Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat
Certificate of the record
The Tract, and What Is Left of It — Six miles each side of the Grand River, from its mouth to its source: set apart in 1784 for the Mohawks and their posterity, never surrendered by them.
POS001-261030-000003 · version 1 · A draft — not yet for use
What it is
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.
| Its date | 2026-10-29e |
| Made by | Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River |
| Their qualifications | Drawn by Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River from the National Books’ own data; Book IV, Lands and the Tract shows it on a page of its own. |
| Their duty | Not recorded. |
| Its standing as a survey | This is the Nation’s determination, made from the sources named; it is not a survey under the Surveyors Act, and was not prepared by a licensed surveyor. |
| Datum and projection | Not a map; the Three Villages’ inset keeps the land map’s datum (NAD83 / UTM zone 17N). |
How it was made
An illustration, drawn from the sources below; printed in A3 landscape (420 × 297 mm), with A2 and A1 print files, 3 mm bleed and crop marks.
How surely
An illustration, not a survey: the figures stand for no particular family. The Three Villages’ inset is the Register’s own land map, drawn from its layers.
A poster: it teaches, and does not decide. The record of any person’s line is the Register’s.
Its sources
- Lands and the Tract, Book IV — Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, 2026; the Nation’s own
- The Acquired Territory Doctrine, Book II — Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, 2026; the Nation’s own
- Acquired Territory — Benjamin Doolittle UE, 2026; the Nation’s own
- The Register’s land map — Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat; data under licence with the Grand River Conservation Authority and the Open Government Licence – Ontario, 2026; the Nation’s own
- The Gazette of the Nation, Nos. 61 and 63 — Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, 2026; the Nation’s own
- Cowichan Tribes v. Canada (Attorney General), 2025 BCSC 1490; Kingspan Insulated Panels Ltd. v. Brantford (City), 2010 ONSC 4610; Isaac v. Davey, 1977; Chippewas of Sarnia, 2000; Mabo (No 2), 1992 — the courts as cited; the cases
What it carries
✓ A title · ✓ Its maker · ✓ Its date · ✓ A scale bar · ✓ A scale ratio (1 : n) · ✓ North · ✓ A legend · ✓ Its datum and projection · ✓ Its sources, with their dates · ✓ A statement of its accuracy · ✓ A locator (where it is in the wider world) · ✓ Its credits and licences
Its files, and their fingerprints (SHA-256)
Its entries in the integrity log
How the records are kept
The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
To cite it
Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, The Tract, and What Is Left of It (poster), POS001-261030-000003, version 1, 28 October 2026. https://mohawkuniversity.org/Register/verify/POS001-261030-000003 ISBN 978-1-0680559-0-4, Mohawk’s Printer for Grand River.
A draft affidavit of the custodian of the records
To be read with counsel before it is used; to be sworn or affirmed before a commissioner.
I, ______________________, of ______________________, MAKE OATH (or AFFIRM) AND SAY:
1. I am the ______________________ of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat, and have the keeping of its records, and so have knowledge of the matters below.
2. Attached as Exhibit “___” is a true copy of the record POS001-261030-000003, version 1, “The Tract, and What Is Left of It”, as it is kept in the Secretariat’s records.
3. The records of the Mohawk Nation of Grand River Secretariat are kept in the Nation’s Register, an electronic records system kept in the usual and ordinary course of the Secretariat’s work. When a file is taken into the Map Room its SHA-256 fingerprint is taken at once and entered in the Register’s integrity log, in which every entry is sealed with the fingerprint of the entry before it; a certified version’s files cannot be changed, and a change makes a new version, the old being kept. At the date of this certificate the log holds 36 entries and, read through, every entry seals the one before it.
4. The SHA-256 fingerprint of each file of the record, as it was taken into the records, is set out in the certificate of the record attached; the fingerprint of the copy attached is the same.
5. To my knowledge the system was at all material times operating properly, and nothing in it has been altered except as recorded in its integrity log.
SWORN (or AFFIRMED) before me at ______________________, on ______________________.
Electronic documents are received as evidence on proof that they are what they purport to be, and of the integrity of the system that kept them (Canada Evidence Act, ss. 31.1–31.3; Evidence Act (Ontario), s. 34.1). This certificate sets out that record; whether a record is admitted, and its weight, are for the court.
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