Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 35 pages of information about Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States.

Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States: Illustrated by Those in the State of Indiana eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 35 pages of information about Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States.

No. 15.  Cession by the Miamis, October 6, 1818; bounded on the map by purple lines.  Its general boundaries cover all of Central Indiana and a small portion of Western Ohio, but within its limits were included the Wea Reservation of 1818 (No. 17), and six tracts of different dimensions were reserved for the future use of the Miamis [Nos. 21, 29 (30 and 50), (31, 48, 53, and 54), 49, and 51].  The Miamis also assented to the Kickapoo cession of December 9, 1809 (No. 12).  The Kickapoos in turn, by treaty of July 30, 1819, relinquished all claim to country southeast of the Wabash, which was an indefinite tract, and is covered by the foregoing Miami cession of 1818.

No. 16.  Cession by the Kickapoos, August 30, 1819.  This cession is bounded on the map by blue lines, and is largely in Illinois.  It overlaps the Pottawatomie cession of October 2, 1818 (No. 14), the overlap being indicated by a dotted blue line.  It is inborn overlapped by the Pottawatomie cession (No. 23) of October 26, 1832.

No. 17.  Cession by the Weas, August 11, 1820, of the tract reserved by them October 2, 1818.  It is on the Wabash River, in the western part of the State, and is indicated by blue lines.  It is within the general limits of the Miami cession (No. 15) of October 6, 1818.

No. 18.  Cession of August 29, 1821, by the Ottowas, Chippewas, and Pottawatomies, indicated by green lines, and mostly in Michigan.

No. 19.  Cession by the Pottawatomies, by first clause of first article of the treaty of October 16, 1826.  It lies north of Wabash River, and is bounded on the map by blue lines.  This and an indefinite extent of adjoining country was also claimed by the Miamis, who ceded their claim thereto October 23, 1826, with the exception of sundry small reservations, four of which [Nos. 26, 27, 32, and 52] were partially or entirely within the general limits of the Pottawatomie.

No. 20.  Cession by the last clause of the first article of the Pottawatomie treaty of October 16, 1826; in the northwest corner of the State, and bounded on the map by scarlet lines.

As above stated, the Miamis, by treaty of October 23, 1826, ceded all their claim to land in Indiana lying north and west of the Wabash and Miami (Maumee) Rivers, except six small tribal, and a number of individual reserves and grants.  These six tribal, reserves were numbers 23, 27, 32, 52, 25, and 28, the first four of which, as above remarked, were either partially or entirely within the Pottawatomie cession by the first clause of the first article of the treaty of October 16, 1826, and the other two within the Pottawatomie cession of October 27, 1832.

No. 21.  Cession by the Eel River Miamis, February 11, 1828, bounded on the map by green lines.  This tract is within the general limits of the Miami cession (No. 15) of 1818, and was reserved therefrom.

No. 22.  Cession by the second clause of the first article of the Pottawatomie treaty of September 20, 1828, designated by brown lines.

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