The treaties at this ground — anchor

The land fragment carries the plot whole; this article anchors it

One instrument takes the ground: the Treaty of Chicago, 29 August 1821 (7 Stat. 218, Royce Area 117), plotted in the land fragment — the point and all 36 grid cells returning 117, the southern margin some seven miles to the mapped 1817 line, the western margin the verdict's thin joint at about 1.9 miles. The treaty reserved nothing on the ground: its five Article 2 village tracts are all Michigan, and its Article 3 individual grants nearest the town stand at Mishawaka and the Kankakee portage. The reserve landscape around the town is a ring, not a presence: the 1821 Michigan village tracts and the consolidated 99-section reservation of the 1827 Treaty of St. Joseph (7 Stat. 305) to the north; the Elkhart River individual grants to the east; the Eel River reserves of the 1826 Miami treaty far southeast; the Tippecanoe reserves of 1832 far south (Aub-be-naub-bee's 36 sections in the Fulton County country; the Menominee band's 22 sections at Twin Lakes, some 26 miles south); and two small grants west and southwest — the Bertrand children at the Kankakee portage, La Gros adjoining the Cranberry in Portage Prairie. The Pokagon and Topenebee villages' tract of some 49 sections — "on St. Joseph river opposite the town of Niles, and extending to the line of the State of Indiana" — has its southern edge at the state line, about 2.8 miles north of the town point. The land fragment's negatives stand behind the anchor: 1818 (both instruments), 1826 (both), 1828 (both cessions) and 1832 each excluded from their own texts, and 1833 at pointer.