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It ended the war and required the tribe to cede some 20 million acres (81,000 km 2) of land—more than half of their ancestral territorial holdings—to the United States. Even those who had fought alongside Jackson were compelled to cede land, since Jackson held them responsible for allowing the Red Sticks to revolt.
Some adjacent land to the southeast, in Virginia and North Carolina, was also purchased. [2] The land thus delineated, 20 million acres (81,000 km 2), encompassed an area half the size of present-day Kentucky. Henderson and his partners probably believed that a recent British legal opinion, the Pratt–Yorke opinion, had made such purchases legal.
By signing the Treaty with the Klamath of 1864, 16 Stat. 707, [30] the Klamath tribe ceded 20 million acres (81,000 km 2) of land but retained 2 million acres (8,100 km 2) and the rights to fish, hunt, trap, and gather from the lands and waters as they have traditionally done for centuries.
Logstown and other Native American villages, most circa 1750s. The riverside village of Logstown (1726?, 1727–1758) also known as Logg's Town, French: Chiningue [1]: 356 (transliterated to Shenango) near modern-day Baden, Pennsylvania, was a significant Native American settlement in Western Pennsylvania and the site of the 1752 signing of the Treaty of Logstown between the Ohio Company, the ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water.
2000 U.S. population density in persons per sq. mile: yellow 1-4, light green, 5-9. The Poppers propose that a significant portion of the region be gradually shifted from farming and ranching use. They envision an area of native grassland, of perhaps 10 or 20 million acres (40,000 or 80,000 km 2) in size.
Trailing just Russia and Canada, the United States is the third-largest country in the world by landmass, covering nearly 2.3 billion acres. The largest overall landowner in the country is the U.S....
In 1957, Mummy Cave was rediscovered by a local resident on the north side of the North Fork Shoshone River, adjacent to U.S. Routes 14/16/20, 15 mi (24 km) east of Yellowstone National Park. [8] Subsequent archeological excavations in the 1960s produced evidence that the cave had been occupied for over 9,000 years. [9]