Reserves and the band that stayed

1826–1838

No reserve stood on this ground, so no band's removal or remaining runs through the townsite itself. The tract-level reserve tests are printed whole in the land section: the 1828 treaty's anchor reservations stand in the Elkhart and Wabash country; its individual grants could by its own terms be located only inside the 1828 tract, east of the meridian this ground lies west of; the 1826 scholar grants lay by Carey Mission on the St. Joseph. The wider geography of remaining and removal in this valley is two bands' stories, neither of them seated here. Pokagon's band, whose villages stood at Bertrand and on Silver Creek in Michigan, north of the state line, remained in the north after the 1833 Treaty of Chicago — the band that stayed, whose descendants are the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians — on ground that was never this township. Menominee's band held the nearest reserve to this town, at the Twin Lakes in present Marshall County, southeast of here; the band ceded that reserve in 1836 and was removed in the fall of 1838 on the march since named the Trail of Death, whose route ran south and west from the lakes, away from Liberty Township. For this ground the human sequence is therefore plain, and it prints without embroidery: ceded in 1832 with no reserve excepted, surveyed, and first settled by the incoming settlers in 1833. There is no removal event on the townsite in the record, because there was no reserved community on it to remove.