A few years after the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy were convinced to surrender the Brantford Town Plot[1,2] (a surrender agreement based upon the promise of the Crown that all non-Native squatters would be removed from Haudenosaunee lands and relocated to this Brantford Town Plot), the Crown again approached the Haudenosaunee Six Nations Confederacy. Having failed in their previous promise to remove non-Native squatters from Haudenosaunee territory, the Crown again argued the only way they could remove the squatters was if the Haudenosaunee would surrender yet more lands to the Crown for the relocation of these squatters. The Crown requested this 48,000-acre area, which now makes up the bulk of Brantford Township.       Though the Haudenosaunee agreed to the conditions of the surrender promised by the Crown, these conditions were never met. Squatters were not removed from Haudenosaunee territory, and the Crown failed to compensate the Haudenosaunee according to the terms of agreement.[3] Because the Haudenosaunee were never fully and fairly compensated for this land, and because the Crown never fulfilled its promise to remove non-Native squatters from the Haudenosaunee territory, the Haudenosaunee argue that this land still belongs to them, not Canada. What's more, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's own map of purported land surrenders in the Haldimand Tract shows this area as unsurrendered land.       The Haudenosaunee Six Nations have not been allowed to file land claims since they brought a law suit against Canada and Ontario in 1995. Thus, they have not been able to file a land claim on Purported Surrender 40. However, since the Haudenosaunee argue that the land contained in Surrender 40 still belongs to them, they may choose to treat this land accordingly in the present, rather than waiting decades more for the Canadian government to finally offer a fair and just settlement on this land (something Canada has not yet done even for claims filed decades ago). More information coming soon...