“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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