others who were signatories to the 1794 treaty at canandaigua. we know what they looked like, so we show their images. we show the images of the nonnative negotiators. now, that treaty was sent to philadelphia, when it became the capital of the united states. and the big news out of the -- in the american newspapers in 1795, i know, because i have one of them, and i've looked at a lot of facsimiles of others. is that president washington signed the treaty at canandaigua. and the newspapers carried the entire text of the treaty. that's how important it was in 1795, that the senate had ratified and that he had signed the 1794 canandaigua treaty that had been negotiated in upstate new york. both treaties were developed in various ways. the 1790 treaty was more of a direct negotiation between the president and the muskogee delegates. one of the places that they have come from was hickory ground which was the capital of the muskogee confederacy. it was a mother town and had two daughter towns. they had the same name, which was common. and needed a new

washington, in making the treaties of 1790 with the nations of the southeast and the treaty of canandaigua, the six nation confederacy, that was new york at the time. so what george washington wanted as president of the united states was some territory for the united states to govern over and wanted a definition of the state boundaries and a clarity of the nation and the peoples' lands. what the president was trying to do was stop any possible encroachment by european nations, stop any overreach and harm to native people by the states and to enter into secured peace and friendship forever arrangements with the peoples. he was trying to secure the northern and southern, western borders of the united states. and these were buffalo, savannah. we're talking about really eastern western borders at that time. and that was the united states. so the nations had similar goals. they wanted peace and friendship with the united states as a matter of necessity as well as a matter of inclination. they wanted someone to be in charge of stopping the aggressiveness and the lawlessness of the people who wer