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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



[ETH. iNN. 18 



SCHEDULE OF I]>^DI^I«^ 



Fort A r in - 

 strong, 

 Rock Is- 

 land, Illi- 

 nois. 



Stat. L., 

 V1I,37U. 



Sept. 21 



Fort Arm- 

 strong, 

 Rock Is- 

 land, Illi- 

 nois 



Stat. L., 

 vn,374. 



Oct. 11 Tallaliasseo, 

 Florida. 



Stat. L., 

 vii,377. 



The Winnebago n.ation hereby cede to the U. S. all lands to 

 which said nation biive title or claim lying to the S. and E. 

 of the Wisconsin river and tlii^ Fox river of Green bay, 

 bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at the mouth of the 

 Fee keetol-a-ka river; thence np Rock river to its source; 

 thence with a line dividing the Winnebago nation from 

 other Indians E. of the Winneljago lake to the Grand Chute; 

 thence np Fox river to the Winnebp^go lake and with the 

 northwestern shore of said lake to the inlet of Fox river; 

 thence np said liver to Lake Puckaway and with the eastern 

 shore of the same to its most southeasterly bend; thence 

 with the line of a purchase made of the Winnel)ago nation 

 by the treaty at Prairie du Chien, Aug. 1, 1829, to the place 

 of beginning. 



In consideration of the al)0ve cession, the U. S. agree to gr.aut 

 to the Winnebago nation, to be held as other Indian lands 

 are held, that part of the tract of country on the W. side of 

 the llississipjii river known as the Neutral Ground, embraced 

 within the following limits, viz: Beginning on the W. bank 

 of the Mississippi river, 20 miles above the mouth of the 

 upper loway river, where the lino of the lands pnrchased of 

 the Sioux Indians, as described iu the third article of the 

 treaty of .Inly 15, 18,'W, begins; thence with said line as snr- 

 veyeil and marked to the eastern blanch of the Ke<l Cedar 

 creek; thence down said creelc 40 miles in a straiglit line, 

 but following its windings, to the line of a purchase made 

 of the Sac and Fox tribes of Indians, as designated in the 

 second article of tlie aforesaid treaty; theme along the 

 southern lino of s.aid last-mentioned purchase to the Mis- 

 sissippi at the point marked by the surveyor appointed by 

 the President of the U. S. on the margin of said river, and 

 thence np said river to the place of beginning, the exchange 

 of the two tracts of country to take place on or before the 

 1st day of June next; tliat is to say, on or before that day 

 all the Winiiebagoes now residing within the country ceded 

 by them as above shall lejivethe said country when and not 

 before they shall be allowed to enter upon the country 

 granted by the U. S. in exchange. 



Sauk and Fox. The confederated tribes of .'^acs and Foxes cede to the U. S. ail 

 lands to which the said tribes have title or claim (with the 

 exception of the reservation hereinafter made) included 

 within the following bounds, to wit: Beginning on the MIs- 

 sissipjii river at the point where the Sac and Fox northern 

 boundary line as established by article 2 of the treaty of 

 .Inly 15, 1830, strikes .said river; thence np said boundary 

 line to a point 50 miles irom the Mississippi, measured on 

 j said line; thence in a right line to the nearest point on the 

 1 Red Cedar of the loway, 40 miles from the Mississippi river; 

 thence in a right line to a point in the northern bnnnd.ary line 

 of the state of Missouri 50 miles, measured on said boundary, 

 from the Mississippi river; thence by the last-mentioned 

 boundary to the Mississippi river, and by the western shore 

 of said river to the place of beginning. 

 Out of the foregoing cession the U. S. agree to a reservation 

 for the use of the Sacs and Foxes of a tract of land contain- 

 ing 400 square miles, to be laid otl' under the direction of the 

 President of the U. S., from the bound.ary line crossing the 

 loway river, in such manner that nearly an equal portion of 

 the reservation may be on both sides of said river and ex- 

 tending downwards so as to include Ke-o-knck's principal 

 village on Its right bank, w hieh village is about 12 miles 

 from the Mississippi river. 



Appalachicola. The Appalachicola band cede to the 1^. S. all title and interest 

 in a reservation of land made for their benefit iu the addi- 

 tional article of the treaty concluded at Canij) Moultrie, in th-T 

 I territory of Florida, on Sept. 18, 1823, .and which is described 

 j in said article "as commencing on the Appalachicola 1 mile 

 I 1 below Tuski llajo's improvements, running up said river 4 



