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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



SCHEDULE OF I^DI^iST 



1832 

 Oct. 27 



1833 



Feb. 14 



)l'liere or how 

 concluded 



Green Bay . 



Castor Hill, 

 Missouri. 



Seneca .ngen- 

 cy,onhead- 

 w at (IT 8 of 

 C o w s k i u 

 river. 



Fort Gibson, 

 on the Ar- 

 liansas riv- 



lief ere lice 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 40.") 



Stut. L., 

 VI), 410. 



St.at. L., 

 vn, 411. 



Piankishaw 

 and Wea. 



TTnited Seneka 

 and Shaw- 

 nee. 



JJcticription of 



'jii or i-eservtitiuii 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 414. 



Cherokee na- 

 tion west of 

 the Missis- 

 sippi river. 



acres, excepting and reserving thcrelYoni the priviJei/r of 

 Charles A. Griguon, for erecting a niill on Apple creek, etc., 

 as apjiroveil by the Department of War, Apr. 2l', 1831, and 

 all conlirnied private land claims on Fox river. And that in 

 exchange for the above a quantity of land eqnal to that 

 which is added to the southwestern side shall lie taken oH' 

 from the northeastern side of the said tract, described in that 

 article, on the Oconto creek, to be run and marked by the 

 commissioner appointed by the I'. S , so that the whole num- 

 ber of acres to be granted to the Six Nations and St IJegis tribe 

 of Indians shall not exceed the quantity of 500,000 acres. 



The Piaukeshaws and "Weas cede to the U. S. all right to lauds 

 iu the states of Missouri and Illinois. 



The U. S. cede to the Pianke;ghaw and Wea tribes for their per- 

 manent residence, 250 sections of land within the limits of 

 the survey of the lands set apart for the Piankeshaws, Weas, 

 and Petnias, bounded K. by the western boundary line of the 

 state of Missouri for 15 miles; N. by the southern boundary 

 of the lands assigned to the Shawanoes; W. by lands assigned 

 to the Peorias and Kaslvaskias, and S. by the southern line 

 of the original tract surveyeil fur the Piankeshaws, Weas, 

 and Peorias, said tract being intended to include the present 

 villages of the said Piaukeshaws and Weas. 



The united tribe of Seneca and Shawnee Indians hereby cede 

 to the V. S. all the land granted to them on the W. side of 

 Nc-o-sho or Grand river, by treaties made respectively with 

 the Senecas of Sandusky and the mixed band of Senecas and 

 Shawuees of Lewistowu, Ohio, on Julv 20, 1831, aud Feb. 28, 

 1831. 



In consideration of said lands described and ceded as above, 

 the U. S. agree to grant by letters patent to the united tribe 

 of Senecas and Shawuees in manner as hereinafter men- 

 tioned, the following tract of land lying on the E. side of 

 Ne-o-sho or Grand river, viz: bounded on the E. Viy the W. 

 line of the state of Missouri; S. by the present established 

 line of the Cherokee Indians; W. by Ne-o-sho or Grand river, 

 and N. by a line running parallel with said S. line and ex- 

 tending so far from the present N. line of the Seneca Imliaus 

 from Sandusky as to contain 60,000 acres, exclusive of Ihe 

 laud now owned by said Seneca Indians, which said liuuud- 

 aries include, however, all the land heretofore granted said 

 Senecas of Sandusky, on the E. side of (irand river, and the 

 U. S. agree to grant said tract of land, by two letters jiateut, 

 viz : • 



1. The N. half, in quantity, to be granted to the mixed 

 band of the Senecas aud Shawnees of Ohio. 



2. The S. half, in quantity, to the Senecas from Sandusky 

 aforesaid. 



The whole of the foregoing land to be occupied in common so 

 long as the said tribes or bands shall <lesire the same. The 

 said patents shall be granted in fee simple; but the lands 

 shall not be ceded or sold without the consent of the U. S. 



The U. S. agree to possess the Cherokees, and to guarantee it to 

 them forever, of 7,000,000 acres of land, to be bounded as fol- 

 lows, viz : Beginniug at a point <in the old western territorial 

 line of Arkansas territory, beginning 25 miles N. from the 

 point where the territorial line crosses Arkansas river; 

 I thence running from said N. point S. on the said territorial 

 line to the jdace where said territorial line crosses the Verdi- 

 gris river; thence down said Verdigris river to the Arkansas 

 river; thence down said Arkansas to a point where a stone is 

 ])laced opposite to the E.or lower bank of Grand river at its 

 junction with the Arkansas; thence ruuuiug S. 44- W. Imile; 



