HISTORY. lOi 



treaties of peace and friendsliip. The Polawatamis of the 

 river Illinois, the Kickapoos, the lowas, the Tetons, the 

 Sioux of the lakes, the Sioux of the river St. Peter's, the 

 Piankeshaw^s, the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatamis, with 

 bands of the Wyandot, Delaware, Seneca, Shawnee and 

 Miami tribes, all of which eight tribes and bands united in 

 one treaty ; the Yaiiktons, the Sacs of the Missouri, the 

 Foxes, the Osages, the Kanzas, the Mahas, each came into 

 treaties of amity. The Sacs, of Rock River, were invited 

 by the Commissioners on the part of the United States to 

 enter into treaty at the same time : they declined it at this 

 time, but in the succeeding year, in 1816, they signed arti- 

 cles of a treaty of peace and friendship ; and in the same 

 year three other tribes of the Sioux, who are designated as 

 the Sioux of the Leaf, the Sioux of the Broad Leaf, and the 

 Sioux who shoot in the pine tops, also the Winnebagoes of 

 Wisconsin River, and in 1817, the Menominis, Ottos, and 

 Poncaras or Puncas. In 1819, similar treaties were made 

 with the Pani Mahas, the Pitavirate or Noisy Panis, the 

 Pani Republic, and the Grand Panis. 



In 1816, the united tribes of Ottawas, Chippewas and 

 Potawatamis, residing on the Illinois and Milwaki Rivers, 

 and the southwestern parts of Lake Michigan, relinquished 

 their right to the lands ceded by the Sacs and Foxes in 1804, 

 lying south of a due west line from the southern extremity 

 of Lake Michigan to the Missisippi, and also ceded a trad 

 beffinninff on the left bank of the Fox River of Illinois, ten 

 miles above the mouth of said Fox River, and extending to 

 Lake Michigan, lying on both sides of the Des Plaines 

 about equally, and in its whole width twenty miles. 



In 1818 Illinois was admitted uito the Union as a State, 

 and Missouri in 1821. 



After the organization of the state government in Illinois, 



