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To 1826
Before any cession, title to this ground stood in the Potawatomi Tribe. The Indian Claims Commission, in the consolidated Potawatomi cases at 27 Ind. Cl. Comm. 187 (28 March 1972; Dockets 29-D, 29-E, 29-J and 29-K — not Docket 124, a label from a different line of cases), determined on remand that from 1795 through 1833 Potawatomi land was owned and ceded by a single landowning entity, the Potawatomi Tribe or Nation. Every instrument plotted below is therefore tested as a cession by that entity, and the Commission's own area-by-area attributions are carried beside the plot test: as the articles show, the Commission's mapping agrees with the treaty calls — the strip above the 1817 line at this longitude is an 1826 taking. The final award in that line of cases, at 37 Ind. Cl. Comm. 251 (1976), concerned Royce Area 117, the 1821 cession, and does not reassign this ground.