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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



IeTH. ANN. 18 



SCHEIJXJI.E OF INDI^^T 



jriiere or how 

 concluded 



Reference 



Description ofc<ssion or lesirnition 



1807 

 Nov. 17 



Detroit, Micli- 

 ixau. 



1808 

 Nov. 10 



Nov. 



1809 



Feb. 28 



Sept. 30 



lort Clark, 

 Louisiana 

 territory. 



BrowustowD, 

 Micbigau 

 territorv. 



Act of Con- 

 gress. 



Fort Wayne, 

 Indiana. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 105. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 107. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 112. 



Stat. L., 

 II, 527. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 113. 



Ottawa, Chip- 

 pewa, Wy- 

 andot, and 

 Potawato- 



Great and Lit- 

 tle Osage. 



Chippewa, Ot- 

 tawa, iPot- 

 awatomi, 

 Wyandot, 

 and Shaw- 

 nee. 



Wyandot . 



Delaware, 

 Fotawatomi, 

 Miami, and 

 Eel Eiver 

 Miami. 



4. Three miles square on the river Raizin at a )>lace called 



Macon, and where the river Macuu falls into the river 

 Kaiziu, which place is about 11 miles from the mouth 

 of said river Raiziu. 



5. Two sections of 1 square mile each ou the river Rouge 



at Scginsiwiu's village. 

 U. Two sectious of 1 luile square each at Toni|uish'.s vil- 

 lage, uear the river Rouge. 



7. Three miles square on Lake St Clair above the river 



Huron, to include JIachonce's village. 



8. Six sectious of 1 mile square each, within the cession 



aforesaid, in such situations ;is the said Indiaus shall 

 elect, subject to the approval of the I'resident of the 

 U. S. as to the places of location. 



It is :igreed between the U. S. and the Great and Little Osage 

 nations that the boundary line between their respective pos- 

 sessions shall begin at Fort Clark, on tlie Missouri. 5 miles 

 ;ibove Fire Prairie, and running thence a due .S. course to the 

 Arkansas and down the same to the Mississijjpi, hereby 

 coding to tlie F. S. all lands lying E. of said liue and N. of 

 Hhe southwardly bank of the river Arkansas. 



The Osages also cede to the U. S. a tract 2 leagues square, to 

 embrace Fort Clark aud to be laid otf in such manner as the 

 President of the U. S. shall think proper. 



The Osages also cede all claim to lauds situated northwardly 

 of the river Missouri. 



The afores.aid tribes cede to the U. S. a tract of land for a road, 

 of 120 feet in width, from the loot of the rapids of the river 

 Miami of Lake Erie to the western line of the Connecticut 

 reserve, an<l all the laud within 1 luile of the said road on 

 each side thereof for the purpose of establishing settlements 

 along the same. 



The said tribes also cede to the I'. S. a tract of land for a road 

 onl/i, of 120 feet in width, to run southwardly from what is 

 called Lower Sandusky to the boundary liue established by 

 the treaty of Greenville. 



The U. S. lease for .">0 years to the Alabama Indi.ans, 2,.500 acres 

 in the territory of Orleans. W. of the Mississipjii river, pro- 

 vided that if aliandimed the tract should revert to the U. S. 



The U. S. reserve for the Wyandots, two tracts, not exceeding 

 .5,000 acres, at Urowustown aud Maguagna, Michigan terri- 

 tory, provided that if abandoned by them the tracts should 

 revert to the F. S. 



The foregoing tribes cede to the U. 8. all that tract of country 

 iucluded bet ween the boundary line estal J ished by the treaty 

 of Fort Wayne, the Wabash, and a line to bo drawn from the 

 month of a creek called Raccoon creek, emptying into the 

 Wal>ash ou the SE. side, about 12 miles below the mouth of 

 Vermilion river, so as to strike the boundary liue established 

 by the treaty of Grou.seland at such a distance from its com- 

 mencement at the NE. corner of the Viucennes tract as will 

 leave the tract now ceded 30 miles wide at the narrowest 

 place. 



The said trilies also cede a tract iucluded within the following 

 boundaries : Beginniiigat Fort Recovery, thence southwardly 

 along the general boundary line established by the treaty of 

 Greenville to its intersection with the boundary liue estab- 

 lished by tlic treaty of Grouseland ; thence along said line to 

 a point from which a Hue drawn parallel to the Hrst-meu- 

 tioned line will be 12 miles distant trom the same, aud along 

 the said parallel line to its iutersecticm with a liue to be 

 drawn from Fort Recovery, parallel to the liue established 

 by the said treaty of Grouseland. 



