State
Illinois
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 20 cessions that lie at least partly in Illinois, from 1795 to 1833, under 16 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Potawatomi, Chippewa (Ojibwe), Kickapoo, Ottawa, Kaskaskia and 9 more.
The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise here, including Treaty of St. Louis 1804: cession signed by a delegation with no authority to sell.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
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Connections
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Contains 21
- Land kept by the United States in Illinois, 1795 (area 27)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 Delaware, Eel River and others in Illinois, ceded 1803 (area 47)1803
- Land of the Kaskaskia in Illinois, ceded 1803 (area 48)1803
- Land of the Sauk and Fox in Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin, ceded 1804 (area 50)1804
- Treaty of St. Louis 1804: cession signed by a delegation with no authority to sell1804suggested
- Land of the Piankishaw in Illinois, ceded 1805 (area 63)1805
- Land of the Delaware, Eel River Miami and others in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 73)1809
- Land of the Kickapoo and Wea in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 74)1809
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Illinois, ceded 1816 (area 78)1816
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa nations of the waters of the Illinois, Milwaukee, and Manitowoc rivers and others in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1829 (area 147)1816
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- Land of the Chippewa, Ottowa and others in Illinois, ceded 1816 (area 77)1816
- Land of the Cahokia, Kaskaskia and others in Illinois, ceded 1818 (area 96a)1818
- Land of the Potawatomi in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1818 (area 98)1818
- Land of the Kickapoo (of the Vermillion) in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1819 (area 110)1819
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Illinois, ceded 1829 (area 148)1829
- Land of the Winnebago in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1829 (area 149)1829
- Land of the Potawatomi (band of the Prairie and Kankakee) in Illinois, ceded 1832 (area 177)1832
- Land of the Winnebago in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1832 (area 174)1832
- Land of the Chippewa, Ottawa and others in Illinois and Wisconsin, ceded 1833 (area 187)1833
Sources
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