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THE TEST AT TRIBES SIZE — THE INSTRUMENT-BY-INSTRUMENT RUN IS THE LAND'S
The removal-era map of this valley is dotted with reserves — and none of the dots falls in this township: The Land runs the test instrument by instrument and returns it negative for Townships 37 North, Ranges 3 and 4 East, across the 1828 and 1832 treaties and the reserve-cessions of 1834–1836. What that meant on the ground is the point of printing it here: no family on this ground held a treaty reserve, no village here bargained for its acres, and no Penn ground appears in the long paper trail of reserve locations, floats and cessions-back that the Wyckoff accounting and Royce's cession maps record. The reserves that stood near are named in The Land at their true places — Bertrand's across the state line in Michigan, Moran's one range east at the Elkhart's mouth, the portage half sections west — and their nearness is not a share. This ground passed from cession to survey to market without an excepted acre, and the peoples who used it had no paper foothold in it when the removal came.