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LAND TREATY OF 1848 31 



land ceded in the 1st article. The United States further agree, to cause the traits 

 reserved in the 2nd article, to be surveyed as soon as practicable 



There are several other aiticles to this treaty, but they are unim- 

 portant and are therefore omitted. The treaty was rati lied by the 

 Senate and promulgated on May 17, 183S, and by it the possessions of 

 the Six Nations in Wisconsin were reduced to the present reservation 

 of the Oneida on Duck creek, near Green bay, containing - about CI, 000 

 acres. 



By a treaty made October 18, 1848, between the United States and 

 the Menommi Indians, the latter agreed to cede, sell, and relinquish to 

 the United States "all their lauds in the State of Wisconsin, wherever 

 situated." For this they were to receive certain lands ceded to the 

 United States by the Ojibwa Indians of the Mississippi and Lake 

 Superior in the treaty of August 2, 1847, as well as some other lands 

 ceded (and not yet assigned) to the Winnebago, laud which was guar- 

 anteed to comprise not less than 600,000 acres. There was also a money 

 consideration. This treaty was ratified January 23, 1849. Another 

 treaty supplemental to this was made May 12, 1854, because of the 

 desire of the Menomini to remain in the state of Wisconsin, and their 

 special unwillingness to remove to the Ojibwa country west of Missis 

 sippi river which had been assigned them. Consequently, all lands 

 which had been granted to them by the treaty of 1848 were relin- 

 quished, and in consideration thereof the United States gave them 

 "for a home, to be held as Indian lands are held, that tract of country 

 lying upon the Wolf river in the State of Wisconsin, commencing at 

 the southwest corner of township 28 north, of range 16 east, of the 

 fourth principal meridian, running" west twenty-four miles, thence north 

 eighteen miles, thence east twenty-four miles, thence south eighteen 

 miles, to the place of beginning, the same being townships 28, 29, and 

 30, of ranges 13,14, 15, and 16, according to the public surveys." This 

 treaty was assented to by Osh'kosh and Kesheua, and was proclaimed 

 August 2, 1854. 



On February 11, 1856, another treaty was made by which the 

 Menomini ceded to the United States a tract of land, not exceeding- 

 two townships in extent, and selected from the western part of their 

 reservation, for the purpose of giving a reservation to the Stockbridge 

 and Munseo Indians. This treaty was proclaimed April 24, 1856. 



PRESENT LOCATION 



Under the treaties with the United States, the Oneida, the Stock- 

 bridge and Munsee, and the Menomini have each their respective 

 reservations. The Oneida, numbering over 1,200, have a reservation of 

 60,800 acres near Green bay ; the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians, num- 

 bering about 250, occupy a reservation southwest of the Menoimui, 

 containing 60,SO0 acres, while the Menomini are located on a reserva- 

 tion of ten townships, equal in round numbers to 360 square miles or 



1 Coll. HiBt. Soc. Wisconsin for 1855, vol. ii, 1856, p. 447. 



