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Two different "first peoples" stand for this ground, and the build prints them as two facts, never as one. First in the record: the unnamed makers of the finds Chapman reports in Sections 6 and 8 of this township — stone-walled pits four to five feet deep, arrowheads, tomahawks — a material presence assigned to no nation and no date in the only carrier that reports it (the tribes file's archaeology article). They are first because their work is in the ground; nothing else — no name, no language, no century — is claimed for them, and any article that named them would be inventing. First in possession at contact: the Potawatomi (Bodéwadmi), in possession of this valley at the strength of the treaty record that took it from them — with the printed exception that the Miami village and presence stand at the portage, the county's north, a negative for this ground (the tribes file's nations test). Between the two facts lies the whole of the township's unwritten time, and the sequence article's discipline is to leave it lying there: the makers unnamed, the Potawatomi in possession, the Miami excepted — three clauses, no synthesis. The instrument caveat rides with the possession fact, as banked: no Union-Township-specific treaty instrument exists; the cessions that govern this ground are valley instruments (the before-the-city and tribes files).
Principal sources: the banked Native Nations lk-archaeology, lk-peoples, lk-nations-test; Chapman (1880) as carried there.