THE OHIO VALLEY-GREAT LAKES ETHNOHISTORY
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French Observations on the
English Counter-Project
(1755)
In: Affaires Etrangeres, Corr. Pol.: Angleterre,
438:139 and in Pease, French Series,
vol. II, 1936, pp. 164-177.
. . . In this treaty [Utrecht] there has never been question of the territory of the Indians because they have neither limits nor boundaries and change their habitations according to their caprice. The English can derive no right in this respect from what is found in the treaty under the vague designation of the Five Nations. It is but a simple enumeration which cannot be decisive as to the status of these tribes, which are very far from admitting English sovereignty. This enumeration is even more indecisive for establishing our possessions, at least as implying that wherever one of those Indians has set his foot, he has taken the propriety from us and given it to the English.
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