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Maritime
Petition of Inhabitants of the Town of Nantucket to the Massachusetts General Court
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Nantucket
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Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A complaint of the treatment of men in the the employ of the whale fishery to include Indians and a request for an inquiry into the matter
Petition of Solomon Weeks and Other Christiantown Indians to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives
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Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
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