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<p>This receipt for $10,000 from the Six Nations, the Iroquois confederacy made up of the Mohawk, Oneida, Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Tuscarora nations, to Thomas and Richard Penn, the “true and absolute Proprietaries of Pennsylvania,” served as proof that Sir William Johnson, the British superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern district, had delivered their payment. The Indigenous signers used totems of the snake, fox, crow, turtle, and tomahawk, as well as others, to show their individual and clan identity. The $10,000 was payment for Indigenous lands ceded in the Treaty of Fort Stanwix in 1768.</p>
