Tribal Affairs

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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
With the potential of selling their land and removing to Oneida Country, Tunxis leaders request a copy of the Colony's laws so that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities, as well as Connecticut's Indian policies.
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
Relationships among the Tunxis and among the other Native peoples living among them
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
With all of the Tunxis leaders dead, two men are proposed by colonial authorities and accepted by the Tunxis and other Native people living among them
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
With a promise of land from the Six Nations at Oneida, Tunxis leaders request permission to sell their Farmington property and a committee to oversee the process.
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Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A resolve empowering guardians Josiah Stone, Joseph Twitchel and Eloazer Kingsbury to sell land on behalf of native peoples of Natick, and the General Court's response