APPENDIX. 



the River St. Mary's, and including tlie portage around the falls * 

 This is the most northerly point to which the Indian title has 

 been extinguished in the United States. The different bands of 

 Ojibwais possess all the country northwest of this post, extend- 

 ing through Lake Superior to the sources of the Mississippi, 

 where they are bounded by the Assennaboins, the Crees, and the 

 Chippewyans of the Hudson Bay colony. Their lands extend 

 down the Mississippi to the Sioux boundary, an unsettled line 

 between the junction of the River De Corbeau and the Falls of St. 

 Anthony. South of Lake Superior, they claim to the possessions 

 of the Winnebagoes, on the Ouisconsin and Fox Rivers, and to 

 those of the Pottawatamies and Ottoways, on Lake Michigan. 

 The Wild Rice, or Monomonee Indians, are an integral part of 

 the Ojibwai nation, deriving their name from the great reliance 

 they place on the zizania aquatica as an article of food. They 

 live in small, dispersed bands between the Ojibwais of the lake, 

 and the Winnebagoes of Fox River. Those residing among the 

 Ojibwais speak the same language, but with many peculiarities 

 and corruptions on the waters of Green Bay. They claim the 

 respective tracts upon which they are located. These are, prin- 

 cipally, the valleys of the Fox and Monomonee Rivers, and the 

 rice lands contiguous to the Fol. Avoine, Clam Lake, and Lac de 

 Flambeau, which lie on the table-lands between Lake Superior 

 and the Mississippi. 



The right of soil to all that part of the Peninsula of Michigan 

 not purchased by the United States is divided between the Ojib- 

 wais and the Ottoways. The former claim all the shores and 

 islands of Lake Huron situated north of the Saganaw purchase, 

 except those in the vicinity of Michilimackinac and the St. Martin, 

 or Gypsum Islands, which were ceded by treaty on the 6th of 

 July, 1820.t Their territories continue north, through the River 

 St. Mary's, embracing the country on both banks, and the islands 

 in the river, saving Drummond's Island, which is garrisoned by 

 the British, and the Four Mile concession at the Sault or Falls, 

 now occupied by a detachment of the United States' army. It is 

 not deemed necessary to point out the limits of their territories 



* Vide acts passed at the second session of the 16th Congress of the United States, 

 page 88. 



f Vide acts passed at the second session of the 16th Congress, p. 91. 



