02-26-2009, 08:28 PM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 25
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by R Leo
I love it when Native Americans start a casino and part the white man from his money. Kinda makes up for the shafting they got early on.
|
Here is an interesting read. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mill_Yard_Tract Esp the last paragraph:
On July 4-8, 1788 a council was held with chiefs of theFive Nations of Indian at Buffalo Creek. [1] The various tribes, however, were unwilling at that time to relinquish title to any land west of the Genesee. Phelps pleaded with the Chiefs and Sachems present at Buffalo Creek to allow them some land on the west bank of the Genesee so they could set up and gristmill and a sawmill. They finally agreed on a tract of land west of the Genesee, running south from Lake Ontario approximately 24 miles (39 km) and extending west from the river approximately 12 miles (19 km), with this western boundary paralleling the course of the Genesee, and containing 184,320 acres (746 kmē). This became known as the "Mill Yard Tract". Within the Mill Yard Tract, Phelps and Gorham gifted 100 acres (0.4 kmē) to Ebenezer "Indian" Allen at the high falls of the Genesee River so he could build a grist mill and sawmill. Allen's 100 acre (0.4 kmē) tract became the nucleus of Rochester, New York.
It was later said that when the tribes realized the amount of land actually needed to operate the two mills, they were "astonished."
|