Treaty with the Potawatomi
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
tribe of the Potawatomi
Potawatomi
The Potawatomi are a Native American people of the upper Mississippi River region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family. In the Potawatomi language, they generally call themselves Bodéwadmi, a name that means "keepers of the fire" and that was applied...
. These treaties concerned the cession
Cession
The act of Cession, or to cede, is the assignment of property to another entity. In international law it commonly refers to land transferred by treaty...
of lands by the tribe, and were part of a large-scale effort by the United States government to remove all such indigenous peoples to lands west of the Mississippi River
Mississippi River
The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
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Treaties
- Treaty of Fort HarmarTreaty of Fort HarmarThe Treaty of Fort Harmar was an agreement between the United States government and numerous Native American tribes with claims to the Ohio Country. it was signed at Fort Harmar, near present-day Marietta, Ohio, on January 9, 1789. Representatives of the Six Nations and other groups including the...
(1789) - Wyandot, etc. - Treaty of GreenvilleTreaty of GreenvilleThe Treaty of Greenville was signed at Fort Greenville , on August 3, 1795, between a coalition of Native Americans & Frontiers men, known as the Western Confederacy, and the United States following the Native American loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. It put an end to the Northwest Indian War...
(1795) - Wyandot, etc.: lands south and east of a line from Cuyahoga River to Portage, west to Fort Recovery, southwest to the Ohio across from the mouth of the Kentucky River (near Madison, Indiana) - tribes (11); Potawatomi, Shawnee, Delaware, Miami - Treaty of Fort WayneTreaty of Fort Wayne (1803)The Treaty of Fort Wayne was a treaty between the United States and several groups of Native Americans. The treaty was signed on June 7, 1803 and proclaimed December 26, 1803.-Parties:...
(1803) - Delawares, etc.: lands around Vincennes, Indiana -tribes: Miami Treaty of VincennesTreaty of VincennesThe Treaty of Vincennes is the name of two separate treaties. One was an 1803 agreement between the United States of America and the Miami and their allies, the Wea tribes and the Shawnee...
(1804) -lands along the Ohio River north to the Fort Wayne (1803) treaty boundary. North boundary, line from the Falls of the Ohio to Vincennes. - tribes: Delaware, Piankashaw - Treaty of Fort IndustryTreaty of Fort IndustryThe Treaty of Fort Industry was a successor treaty to the Treaty of Greenville, which moved the eastern boundary of Indian lands in northern Ohio from the Tuscarawas River and Cuyahoga River westward to a line 120 miles west of the Pennsylvania boundary, which coincided with the western boundary of...
(1805) - Wyandot, etc. - Treaty of GrouselandTreaty of GrouselandThe Treaty of Grouseland was an agreement negotiated by Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory on behalf of the government of the United States of America with Native American leaders, including Little Turtle and Buckongahelas, for lands in Southern Indiana, northeast Indiana, and...
(1805) - Delawares, etc.: lands south of a line from the northeast corner of the Fort Wayne (1803) treaty east to the Greenville line near Brookville, Indiana. - tribes: Miami, Delaware, Piankashaw, Potawatomi - Treaty of DetroitTreaty of DetroitThe Treaty of Detroit was a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Potawatomi Native American nations. The treaty was signed at Detroit, Michigan on November 17, 1807, with William Hull, governor of the Michigan Territory and superintendent of Indian affairs the sole...
(1807) - Council of Three Fires, etc. - Treaty of BrownstownTreaty of BrownstownThe Treaty of Brownstown was between the United States and the Council of Three Fires , Wyandott, and Shawanoese Indian Nations...
(1808) - Council of Three Fires, etc. - Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809) - Delawares, etc.: lands from the East Fork of the White River (nr Seymour) on the Grouseland (1805) boundary west to a point near Danville, Illinois. - tribes: Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami
- Treaty of Fort Wayne (Supplementary) (1809): lands west of the Greenville Line from the Grouseland (1805) line near Napoleon, Indiana, northeast to the W. Fork of the White River east of Muncie, then northeast to Fort Recovery. see above
- Treaty of GreenvilleTreaty of GreenvilleThe Treaty of Greenville was signed at Fort Greenville , on August 3, 1795, between a coalition of Native Americans & Frontiers men, known as the Western Confederacy, and the United States following the Native American loss at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. It put an end to the Northwest Indian War...
(1814): lands, none - peace, end battles from War of 1812. - tribes: Wyandot, Delaware, Shawnee, Seneca, Miami, Potawatomi - Treaty of Spring Wells (1815) - Council of Three Fires, etc.: official end of the War of 1812
- Treaty of St. LouisTreaty of St. LouisThe Treaty of St. Louis is one of many treaties signed between the United States and various Native American tribes.-1804 - Sauk and Fox :...
(1816) - Council of Three Fires, etc. - Treaty of Miami Rapids (1817) - Council of Three Fires, etc.: lands; south of the Maumee to the portage
- St. Mary's TreatyTreaty of St. Mary'sThe Treaty of St. Mary's was signed on October 6, 1818 at Saint Mary's, Ohio between representatives of the United States and the Miami tribe and others living in their territory. The accord contained seven articles. Based on the terms of the accord, the Miami ceded to the United States...
(09/1818) - Council of Three Fires, etc.: New Purchase (1818) -lands, all of central Indiana south of the Wabash, except the Great Miami Reservation (see #9 & #10 below) to the Tippecanoe River. West of the Tippecanoe below a line from Buffalo (east of Monon) to a point near Danville, Illinois. - grants: Josetta Beaubien, Anotoine Bondie, Peter Labadie, Francois Lafontaine, Peter Langlois, Joseph Richardville, and Antoine Rivarre - Treaty of L'Arbre Croche and Michilimackinac (1820) - Council of Three Fires
- Treaty of ChicagoTreaty of ChicagoThe Treaty of Chicago may refer to either of two treaties made and signed in Chicago, Illinois between the United States and the Ottawa, Ojibwe , and Potawatomi Native American peoples.-1821 Treaty of Chicago:...
(1821) - Council of Three Fires: lands, north of a line north of the southern tip of Lake Michigan (Indian Boundary), and east of a line running north of the south bend of the St. Joseph River - Treaty of Prairie du ChienTreaty of Prairie du ChienThe Treaty of Prairie du Chien may refer to any of several treaties made and signed in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin between the United States, representatives from the Sioux, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago and the Anishinaabeg Native American peoples.-1825:The first treaty of Prairie du...
(1825) - Sioux, etc. - Treaty of Green Bay (1828) - Winnebago, etc.
- Treaty of Prairie du ChienTreaty of Prairie du ChienThe Treaty of Prairie du Chien may refer to any of several treaties made and signed in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin between the United States, representatives from the Sioux, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago and the Anishinaabeg Native American peoples.-1825:The first treaty of Prairie du...
(1829) - Council of Three Fires - Treaty of ChicagoTreaty of ChicagoThe Treaty of Chicago may refer to either of two treaties made and signed in Chicago, Illinois between the United States and the Ottawa, Ojibwe , and Potawatomi Native American peoples.-1821 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)
- St. Mary's Treaty (10/1818)
- Treaty of Mississinewa (1826): lands, north of the Wabash and south of a line along the St. Joseph River (of Fort Wayne) to the portage to the Eel River, along the Eel to a point near Denver, west to the Tippecanoe River. - tribes: Miami, Potowatomi -grants: 106 (20 Miami, ?? Potowatomi)
- Treaty of Mississinewa (1826): lands, north of a line at the southern tip of Lake Michigan (Indian Boundary Road) to its junction with the Chicago (1821) treaty line. Treaty of Carey Mission (1828) -lands, south of the Chicago (1821) treaty line to a line near S.R. 6 (La Paz-Syracuse) then southeast to the Eel River near Columbia City
- Treaty of St. Joseph (1827)
- Treaty of St. Joseph (1828)
- Treaty of TippecanoeTreaty of TippecanoeThe Treaty of Tippecanoe was an agreement between the United States government and Native American tribes in Indiana on October 26, 1832.-Treaty:...
(10/20/1832): lands, north western Indiana, west of a line running south from South Bend - Treaty of TippecanoeTreaty of TippecanoeThe Treaty of Tippecanoe was an agreement between the United States government and Native American tribes in Indiana on October 26, 1832.-Treaty:...
(10/26/1832) - Treaty of TippecanoeTreaty of TippecanoeThe Treaty of Tippecanoe was an agreement between the United States government and Native American tribes in Indiana on October 26, 1832.-Treaty:...
(10/27/1832): lands, north central Indiana, except the Miami National Reservation - Treaty of Maxeeniekuekee (1834)
- Treaty of TippecanoeTreaty of TippecanoeThe Treaty of Tippecanoe was an agreement between the United States government and Native American tribes in Indiana on October 26, 1832.-Treaty:...
(1834) - Treaty of Potawattimie Mills (1834)
- Treaty of Wabash (1834): lands, western third of the Miami National Reservation. Wabash River on the north from Logansport to New Waverly and directly south to a line from Frankfort to west of Tipton. -tribes: Miami
- Treaty of Logansport (1834)
- Treaty of Turkey Creek PrairieTreaty of Turkey Creek PrairieThe Treaty of Turkey Creek Prairie, also unofficially called the Treaty of the Potawatomi, was signed March 26, 1836 between Mes-quaw-buck, a chief of the Potawatomi tribe of Native Americans and the United States of America, represented by Abel C. Pepper. The accord originally contained six...
(1836) - Treaty of TippecanoeTreaty of TippecanoeThe Treaty of Tippecanoe was an agreement between the United States government and Native American tribes in Indiana on October 26, 1832.-Treaty:...
(03/1836) - Treaty of TippecanoeTreaty of TippecanoeThe Treaty of Tippecanoe was an agreement between the United States government and Native American tribes in Indiana on October 26, 1832.-Treaty:...
(04/1836) - Treaty of Logansport (04/22/1836 a)
- Treaty of Logansport (04/22/1836 b)
- Treaty of Yellow River (1836)
- Treaty of Chippewanaung (09/20/1836)
- Treaty of Chippewanaung (09/22/1836)
- Treaty of Chippewanaung (09/23/1836)
- Treaty of Washington (1837)
- Treaty of Wabash (1840): lands, extinguished the Miami National Reservation. -lands, eastern two-thirds of the Big Miami Reservation. Wabash River on the north from New Waverly to the mouth of the Salamonie River, south to a line from west of Tipton to a point in southern Grant County
- Treaty of Potawatomi Creek (1846) - Council of Three FiresCouncil of Three FiresThe Council of Three Fires, also known as the People of the Three Fires, the Three Fires Confederacy, the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians, or Niswi-mishkodewin in the Anishinaabe language, is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe , Ottawa , and Potawatomi...
and PotawatomiPotawatomiThe Potawatomi are a Native American people of the upper Mississippi River region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family. In the Potawatomi language, they generally call themselves Bodéwadmi, a name that means "keepers of the fire" and that was applied... - Treaty of Shawnee Reserve (1861)
- Treaty of Washington (1866)
- Treaty of Washington (1867)