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Official copy produced by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs in 1871. Transcription does not include first five pages of payroll to guardians of incompetents and orphans. See files.

John H. Millar, Plan of Wyandott City, Kansas Territory. 1857. Engraved by Wm. Schuchman, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. 47.75" x 35". The map shows the street layout for Wyandotte City, and designates two large public spaces: Oakland Park and Huron Place,…

From Cowan's:
An unusually wide belt crafted from hand-spun cotton warps and sinew wefts; deep purple glass beads form a single cross placed in the center and is surrounded by a field of opaque white, tubular glass beads of varying lengths, overall…

See: Havard, The Great Peace of Montreal of 1701 (2001), in Bibliography.

Engraved sheet of coin silver. Attached raised rim around with soldered suspension loop (placed at a right angle to the face of the medal) above. Dimensions: 105 x 149 mm [middle size] Obverse Two leafless tree trunks and a fir tree shelter an Indian…

Inscribed lower right: "Drawn by Chegeree the [Miami?] Indian who Says he has Traveled through the Country." Orientation with north toward the upper right. Shows area from Lake Erie to the mouth of the Ohio River. Includes Sandusky "Sianusski"…

Full title, translated from the French: "Letter from Mr. de Longueuil [governor at Detroit] among the Huron in their wintering place, written by Father de la Richardie on March 20, 1746. I [Potier] received it at Ondietsi ["it is a long point of…