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Eel River · eel river · Eel River band of MyaamiakiEel River
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- Great Lakes
In the record
The United States made 6 treaties and agreements that name Eel River as a party, from Treaty of Greenville, 1795 to Miami (Eel River or Thorntown Party) at Wyandot Village Near the Wabash, Indiana (1828).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 23 cessions of land from Eel River between 1795 and 1828: about 26 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 20 of them came through treaties made under documented pressure. The largest was Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 11), about 19 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Greenville, 1795.
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Eel River: Greenville 1795 and Fort Wayne 1809: encroachment, then cession under pressure.
Today, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Other names in English
- Eel River band of MyaamiakiEnglish/Myaamia
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement2 million
- Treaty under documented pressure24 million
- Removal treaty90 thousand
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
23 cessions. Follow Eel River through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Connections
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Land recorded in this nation’s name 23, as named in the 1899 record
- Land kept by the United States in Illinois, 1795 (area 27)1795
- Land kept by the United States in Indiana, 1795 (area 25)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1795 (area 26)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Illinois, ceded 1795 (area 24)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana and Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 11)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana, ceded 1795 (area 16)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Indiana, ceded 1795 (area 17)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1795 (area 21)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1795 (area 22)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Michigan, ceded 1795 (area 23)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 12)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 13)1795
Show all 23
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 14)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 15)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 18)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 19)1795
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1795 (area 20)1795
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River and others in Illinois, ceded 1803 (area 47)1803
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River and others in Indiana, ceded 1805 (area 56)1805
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 73)1809
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others in Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 71)1809
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others in Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 72)1809
- Land of the Eel River or Thorntown party of Miami Indians in Indiana, ceded 1828 (area 142)1818
Party to 6
- Treaty of Greenville, 17951795
- Eel River, Wyandot, Piankashaw, Kaskaskia, and Kickapoo at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (1803)1803
- Treaty of Fort Wayne with the Delaware, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel River, Wea, Kickapoo, Piankashaw, Kaskaskia, 18031803
- Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel River, and Wea at Grouseland near Vincennes, Indiana (1805)1805
- Treaty of Fort Wayne (1809), Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Eel River1809
- Miami (Eel River or Thorntown Party) at Wyandot Village Near the Wabash, Indiana (1828)1828
Named in 1
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- aacimotaatiiyankwi.org/2021/10/26/eel-river-bandunclassified
The relationship between the Eel River band of Myaamiaki and the Miami Tribe had been contentious for decades.
Research notes
Period band name as printed by NARA.
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