Outside the Act: Three Roads from 1779

Middle school · English

Answer in your own words.

The source: who wrote it, and for whom?

Why was it written?

What does it promise, and for how long?

What can it not tell us?

Claim

Evidence

Reasoning

1. Name the three villages. Why did the Crown make a promise to their people?

2. What does “posterity” mean, and why does it matter that the 1784 grant mentions it?

3. What happened at the Bay of Quinte in 1793? What happened at the Grand River?

4. On the diagram, why are two roads red and one gold?

6. Who should be able to give up land promised “for ever”?

5. Which point of view did you choose to explain?Canada and the courtsThe Six Nations of the Grand RiverThe Mohawk Nation of Grand River

Why might that group describe the Patent that way?

Think about it: who can give up a promise made to people “and their posterity”?

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