Dominican Sisters of Peace
Shepherd’s Farm & Dominican Acres | Blacklick, OH
Land-history research for parcels:
170-001026,
170-00017,
171-000032, and
171-000561
in Blacklick, OH 43044
Trader's map of the Ohio country by John Patten (c. 1753)
Settler Colonialization
The Treaty Period
Invasions.
“You have talked to us about concessions. It appears strange that you should expect any from us, who have only been defending our just rights against your invasions. We want peace. Restore to us our country, and we shall be enemies no longer.”
Unnamed tribal leader at Council of Delaware and 12 other tribes (1763)
“Leaders of the Continental Congress. John Adams, Morris, Hamilton, Jefferson,” by Augustus Tholey (c. 1894)
Good Faith.
“The utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights and liberty, they never shall be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars authorised by Congress; but laws found in justice and humanity shall from time to time be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.”
“An ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States, North-west of the river Ohio,” passed by the Continental Congress (July 13, 1787)
“Third president, 1801–1809,” oil on canvas portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Mather Brown (1786)
Plan.
“I hope we shall drub the Indians well this summer & then change our plan from war to bribery.”
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe (April 17, 1791)
“Map of Treaty Cessions” by Charles C. Royce, Bureau of American Ethnology (1899)
Primary Sources
& Markups
Current Law
Land Becomes Property
Speaker’s Portrait of Jonathan Dayton by Henry Harrison (c. 1795)
Primary Sources
& Markups
“Cleveland, Ohio. From Brooklyn Hill looking east,” by unknown artist (1834)
There’s more
Curated Resource List for the Dominican Sisters of Peace
For narrative nonfiction about the Osage Reign of Terror:
Read David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday, 2017)
For a podcast exploring modern Osage identity:
Listen to Code Switch, Family, fortune, and the fight for Osage headrights (NPR 2023)
For Indigenous perspectives on U.S. history:
Read Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (Yale University Press, 2023)
Read Anton Treuer, Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians But Were Afraid to Ask: Revised and Expanded (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2023)
Share Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People (Beacon Press, 2019)
To learn more about Traders’ kinship and economic role in treatymaking:
Read Martin Case, The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property (Minnesota Historical Society Press (2018)
“Land Buyers Visit Satanta, Haskell County, Kansas” on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway by Francis Marion Steele (c. 1891)