuscarora, who had fought for the patriot cause, that their land rights were inviolable, but that New Yorkers wanted the land and promises withered under pressure.
Good to know. This is a bundle of land deeds to New York State; 1793 is when it was compiled or sent, while the Oneida and Tuscarora sale it includes dates from 1785.
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the Oneida and Tuscarora had relinquished to New York State some 300,000 acres in present-day Broome and Chenango Counties
Exemplification of Deeds and Other Acts Conveying Lands from the Indians of the Six Nations to the State of New York, DocsTeach (National Archives Foundation)In exchange, they received $11,500, food, and rum.
Exemplification of Deeds and Other Acts Conveying Lands from the Indians of the Six Nations to the State of New York, DocsTeach (National Archives Foundation)New York Governor George Clinton sent to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson this abstract of the 1785 Treaty at Fort Herkimer
Exemplification of Deeds and Other Acts Conveying Lands from the Indians of the Six Nations to the State of New York, DocsTeach (National Archives Foundation)Creation date April 11, 1793
Treaties Explorer, National Archives (Ratified Indian Treaty 19A)
Research notes. The account rests on a National Archives Foundation teaching summary of the deeds. The item bundles state-level land transfers, and the 1793 date is when it was compiled or sent, not when the 1785 treaty was made.
What happened next
Everything the record holds about this land and this treaty, in order: what earlier agreements said, what this one did, and what the United States, the courts and the nations did afterwards.
Who is doing the work today
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Who is doing the work
Working with these nations
- Oneida Indian Nation Nation government About 18,000 acres in trust (2022 est.), 25,000-acre cap under 2013 agreement
- Rematriation Native-led Indigenous women-led media, education, community advocacy Give on their site Website
- The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Allied land trust Funder/partner in several tribal land returns Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Sources
Sources
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