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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 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 ...
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.
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.
Google Books online versions (including facsimile download) of History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan, by Andrew J. Blackbird, 1887. The Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird Collection at the University of Notre Dame Archives contains letters written to and from Andrew J. Blackbird as well as his sister, Margaret Blackbird ...
A map of the Six Nations land cessions. The Six Nations land cessions were a series of land cessions by the Haudenosaunee and Lenape which ceded large amounts of land, including both recently conquered territories acquired from other indigenous peoples in the Beaver Wars, and ancestral lands to the Thirteen Colonies and the United States.