1832–1833: the Tippecanoe treaties and the removal treaty

1832–1833 — NEGATIVE as takings of this ground

Three treaties of October 1832 and the Treaty of Chicago of 1833 complete the instrument roll; none of them takes this ground, which was already ceded. The treaty of 20 October 1832 at Camp Tippecanoe (7 Stat. 378, Royce Area 177) cedes an Illinois tract — "Beginning at a point on Lake Michigan ten miles southward of the mouth of Chicago river; thence, in a direct line, to a point on the Kankakee river, ten miles above its mouth; thence, with said river and the Illinois river, to the mouth of Fox river" — confirmed as Illinois ground by the Claims Commission at 41 Ind. Cl. Comm. 399. The treaty of 26 October 1832 (7 Stat. 394, Royce Area 180) cedes the great northwestern Indiana polygon, and its first call is itself the proof for this ground: it begins on Lake Michigan at the state line and runs "to the intersection of the southern boundary of a cession made by the Pottawatimies, at the treaty of the Wabash, of eighteen hundred and twenty-six; thence east, to the north-west corner of the cession made by the treaty of St. Joseph's, in eighteen hundred and twenty-eight" — the 1832 polygon is bounded on the north by the 1826 cession's southern boundary, and the townsite lies north of that boundary, inside the earlier cession. Its band reserves stand in the Tippecanoe and Yellow River country, none in Olive Township. The treaty of 27 October 1832 (7 Stat. 399, Royce Area 181) is positive only as a general relinquishment — its first article cedes the chiefs' and warriors' "title and interest to lands in the States of Indiana and Illinois, and in the Territory of Michigan, south of Grand river" — a residuary release, not the operative taking of ground ceded six years before; its reserves, including the band reservation at Pokagon's village, stand elsewhere, as the tribes section prints. The Treaty of Chicago of 26 September 1833 (7 Stat. 431, Royce Area 187) cedes the United Nation's land "along the western shore of Lake Michigan" in Illinois and Wisconsin — not this ground — and its Supplementary Articles of 27 September 1833 cede the Michigan reservations, including the four-mile-square Notawaseppi reserve of the 1821 treaty (Royce Area 188), and set the three-year removal clock for the Indians on them: the removal treaty's work here is on the people, in the tribes section, not on this title.