Publication revision history
Current public edition · v1.1.0
Released October 18, 2026 (U.S. Eastern). The version in the shared site subtitle identifies the publication edition. If this number has changed since your last visit, review the entries here to see what changed.
- v1.1.0 — October 18, 2026: Pre-publication editorial and reader-experience work: source-link maintenance, first-visitor guide, social link metadata and preview image, selected timeline expanded to 19 events, clarified GIS and privacy disclosures, and stronger release acceptance tests. Original Phase 1 source cutoff and unresolved Phase 2 title/land-status gates are unchanged.
- v1.0.2 — October 18, 2026: Restored readable contrast for Historical Timeline hero labels, selected filter tabs, and related archive controls; instituted a publication edition/roadmap reconciliation protocol and fail-closed release QA. This is a presentation and process change, not a new legal determination.
- v1.0.1 — October 18, 2026: Publication-wide version number and linked revision history added to the shared masthead subtitle. This is a presentation and change-transparency update; no new legal finding is implied.
- v1.0.0 — October 18, 2026 (baseline): Five-territory atlas and individual research dossiers, public Seneca Nation/Census GIS reference viewer, territory dropdown, and related legal/land-use notes. This baseline is a versioning designation, not a claim that all research was originally produced on this date.
Release protocol: Every public release must classify its change as patch/minor/major, increment the visible publication edition, record an explicit dated version-history entry with user-facing changes and source cutoffs, and update the Roadmap Publication Release Register. The shared masthead, log and roadmap must agree before merging; failing checks block publication. Maintain the separate historical platform milestone v1.0–v1.9 series, rather than treating those original milestones as the current public edition. Research-only updates that modify published text still require a new edition and review of citation currency; redeploys without content changes do not.
How versioning works: major.minor.patch. Patch updates generally cover presentation, corrections and maintenance; minor updates introduce substantive new publication features or research; major updates indicate a significant edition change. Research conclusions and source cutoff dates remain governed by their individual documents. This log is manually maintained, not a live repository feed.
Provenance and continuity. This is a manually maintained development and research progress log, not a live GitHub, Drive or Render feed. Technical release entries are separate from substantive source research. The Phase 1 report has not been updated since its documented October 14 research cutoff.
1Recorded complete public-source research phase
2Active interim Phase 2 research packages (R01 and R02)
16Recorded research, development and governance milestones
Milestone Register
16 entries| Date | Track | Milestone / evidence | Classification | Cross-reference / limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-14 Research milestone | Research | Phase 1 report and six evidence registers recorded complete Cited report; 7 treaty instruments, 17 parcel/lead rows, 66 source IDs, 15 open issues and a four-exhibit map PDF. | Verified project record | Inspect record ↗ Original report cutoff Oct 14; neither deeds nor present federal status certified. |
| 2026-10-14 Research milestone | Research | Phase 2 evidence checkpoint saved; work paused 2006 Buffalo agreement leads, Nation TERO and environmental/access review leads collected; compact, financing and enforcement questions remain open. | Verified project record | Inspect record ↗ No Phase 2 final report and no new approvals. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | Research dashboard prototype and supporting instructions indexed Public navigation built around prior research; Phase 1 document references and parcel summary prepared. | Verified project record | Inspect record ↗ Documentation staging and public-source snapshots; not live Google Drive synchronization. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | Initial public static research site published Five new files introduced to the existing Render-hosted Golden Eagle Studios site; publication PR #78, commit 41681c28. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ No login. Separate Render service not created due to plan service cap. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | Render release note reconciled Technical README updated in PR #79, commit 4be445d1; Render marked new deployment live. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Documentation correction only, not new legal research. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Governance | Golden Eagle Studios LLC copyright attribution directed Project owner designated for original, protectable project IP to extent lawfully owned or assigned; source texts remain subject to separate rights. | Project sponsor direction | Inspect record ↗ Copyright notation is not a substitute for written third-party IP transfers. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | Historical timeline, ICM roadmap and research development log implemented Source-linked chronology, ICM gates, progress log and copyright notices released in PR #80, commit 60ead0cf; Render deployment dep-dbain6lg1s2s73bd92dg verified live on October 18, 2026. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Website release verified via GitHub and Render; direct browser navigation not independently tested in this session. The Phase 1 research report remains unchanged. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | Evidence Explorer v1.2 implementation completed Published searchable index of 131 Phase 1 records with exact source anchors, register/priority filters and CSV export. PR #82; merged commit 2b94d443; Render deploy dep-dbairpe7bikc73en9rh0 confirmed live October 18, 2026. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Render and GitHub release verified; direct unauthenticated browser HTTP check unavailable (DNS resolution blocked in this session). No Phase 2 research resumed or title status certified. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | v1.3 · Parcel dossier workspace All 17 existing public parcel/lead records rendered with SBL, federal-status limitations, source IDs, issue references and evidence checklists. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Assessment ownership is not title; deed, survey and DOI crosswalk remain Phase 2 gaps. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | v1.4 · Geographic evidence desk On-demand county GIS geometry query and separate historic-map references, with no invented status map. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Live county GIS cross-origin response and geographic polygons not independently tested; browser fallback maintained. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | v1.5 · Treaty and instrument library Seven instrument dossiers with legal-character, date and evidence-source distinctions. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Repackages October 14 Phase 1; no new treaty provenance or law verification. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | v1.6 · Authority library and Phase 2 readiness Sixty-six indexed authority records, proposed R01–R08 scope, acceptance gates and technical handoff matrix. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Phase 2 substantive research remains paused until separately reactivated. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Development | v1.6 Phase 2 platform release verified GitHub PR #84 merged, commit dc7b791f. Render deployment dep-dbaj0ohsrm7s73ahceq0 reported live; QA preserved 13 pages, 17 parcels, 7 instruments, 66 sources and Phase 2 pause. | Verified technical release | Inspect record ↗ Direct external browser/real GIS query response not independently verified in this runtime; no substantive research resumed. |
| 2026-10-18 Site / governance milestone | Governance | Chairman approved substantive Phase 2 reactivation October 14 pause superseded by October 18 authorization; initial public-source review focuses on IT-R02, with the governing 2006 agreement and gaming compact tracked under IT-R01. | Approved research scope | Inspect record ↗ Permission does not include paid title, counsel, surveys, external outreach or transactions. |
| 2026-10-18 Research milestone | Research | IT-R02 court and parcel-status evidence checkpoint October 14 federal remand identified; separate APA case docket includes DOI designation and 5 Miami deed attachments. Seventeen assessment parcel leads preserved with status caveats. | Verified interim research record | Inspect record ↗ Original deed schedules, full DOI designation, current litigation and 2005 tract-to-SBL crosswalk not obtained. Canonical detailed checkpoint saved privately in project Drive. |
| 2026-10-18 Research milestone | Research | IT-R01 original 2006 Buffalo agreement located Original SEC-filed execution agreement inspected; Section 9(c), Section 10, Section 11(l), and federally approved 2023 compact extension cross-referenced. | Verified interim research record | Inspect record ↗ Current operative 2026 Compact, full contract appendices/amendments and transaction-specific enforceability unresolved. Canonical detailed checkpoint saved privately in project Drive. |
How a new report milestone is recorded
Every new entry must preserve its work-package identifier, approval, date, research cutoff, exact evidence, source ID(s), limitations, file/version or commit, validation outcome and actual publication state. Research progress must never be inferred from a deployed web page alone.
Next research gate: complete R01/R02 primary-source collection and validate disputed federal-status records; Phase 2 work is active.