Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request by the natives at Okokamy (or Christiantown) for the interposition of the General Court regarding the illegal removal of trees from native lands, and the Court's response
A request of John Coquet and others for the interposition of the Legislature in the sale and development of land by overseer Simeon Butler, includes the order for Butler's removal
A complaint of encroachments on their common lands by non-Natives and a request for the appointment of commissioners to investigate and to apportion lands to families
A request for relief from the encroachments of neighbors and others outside of the community and a description of the losses resulting from the encroachments
