The Tract: a Study Brief

University and academic · English

Discussion responses; the 1,500-word assignment is submitted as your instructor directs.

1. Why might surveyors in 1791 and 1821 have drawn straight lines? What did that do to the grant?

2. Jones wrote that the lands continue “to its source”, but the Tract was cut off at the Base Line. What should decide its true extent?

3. Who can surrender land granted to persons and their posterity? Does a surrender by chiefs or a council bind them?

4. Ridout counted about 674,910 acres; the Nation counts about 950,000. What explains the difference?

5. What is the difference between land “in hand” and land “in right”, and why does it matter?

6. Apply. Choose one town on the Tract. What would recognising the class’s interest change there, and what would it leave alone?

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