The Tract, and What Is Left of It

The Nation’s own land map at full height with the Six Nations reserve drawn inside it in plum and the part of it outside the six-mile line hatched, the line’s corroborated stretches in green with the surveyed limits named; beside it nine in ten acres in type you can read across a room, a hundred squares with five gold for what is left, the Tract’s towns every one inside the line, the three villages the class left drawn as little villages, and you on the bank; beneath, four figures: 950,000 acres set apart, nine in ten taken in the class’s name, 46,000 in the reserve, 465 kilometres of line. The chain from 1784 to today in eight numbered links with a family walking down it, each sale and surrender made in the class’s name carrying its verdict as a chip and the instruments’ own words, with the Nation’s reading beside it; beneath it the account, what the Tract has yielded to others in the eight layers of the Schedule of Unjust Enrichment, Gazette No. 61, to a floor of $2.96 trillion. Who is who with busts of Haldimand, Dorchester, Simcoe and Brant; the cases in two lists, what the courts protected and what supports the Nation, Kingspan v. Brantford and Cowichan among them, and what each case did not decide. The web edition unrolls the map, lets the acres go and the right stay, draws the acres step by step, sets the villages burning, explains where the Schedule’s $2.96 trillion comes from layer by layer and what it could actually be with the time value and the years left out, and opens each link to a tap.