SUMMARYFrom gift to dispossession (Tito: "my Virginia ancestors, cursed with niceness, gave them land"): Debedeavon, "the Laughing King" of the Accomac, granted Eastern Shore land to English interpreter Thomas Savage around 1619-1620 (first English settlement on the Eastern Shore); the Powhatan fed starving Jamestown 1607-08; then "no real Indians" petitions 1784-87 and the first allotment in US history 1813 (Accomac/Gingaskin). "Don't cross the river": Ohio River line (Fort Stanwix 1768) demanded by the Northwestern Confederacy in the 1790s; Tecumseh at Vincennes (1810) told Harrison the land belonged to all the nations and couldn't be sold by a few (1809 Fort Wayne Treaty). "Don't come south": Tecumseh's 1811 southern journey to rally the Creek; Red Stick war; Fort Jackson 1814. Record. Lens: power first ran from Ayiti (Santo Domingo 1511); the newcomers petitioned, then revolted (P018, P020).