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Title:
Senate Committee Hears Indian Claims
Date:
September 24, 1900
Scope & Content:
Newspaper article reporting details of a meeting with United States legislative committee in New York and various New England Indians. The Indians want to have Congress enact legislation which will enable them to go into the United States Circuit Court and sue to establish their rights to property valued at millions lost to them through fraud.

Mohegan

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Object ID:
DOC.1900–09–24A
Object Name:
Newspaper Clippings
Collection:
Tribes – Mohegan 4A
People:
Pharaoh, Wyandank
Johnson, Eugene A.
Johnson, William H.
Cuffee, Nathan J.
Cuffee, James
Noka, John
Noka, Joshua
Secater, David
Fielding, Lemuel
Cropper, Maria
Morrison, Francis
Tredwell, L.B.
Benson, Arthur W.
Kellis, David
Thurston, John M.
Platt, Orville H.
Search Terms:
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Montauk
Shinnecock
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land claims