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Wyandotte Indian Petition


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“May the Great Spirit always preserve us in the peace and friendship and under the protection of the United States.” 

Manuscript document signed by eight Indians with their original tot  em signatures which are highly pictorial being the petition of the Wyandotte Nation of Indians and also the Chippewa, Ottawa and Pottawattamie Nations, on behalf of the Wyandottes.,  Michigan Territory 31 October 1807 "To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of America", 

A Petition to retain Villages of the Wyandotte Indians.  The Wyandotte Indians petition to retain their villages and homes at Brownstown and Mongauga, south of Detroit along the Detroit River.  The petition further states that the representatives of other tribes have signed not because of personal interest but to demonstrate their support for the Wyandots. 

The Wyandotte Indians did not receive the assurances they desired regarding their villages in the Michigan Territory as evidence by another petition to Congress in 1812 on the same subject.


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