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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



IKTII.A.NX. 18 



SCHEDXJLE OF IIs^^3I^v:^^ 



1840 



Nov. 28 



1843 



Mar. 17 



May 20 



Oct. 4 



IVherc or hon 

 concluded 



lieference 



Forks of the 

 Wabash, iu 

 State of In- 

 diaua. 



Upper S;in- 

 (1 11 8 k y, 

 Crawford 

 count V, 

 Ohio. 



Buftalo Crc(ac 

 New York. 



La Poiiite of 

 Lake Siipe- 

 rior,iu Wis- 

 cousiu ter- 

 ritoiy. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 582. 



Stat. L., 

 vn, 607. 



Stat. L., 

 VII, 586. 



Stat. L., 

 Ml, 591. 



Dt'scr'qjtiuii of cession or reset 



Wyandot . 



It is hereby stipulated that the Miami tribe of Indians shall 

 remove to the country assigned them AV. of the Mississippi 

 within five years from tbis date. And the U. S. stii>ulates 

 to set apart and assign to the Miamies for their occupancy 

 W. of the Mississippi a tract of country Viounded on the E. 

 by the state of Missouri, on the N. by the country of the 

 Weas and Kaskaskias, on the W. by the Pottawatomies of 

 Indiana, and on the S. by the land assigned to the New York 

 Indians, estimated to contain 500,000 acres. 



The Wyandott nation of Indians cede to the U. S. all that 

 tract of laud situate in the county of Crawford and state of 

 Ohio coniuiouly known as the residue of the large reserve, 

 being all of their remaining lands iu the state of Ohio and 

 containing 109,141 acres more or less. 



The said nation also cede to the U. 8. all their right to the 

 Wyaudott reserve on both sides of the river Huron, iu the 

 state of Michigan, containing 4,996 acres, and being all the 

 remaining lands claimed or set apart for them in the state 

 of Michigan. 



In consideration of the foregoing cessions the U. S. grant to 

 the Wyandott nation a tract of land W. of the Jlississippi 

 river, to contain 148,000 acres, and to be located upon any 

 lauds owned by the U. S. now set apart or that may iu future 

 be Set apart fiu- Indian use and not already assigned to any 

 other tribe or natiou. 



The chiefs of the Wyandott natiou hereby agree to remove 

 their whole people to the W. of the Mississippi river. 



There shall be reserved from sale and forever devoted to public 

 use 2 acres of ground as near as can be in a sfjuare form, to 

 include the stone meetinghouse and burying ground near 

 to and N. of Upper Sandusky; 1 acre to include the bury- 

 ing ground on the bank near the council house at Upper 

 Sandusky, .and one-half acre to include the burying ground 

 on the farm of Silas Armstrong, which several lots of ground 

 shall ever remain open and free to all persons for the purpose 

 of interment and houses of worship and ibr no other purposes 

 whatever. 



Thomas L. Ogdeu and Josej)h Fellows agree that the Seneca ^ 

 nation (notwithstanding tlie provisions of the treaty of .Ian. 

 15, 1(^38), sliall ;iud may continue in the occupation of the 

 whole of the two tracts of laud called the Cattaraugus and 

 Allegany reservations with the same right and title pos- 

 sessed by them before said treaty of Jan. 15, l^i^)8, saving 

 and reserving to the said Ogdeu and Fellows the right of 

 preemption and all other right and title which they then 

 had to said tracts of laud. 



The .Seneca nation iu view of the foregoing and other consider- 

 ations, grant and coniirm to said Ogdeu and Fellows the 

 whole of the two tracts of land commonly called the Buftalo 

 Creek and the Tonnewanda reservations, and all the right 

 and interest therein of said nation. 



Chippewa of The Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake Superior 

 the Missis- cede to the U. S. all the country within the following 

 boundaries, viz: Beginning at the mouth of Chocolate river 

 of Lake Superior; thence northwardly across said lake to 

 intersect the boundary line between the V. S. and the Prov- 

 ince of Canada; thence up said Lake Supei'ior to the mouth 

 of the St Louis or Fond du Lac river (including all the 

 islands in said lake); thence up said river to the Ameri- 

 can Fur ('om|iauy's trading post at the snutliwardly bend 

 thereof about 22 miles from its mouth; thence S. to intersect 

 the line of the treaty of July 29, 1837, with the Chippewas 

 of the Mississippi; thence along said line to its sontheast- 

 wardly extremity near the Plover portage on the Wisconsin 

 river; thence northeastwardly along the boundary line 

 between the Chippewas and Menonionees, to its eastern ter- 

 mination (established by the treaty held with the Chippewas, 



sippi and 

 Lake Supe- 

 rior. 



