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The paper the land changed hands on. Charles J. Kappler, compiler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. II (Treaties). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904 — read with the underlying texts in the U.S. Statutes at Large, cited throughout the land leg by their Statutes citations (the 1826 treaty at 7 Stat. 300; the 1834 agreements at 7 Stat. 458, and so on). Gayle Thornbrough, editor, The Letter Book of the Indian Agency at Fort Wayne, 1809–1815 (Indiana Historical Society, 1961), prints the agency's own outgoing correspondence — John Johnston's and Benjamin Stickney's letters, written from the desk this record describes.
What it proved here: every treaty transaction in the land leg — the cessions, the reserves, the annuity schedules, the individual grants to the Richardville and Godfroy families — is stated from the treaty text itself or from Rafert's summary of it, and the two are never blended silently. The agency letter book is what lets the government leg describe the agency from inside: the 1809–1815 letters are the office's own voice.
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- The land, tribes and government legs.