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BOUNDARY POINTS IN OTHER PEOPLE'S TREATIES ARE NOT A PRESENCE
The Myaamia enter this township's paper record twice, both times at a distance, and the distance is the finding: the 1828 treaty calls plotted in The Land run their southern line to "the northeast corner of Flatbelly's reservation" and "the northwest corner of the reservation at Seek's village" — Flat Belly, Papakeechie, the Miami chief whose thirty-six-section reserve at Flat Belly's village stood near present Syracuse in Kosciusko County, and Seek's village "up Eel River, to Seek's village, near the head thereof," in the Eel River headwaters country far southeast. Those are Miami places used as survey furniture in a Potawatomi cession; they place no Miami town, camp or reserve on this ground, and this section prints them as calls, not as presence. At treaty strength the valley of the St. Joseph was Bodéwadmi country — the cessions that took this ground were made with the Potawatomi, in 1821, 1828 and 1832 — and no instrument, reserve or history reached for this build seats the Myaamia in Penn Township. The test is stated because the sister builds' frames ask it of every city; here its answer is short.