Six Miles Deep is built like a working legal–historical toolkit, not a museum. You don’t have to read everything in order, but there is a logic to how the parts fit together.

1. Start with the Encyclopedia (the Core Four)
The Encyclopedia holds the anchor documents for this whole project:

• Haldimand Pledge (1779)

• Haldimand Proclamation (1784)

• Lord Dorchester’s Proclamation (1789)

• Simcoe Proclamation (1796)

Each entry gives the full text, context, and a plain-language explanation of what the document does. If you’re new here, start with these. They explain who the Crown promised, what it promised, and how long those promises were meant to last (“posterity… forever”).

2. Use the Lexicon to decode the language
As you read, you’ll see unfamiliar phrases: “posterity,” “such others,” “by either sex,” “jurisdictional vacuum,” “taxation without clear jurisdiction,” and so on.

The Lexicon is where those terms live:

• Each term has a short definition plus an explanation of why it matters on Grand River.

• Many terms are auto-linked inside articles—hover or tap to see a quick tooltip, click to go to the full Lexicon entry.

If something feels dense, jump to the Lexicon term, then come back. The site is meant to be read in loops, not straight lines.

3. Visit Case Law to see how courts think
The Case Law section takes key court decisions (and a few historical authorities) and breaks each one into a common 1–8 structure:

1. Case title & citation

2. Neutral decision summary

3. Historical & legal context

4. Key principles

5. Implications for Haldimand and Mohawk Loyalist issues

6. Points of interest to Mohawk of Grand River posterity

7. Unresolved questions / future directions

8. Sources

Use this section when you want to know: “Has a court ever talked about something like this before?” It’s also where you’ll find the current test case, His Majesty the King v. Benjamin Doolittle et al., set against the wider legal backdrop.

4. Follow the categories if you’re tracking a theme
Across articles and cases you’ll see recurring themes, often used as categories:

• Constitutional Breach, Supremacy, and Repair

• Indigenous Rights, Fiduciary Duties, and Treaty-like Instruments

• Mandamus, Remedies, and International Character

• Oaths, Citizenship, and the Constitutional Order

• Roads, Trespass, and Public Use on Indigenous Land

Clicking a category lets you follow one thread—like roads and trespass, or oaths and citizenship—across documents, terms, and case law.

5. Learn through the course that uses this ecosystem
Six Miles Deep is not just a reading archive; it also supports a structured course on the Haldimand framework. The course walks learners through:

• The Core Four instruments in the Encyclopedia,

• The key vocabulary in the Lexicon, and

• Selected decisions from the Case Law section.

Assignments and reflection pieces send students back into this ecosystem—linking documents, terms, and cases—so they can see how the pieces work together rather than treating them as isolated facts. If you’re from a university, college, or community program, this course can be used as a standalone micro-course or as a foundation for deeper work on reconciliation, land, and constitutional repair.

6. Read for pattern, not just for facts
Six Miles Deep isn’t just about “what the law says.” It’s about:

• How Crown promises, Mohawk clan law, and Loyalist hereditary status fit together,

• How those structures have been ignored or misused, and

• What it would look like to repair that breach in our time.

Use the Encyclopedia to see the original promises, the Lexicon to understand the vocabulary, Case Law to see how modern courts have (or haven’t) caught up, and the course to walk through it all in a guided way. The aim is to give Mohawk posterity, students, and allies a shared map of the legal terrain we’re all standing on.