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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 Treaty of Chicago may refer to either of two treaties made and signed in the settlement that became Chicago, Illinois between the United States and the Odaawaa (anglicized Ottawa), Ojibwe (anglicized Chippewa), and Bodéwadmi (anglicized Potawatomi) (collectively, Council of Three Fires) Native American peoples. The first was in 1821 and ...
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 ...
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.
He spent some time working for the governor of the Michigan Territory in the 1820s and became an Indian subagent at Fort Winnebago until he returned to Chicago in 1833. [4] In 1831, Kinzie was appointed by governor as the inaugural Cook County Sheriff. [5] [6] In 1833, Kinzie signed the 1833 Treaty of Chicago as a witness. [7]
In addition to drawings of tribal chiefs, scenes of the Prairie du Chien and Butte des Morts treaty grounds were drawn, as well as a drawing of a Chippewa pipe dance and tomahawk dance. Lewis also made a journey to Fond du Lac in the summer of 1846 and made drawings there. The earliest painting included is dated 1823, and the latest 1833.
The two mixed-race men thus represented the Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi peoples in negotiating the Second Treaty of Prairie du Chien with the United States. By that year, the U.S. was working on Indian Removal as advocated by President Andrew Jackson ; Congress soon passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to authorize the process.