Indian Village Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place

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Indian Village Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place

The ground before the town, the peoples of the upland, the streams, and the whole story of Indian Village.

Origins

§ 18Indian Village Before the Town: The Ground Before the PlaceThe ground was ceded in 1821, surveyed, and sold — and then, for a century, it was simply farms. The cession that took this section, the peoples who held it before, and their removal are printed whole in the frame…4 entry pages § 19The Land at Indian VillageCeded in 1821, the ground entered the federal land system with the rest of the county: the county record carries the lands as coming into market in the spring of 1830, the first entries made 19 April 1830 through the…9 entry pages § 21The Native Nations of Indian VillageThree nations hold this valley's treaty record , and this fragment names them first as they name themselves. The Potawatomi are the Bodéwadmi (plural Bodéwadmik ), "those who tend the hearth-fire" of the Council of…6 entry pages § 01The Story of Indian VillageSpine — Indian Village, Indiana7 entry pages § 22The Name "Indian Village" in the RecordThe frame pass could carry the name no earlier than the 1990 census. This pass moves the first dated carrier back a generation — to the first edition of the federal topographic map of the town's own quadrangle — and…5 entry pages § 20Indian Village Land RecordsThe land fragment as banked carries the taking, the survey and the ground at the strength the frame pass could reach, and names the record systems that would carry them deeper: the federal land-office record for the…5 entry pages

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Source: Indian Village Origins: The Land, the Peoples and the Story of the Place, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/indian-village/topics/origins/

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