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was no indication that there ever had been an "Indian 

 Villiage" thereon — and the only signs that Indians had 

 ever resided there, consisted in three small patches of 

 ground, in all not more than one acre, that had the 

 appearance of having been planted in corn many years 

 before, and were now much grown up with bushes & 

 briars — There was no enclosures no cabins or wigwams, 

 no graves, nor any thing else to indicate that an "Indian 

 Village had ever been thereon — That he is well ac- 

 quainted with Indian customs — has often seen and knows 

 the appearance of Indian Villages — That he is well and 

 intimately acquainted with an Indian known by the name 

 of Sho-bon-ier, 1 to whom two Sections of land were re- 

 served in the treaty of Tippecanoe of the 20 th of Oct. 

 1832, lying & being situated within the state of Illinois, 

 more than seven miles from said Sections 8 and 17, that 

 after he had settled upon this land and made valuable 

 improvements thereon he was threatened by one Butler, 

 a white man who purchased an interest in the said reser- 

 vation that he would get "old Sho-bon-nier to locate his 

 reservation upon his improvements," and that he, this 

 deponant thereupon applied to the Agent of Indian affairs 

 at Chicago, in Illinois and was by him informed that the 

 said Indian was aware that his reservation was not in 

 the State of Indiana, that he the agent had directed the 

 surveyor employed for that purpose to survey out & re- 

 port his reservation — that the Indian had been with the 

 surveyor, but from some reason had not yet pointed out 

 the whereabouts of his village, and as the said agent 

 verily believes because he never had any village, or any 

 place called one — and that the said agent encouraged this 

 deponant to go on with his improvements on the afore- 

 said Section 8, and gave this depondant the papers hereto 

 annexed by seal, by him officialy signed — 



And this deponant further saith that he sufficiently 

 understands the Indian language to converse with the 



1 See Introduction, 12 ff. 



