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- ↑ New York State Museum (1908). Report Part 3. p. 203. Retrieved Nov 23, 2015.
- ↑ Tanner, Helen Hornbeck; Adele Hast; Jacqueline Peterson; Robert J. Surtees; Miklos Pinther (1987). Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-8061-2056-8.
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