The reserves around, none on, this ground

1826–1848

Flatbelly's reservation — identified, and it is a Miami-named anchor. The 1828 treaty's second tract runs "to the northeast corner of Flatbelly's reservation." Flatbelly is Papakeechie (Papakeechia), a Miami chief: his reserve was 36 square miles near present Syracuse, in Kosciusko County, held 1828–1834, then returned to the national government and later owned by the Wabash & Erie Canal (Indiana Historical Bureau marker 43.1962.1). The marker stands about 36 miles east-southeast of the town point — the eastern anchor of the cession that missed this townsite is a Miami reserve, which is the whole of the Miami test's positive content below. Seek's village reservation stood at the head of the Eel River, in present Whitley County — about 59 miles southeast — anchoring the 1828 tract's southern line from a different river system entirely. The 1826 scholar quarter-sections at Carey Mission lay on the St. Joseph at Niles, Michigan, about 22 miles north-northeast — across the state line and a full township-tier set north; no scholar grant is placed in or near Liberty Township in any carrier reached. Menominee's reserve at Twin Lakes — 22 sections shared by Menominee and three other headmen under the 1832 treaty, at Myers Lake and Cook Lake about five miles southwest of Plymouth — stands about 15 miles south-southeast: the nearest reserve-era Native community to Liberty Township in the whole reached record, and still a county away. And a new near-reserve for this build — Benack's village, Marshall County. Osheakkebe, also known as Stephen Benack, an ogimaa (leader), held a village on the Tippecanoe River (Secs. 6, 7, 8, T32N R4E) from 1834 to 1848, secured by the 27 October 1832 treaty; the village "remained despite U.S. forced removal of Indians from Indiana in the 1830s and 1840s," U.S. surveyors mapped an "Ind. Vil." there in 1834, and Benack had moved off the land by July 1848 (IHB marker 50.2011.1). It stands roughly 20–24 miles southeast — a second "stayed" case in the near geography, distinct in mechanism from Pokagon's: Benack stayed on a personal treaty grant, not under a band provision, and his staying ended by 1848. The conflict in the geography prints whole: the Flatbelly identification (Papakeechie, Miami) sits against any casual reading of the 1828 instrument as a purely Potawatomi geography — the treaty is a Potawatomi treaty, and its boundary calls use a Miami chief's pre-existing reserve as a corner. Both facts print; neither is merged away.