The Tract, and What Is Left of It

Middle school · English

Answer in your own words.

How deep is the land on each side of the river?

Where does it begin, and where does it end?

Who is it for, and for how long?

What can it not tell us?

Claim

Evidence

Reasoning

1. Historical significance. Why does it matter that the land runs “to the head of the said river”?

2. Evidence. Use the bars: how much land does the Crown’s account show today, and how much was given in 1784?

3. Cause and consequence. Name two events that made the land in the Crown’s account smaller.

4. Continuity and change. What changed on the land between 1784 and today, and what does the Nation say did not change?

5. Historical perspective. Choose one point of view from the table. Why might that group describe the land that way?

6. Ethical dimension. If land was given “for ever” and later sold by others, what would be fair now?

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

Look at a map of where you live. Is it inside the six-mile lines? What would that mean to you?

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