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List of names written on United States Senate Document Room letterhead

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Some pages appear to be missing from this copy

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Paper fragments with handwritten and typed text from Obermiller vs. Wylie and Rose legal proceedings

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Written on behalf of "Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan." Signature is illegible.

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Filed in the U.S. Circuit Court, Western District, Southern Division in the case of Mary Obermiller vs. James R. Wylie and Hiram O. Rose

Scope and Contents Title taken from envelope. Includes a list of Ojibwa and Odawa chiefs from the following communities and towns in Michigan: Marquette, Grand Island, Point Iroquois, Thomasville, Tahquamenon, White Fish Bay, Waishkey Bay, Bay Mills, Sault Ste. Marie, Sugar Island, Drummond Island, Hessel, Pine River, Rabbits Back, St. Ignace, Manistique, Nahma, Barksville, Beaver Island, Cross Village, Good Hart, Harbor Springs, Petoskey, Carpenter, Charlevoix, Susan Lake, Suttons Bay, Omena, Kewadin, Star...

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Document refers to previous treaties signed in 1836 and 1855

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Copy of original. Letter from Mooney to Mesick & Miller, Attorneys at Law, Petoskey, Mich., on reverse

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All handwritten. Dates document lists all dates pertinent to the legal proceedings from 1831 to 1889

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Questions about Odawa and Ojibwa bands and which were parties to the treaty of 1855

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Submitted as Exhibit #5 in legal proceeding

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Includes copies of a deposition for Louise Obermiller; a sworn testimony for Frank Wasson; and a letter from Louise Obermiller to Anna M. Wendell dated December 17, 1889

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Also includes a copy of a Notice of Withdrawal, Proclamation of the President, No. 507, May 16, 1854, and letter from the clerk of the Federal Records Center in Chicago in response to a request for a file from the Obermiller vs. Wylie and Rose case, dated March 11, 1957