Talk:Six Nations land cessions

Cruft
The entire article is cruft - only one paragraph is actually about the treaty, besides the opening 2 sentences. So the first thing that needs to happen is chop. And then write something about what the terms of the treaty actually were, and the structure of the treaty. Sbalfour (talk) 16:48, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Reviewing the article and text, it appears to me that this article may want to be the point article for 18th century Six Nations land cessions. We have articles for Indian land cessions in Ohio Country and Indiana, for example. This is the only article that currently deals with the topic in an organized manner, but in that sense, it’s only a bare outline. I’d propose changing the article title to “Six Nations land cessions” and redirecting the current title to it. Sbalfour (talk) 18:29, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Done. Sbalfour (talk) 02:03, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Iroquois in the 18th century in which the Indians ceded nearly all of their vast ancestral lands within and adjacent to the northern British colonies of North America. The land cessions covered most or all of the modern states of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, Kentucky, northeastern Ohio, and extended marginally into northern Tennessee and North Carolina. The lands were bordered to the west by the Algonquin tribal lands of Ohio Country, Cherokee lands to the south, and Creek and other southeastern tribal lands to the southeast.

Treaties/cessions covered
The map isn't complete or completely accurate, but the list there is:
 * 1682,1683,1684 Penn. William's Penn's deeds from the Delaware, including Shackamaxon
 * 1718 Virginia Treaty of Albany 1722 codifies concessions of 1718
 * 1738 Penn. Treaties of 1732, 1736 [1737 (Walking)]
 * 1744 Virginia Treaty of Lancaster
 * 1749 Penn. 1742 (Philadelphia), sale in 1749
 * 1754 Penn. Albany Purchase
 * 1768 Penn. Treaty of Fort Stanwix
 * 1784 Penn. Treaty of Fort Stanwix
 * 1788 New York Phelps and Gorham Purchase (First Treaty of Buffalo Creek)
 * 1791 Penn. Erie Triangle Iroquios at Fort Harmar; 1791 Seneca
 * 1795 New York Big Tree 1797

rom the text, we have: 1758 Treaty of Easton