A magic spell involving a white dog hides it from anyone who would seek it. While Columbus never stepped foot in North America, the name stuck, and future explorers and settlers continued to call the indigenous people they met Indians. University of Wisconsin Press, 1940), Allen W. Trelease, Indian Affairs in Leonard W. Labaree, ed., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (New Treaties Printed by Benjamin Franklin 1736-1762 (Philadelphia: 9-13. Although his Albany Plan of Union was rejected, various scholars from that time forward, including Julian P. Boyd and Paul A. Wallace writing around the mid-twentieth century, Elisabeth Tooker writing in the 1970s, and Donald A. Grinde and Bruce E. Johansen, writing near the end of the century, drew what they saw as connections between the Haudenosaunee and the foundational documents of the United States: the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. Heath, 1980), pp. Franklin and other colonial (later revolutionary) leaders could see a 1976), pp. Indian Superintendencies," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XXVII, INDIANS 193-210; Milton Hamilton, Sir William Johnson, Historical Society Highlights: Possible origin of how Safe Harbor acquired its name, On this Day in History: Fatal Accident Occurs on the Susquehanna Tidewater Canal. She has reported tribal issues since 1990, and global indigenous issues since 2009. 1976), pp. * This is why the