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Organization name Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Org type Yearly meeting committee
Bio notes The body appointed by the Ohio Yearly Committee to address Indian concerns, particularly education and legislative difficulties. Throughout the 1820s, it developed facilities in the town of Wapakoneta to teach Indians agricultural and reading skills that would help them protect land claims in Ohio. Most Indians were pressured to move west following passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830.
Citations http://www.quaker-chronicle.info/pdfs/pp26-27.pdf http://www.quaker-chronicle.info/pdfs/pp60-61.pdf http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Wapakoneta,_Ohio

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A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook