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Copy for Major Brevoort Indian Agent

 To the President of the United States of America

The memorial and petition of we undirsigned Chiefs and principal men of the Menomonee Nation of Indians residing within the Michigan Territory, represents. -

 That when the New York Indians, or Nantoways? first came to this country, they asked of the Menominees to sell to them a small piece of their lands. That the Menominees replied to them they had no land to sell that their country was already too small  for their numbers, and that they were themselves compelled to hunt upon other Indians lands, - That notwithstanding this answer, the Nantooways? held a treaty with some of the men of the Menomenee Nation, at which none of the principal Chiefs attended, and purchased or pretended to purchase a part of the Menomenees country, the