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The 1833 Treaty of Chicago was an agreement between the United States government and the Chippewa, Odawa, and Potawatomi tribes. It required them to cede to the United States government their 5,000,000 acres (2,000,000 ha) of land (including reservations) in Illinois, the Wisconsin Territory, and the Michigan Territory and to move west of the Mississippi River.
Treaty of Green Bay (1828) - Winnebago, etc. Second Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1829) - Council of Three Fires; 1833 Treaty of Chicago (1833) - Council of Three Fires; Each of the following treaties is commonly referred to as the Treaty with the Potawatomi, though it was the official title of none of them. Treaty of Portage des Sioux (1815)
The territorial effects of the Treaty of Saginaw. The Treaty of Saginaw, also known as the Treaty with the Chippewa, was made between Gen. Lewis Cass and Chief Mash Kee Yosh, Chief John Okemos, Chief Wasso and other Native American tribes of the Great Lakes region (principally the Ojibwe, but also the Ottawa and Potawatomi) in what is now the United States, on September 24, 1819, proclaimed by ...
Supplement to Treaty with the Chippewa—Red Lake and Pembina Bands: 13 Stat. 689: 1864: May 7: Treaty with the Chippewa, Mississippi, and Pillager and Lake Winnibigoshish Bands: 13 Stat. 693: 1864: October 14: Treaty with the Klamath, etc. 16 Stat. 707: 1864: October 18: Treaty with the Chippewa of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River: 14 Stat ...
The treaty ceded to the United States all lands in Michigan Territory south of the Grand River, with the exception of several small reservations. Also ceded by the Native Americans was a tract of land, an easement between Detroit and Chicago (through Indiana and Illinois ), around the southern coast of Lake Michigan , and specific Native ...
They were en route to make a treaty with the Chippewa on the Red River that was postponed due to the Uprising. Nicolay had been sent as Lincoln's personal representative to the Chippewa. U.S. Chippewa treaty Commission led by William P. Dole in camp at Big Lake, Sherburne County; John G. Nicolay on horse at left, 1862.
The leading historian of North Dakota, Elwyn B. Robinson, described the treaty as satisfying the "sullen Chippewa" who had "wanted to sell their land to the United States" and who had "plundered" fur traders' property and "threatened to stop the steamboat" if their long-frustrated desires were thwarted. [20]
Events leading to the American Civil War Dred Scott , an enslaved African American, who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom. The resulting 1857 Supreme Court decision angered Northern anti-slavery forces, escalated tensions, and led to secession and war.