Cherokee Phoenix
Vol. I No. 9
Thursday April 17, 1828
Pg. 3 Col. 5c

 An Indian chief of the Nova Scotia Tribe, has in person, presented a petition to the Legislature of N. S. praying that the selling of RUM to the Indians might be prohibited.- Hampshire Sentinel

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