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No Potawatomi village on this ground was found in any source read. Not in the treaties of 1821, 1826, 1828, or 1832; not in the federal reserve catalogue compiled from the tract books; not in the county histories read first-hand for this build. No village reserve, village tract, or named village attaches to section 34, Township 38 North, Range 1 West, or to Olive Township. The named villages of the instruments are all elsewhere: Rum's Village and the Parc aux Vaches country on the St. Joseph in Michigan; Na-to-wa-se-pe, the Nottawaseppi reserve of the 1821 treaty, in Michigan; Pokagon's village in the Bertrand Township country of Michigan; Seek's village and Flatbelly's on the 1828 second cession in northeastern Indiana; Ashkum's village in Miami County; Metea's and Pierish's villages on the 1826 first tract in the northeast. The ground's Indian-title history is exactly two layers, both dug in the land section: tribal cession by the Treaty of 1826, and individual scholar quarter-sections selected on paper in the fall of 1829. What stood on the ground itself, the settler record shows at cabin size: in September 1834 the townsite held one cabin, "located where the Christian church now stands," belonging with the land to the Bourissau family — a household, not a village, and the distinction is the finding. Archaeology, at the sober size the record allows: no archaeological site on the town ground was reached in the record read, and none is printed; the settler for that test is the state's SHAARD record and the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology's files, and the prairie-and-marsh-edge setting of the township is stated in the land section without a site attached to it.