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History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson's River — Passage 91 (part 2)
By the terms of this treaty the inde pendence and equality of the nations parties to it, was recognized, while the tribes not in alliance with them, but " under the pro tection " of, or in treaty with, the English were to be regarded as subjects of the crown, and to sustain, in that relation, the position of citizens for their protection and redress. These facts