The orange-striped area represents an estimate of the lands that the Province of Canada attempted to obtain through the "General Surrender of 1841" (claim 11 of 29) --an attempted surrender that was unsuccessful, as was later acknowledged before the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. [1]       In attempting to secure this surrender, Chief Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Samuel Jarvis, did not follow the proper rules and procedures: he failed to provide a map or description of the lands that he was asking the Haudenosaunee Six Nations to surrender, and he used threats and coercion in his attempt to induce the surrender of virtually all of the Haudenosaunee Six Nations’ Grand River lands. At a time when there were more than 50 Haudenosaunee Six Nations Chiefs, only six people showed up to view the surrender document, not all of these six people signed the document, and it is not clear whether those who signed were all chiefs (or whether they knew what it was that they were signing).[2] Immediately after this handful of people signed the document, the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy Council successfully petitioned the government of the Province of Canada to have the surrender rescinded. [3]       Despite historical acknowledgements that this attempted surrender was unsuccessful, the Canadian government regularly cites the “General Surrender of 1841” as part of its evidence for having obtained certain Haudenosaunee Six Nations lands. [4]       In a different but related claim, ten years later Samuel P. Jarvis was investigated for misappropriation of Haudenosaunee Six Nations Trust Fund monies. Though he was found guilty (claim 25 of 29), the misappropriated funds have still not been repaid to the Haudenosaunee Six Nations. More information coming soon...