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Peace was not made at once, Brant and Governor Simcoe 

 opposing it, but the Indians at last grew weary and made peace 

 with Wayne on his own terms. In 1795 the difficulties between 

 the United States and Great Britain were settled, and the latter 

 no longer aided the Indians. 



About the end of the century, before and after, there were 

 many Iroquois land sales in New York, all described in The, 

 Indian Problem of 1889. That of 1784 was a treaty with the 

 United States, in which a boundary line was drawn : 



From the mouth of a creek about four miles east of Niagara, 

 called Oyonwayea, or Johnston's landing place, upon the lake 

 named by the Indians Oswego, and by us Ontario ; from thence 

 southerly in a direction always four miles east of the carrying ; 

 path betw^een Lakes Erie and Ontario, to the mouth of Teho- 

 seroron, or Bufifalo creek, on Lake Erie; thence south to the 

 north boundary of the State of Pennsylvania ; thence west to 

 the end of the said north boundary; thence south along the westt 

 boundary of the said State to the river Ohio ; the said line from 

 the mouth of the Oyonw^ayea to the Ohio shall be the western 1 

 boundary of the lands of the Six Nations. 



This outside territory had been gained by conquest and was 

 practically lost by war. The lands west of this line were sur- 

 rendered to the United States and those east and north were- 

 reserved for the Six Nations, except 6 miles square about the 

 fort at Oswego. This was reaffirmed at the treaty of Fort Har- 

 mar, June 5, 1789, but the Mohawks were left out and the Onel- 

 das and Tuscaroras were confirmed in their land titles. Crim- 

 inal offenses would be punished by state law. but much was left 

 to the Indians themselves. In Judge jMarshalTs words they were 

 lOr dependent nations. 



The treaty of Jan. 21, 1795, acknowledged the Oneida, Onon- 

 daga, and Cayuga reservations and specified the Seneca boun- 

 daries, besides securing a right of passage. A special treaty wa- 

 made at the same time with the Oneida, Tuscarora and Stock- 

 bridge Indians, recompensing them for losses in the war, pro- 

 viding mills, and " $1000, to be applied in building a convenienl 

 church at Oneida, in the place of the one which was burnt by tlu 

 enemy in the late war." 



