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Debates about contextualism as historical method pay glancing attention to language, archives, and the material. In contextualising a letter from four Haudenosaunee families to King George V, I consider ‘context’ as a matter of legal framework, language and materiality, showing how choices about jurisdictions inhere in methodological decisions about context.
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