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sion failed to function, largely it appears because the chairman did 
not call general sessions of the commission for the purpose of dis- 
cussing the several subjects upon which a report could be based. 
His meetings with the Indians were personally called and the report 
rendered by him a personal report in which other members of the 
commission had no part in discussing or formulating, willing and 
ready as some of the commissioners were to ‘so participate. 
The legal tangle of the New York Indians, therefore, remains as 
it was before the commission was formed. In a measure it may be 
said to have been complicated even further by the idea that the New 
York Indians have a vast land claim against the State based upon the 
Fort Stanwix treaty, which was superseded by the Canandaigua 
treaty of 1795, and which the authorized chiefs and head men of the 
Iroquois signed in good faith. It is said, however, that the Senate 
of the United States never ratified the Canandaigua treaty and that 
it is therefore not a functioning agreement, and that for this reason 
the Fort Stanwix treaty still holds, in which case all western New 
York west of a line drawn south from Oswego must still belong to 
the Six Nations. This is an interesting assertion, but it remains with 
Congress and with the Supreme Court to assert its validity, and not 
the several Indian commissioners of the State. 
New York State Archeological Association. This association 
is in a flourishing condition and during the year last past has held 
its scheduled meetings and lectures in Rochester. One publication 
has been issued during 1922, “The Archeology of the Genesee 
Valley,” by Frederick Houghton. At a meeting of the trustees of 
the association, a petition was made to the Regents of The Univer- 
sity of the State of New York for a-charter. After due considera- 
tion a provisional charter was granted by the Regents and placed 
in the hands of President Alvin H. Dewey of Rochester. The trus- 
tees of the association are Mr Dewey, chairman, Harrison C. Fol- 
lett, Walter Cassebeer, John M. Clarke and Arthur C. Parker. 
New York Indian Welfare Society. This society, which a year 
ago met in Buffalo, convened in its 1922 annual session in the rooms 
of the Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society, through the 
courtesy of the society and its president. Its sessions were produc- 
tive of much good and matters of education, health, public nurses, 
sanitation, agriculture, better schools, care of the indigent, the work 
of the Indian Commission and other matters were fully discussed. 
The society refused to consider the matter of claiming that the 
Indians held legal title to more than 60,000 acres of western New 
