Transcript: 200th Anniversary of U.S-Iroquois Treaty Commemorated

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SUSAN STAMBERG, Host: Here's something to consider when planning the federal budget - the price of muslin. Every year, the U.S. government gives thousands of yards of the cloth to the six nations that make up the Native American Iroquois Confederacy. The muslin fabric is a peace offering negotiated under the Pickering [sp] Treaty of 1794. For the past 200 years, that treaty, negotiated by Iroquois sachems [sp], or tribal elders, and Timothy Pickering, a representative for President George Washington, has kept the tribes culturally intact on their aboriginal lands. Those tribes are the Mohawk, Oneida, Onandaga, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora. A bicentennial ...

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