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1821–1833, tested November 2026
Potawatomi (Bodéwadmi): POSITIVE, and the only positive. Every instrument that cedes, bounds, or reserves land touching this county's south treats with the Potawatomi; the taking instrument for the townsite is the Potawatomi Treaty of Tippecanoe, 26 October 1832; Chapman's township narrative names the Potawatomi, in bands, hunting in this vicinity in the settlement years. Strength: full. Miami (Myaamia): NEGATIVE for this ground, with the one anchor exception printed. No Miami cession, reserve, village, or named person is placed in Liberty Township in any carrier reached in any pass. The Miami presence in this ground's documents is exactly two removes away: Flatbelly's Miami reserve anchors the 1828 Potawatomi cession's line from Kosciusko County; and the county histories' loose phrase — Chapman's county chapter names the county's original inhabitants as "various tribes… more particularly the Miamis and Pottawatomies" — a county statement the township-level record does not carry down to Liberty Township. Verdict: Miami attribution for this township is an inherited county-level generalisation; at township strength the record is Potawatomi only. Chippewa / Ottawa (Ojibwe / Odawa): NEGATIVE for this ground — parties with the Potawatomi to the 1821 Treaty of Chicago, whose cession missed this ground on both limbs; no cession, reserve, village, or use statement for Liberty Township in any reached carrier. All other nations: no carrier reached names any other nation against this ground. The test is closed at the reached record, with the GLO field notes and the ICC record (gap G-BC-2, G-BC-3) named for any deeper word.