SCLC #715 · 1862–1868 Ottawa · citizenship deadline extended after expiry
The 1862 Ottawa treaty planned tribal dissolution and universal citizenship five years after ratification; the 1867 treaty’s surviving Article XVII, proclaimed only Oct. 1868, purported to extend a July 16, 1867 date to July 16, 1869 and made citizenship an individual district-court declaration, expressly preserving tribal membership for non-declarants. The 1862 instrument dates Senate advice July 16 but presidential ratification/proclamation July 28 — a 12-day textual clock tension, not proof of anyone’s intervening status.
Source: README. Craft: five-years-after-ratification ≠ fixed calendar without clock start; extension after purported expiry ≠ proof of intervening citizenship; individual declaration ≠ universal automatic citizenship; non-declarants keep membership.