The extinguishment sequence for the reserves, dated step by step

26 October 1832 – 23 September 1836 · Kappler texts; Royce schedule

No reserve ever stood on the townsite — the land file proves that — but the reserves around this ground were created and then bought back in a dated sequence, and the sequence is the checklist's missing article. Step one is creation: the Treaty of Tippecanoe of 26 October 1832 reserved tracts by acreage for named bands, among them twenty-two sections for the bands of Menominee, Notawkah, Muckkahtahmoah and Pepinawah at Twin Lakes, in present Marshall County, the reserve the land-records file places in Township 33 North, Ranges 1 and 2 East, some thirteen miles south of the townsite. Step two is the first buy-back: at a camp near Yellow River on 5 August 1836 (7 Stat. 505, proclaimed 18 February 1837), Pepinawah, Notawkah and Mackahtahmoah ceded those same twenty-two sections to the United States for 14,080 dollars in specie, and agreed to remove west of the Mississippi within two years. Step three: on 20 September 1836 a further ten sections reserved in 1832 were ceded by Toissa's band. Step four: on 23 September 1836 at Chippewaynaung the Potawatomi of the Wabash ceded every remaining 1832 reservation named in that instrument — Kinkrash four sections, Chechawkose ten, Ashkum and Weesionas sixteen, Wesaw four, Mota four, Minoquet four, forty-two sections in all — at one dollar an acre in specie. The pattern is therefore whole: reserves created in a block in 1832 were extinguished band by band across seven weeks of 1836, and the two-year removal clauses in those same instruments are the paper origin of the 1838 column. The townsite's own title needed no step in this sequence, because no step ever touched it; the sequence is printed here at county-region strength, from the treaty texts themselves.