Excerpt from Survey of Conditions of the Indians in the United States, Vol. 12: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-First Congress, Second Session; March 1, November 25-26, 1929, Januar 3, 1930 The Six Nations believe this treatise by Judge Hughes to be the greatest summary of the treaties, the United States Constitution, and the laws Of Con gress in regard to the purchase of Indian lands ever penned by man. As Secretary Of State, knowing the Constitution and the laws of Congress as no other man living, we can well understand the forceful position he took. And we can well understand that he never dreamed that a great Nation like the United States could have allowed any other method but this one to be pursued. He has stated the only legal and tenable way of securing land title from the Indians. In conclusion, we pray your honorable commission to consider that the United States of America gladly received our assistance to its nationhood in the trying days between 1776 and 1783. That we gave that assistance on the assurance that we could trust the national honor and integrity of the United States. That beyond the beautiful traditions between the two nations Of that time, the Six Nations are secured doubly in the protection guaranteed to them by the supreme law Of the land and by the cession Of billions of acres of the Ohio Valley. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Considers (70) H.J. Res. 218.