Wea at St. Mary's, Ohio (1818)
The Wea ceded all their claimed lands in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois except one Wabash reservation, for a $3,000 annuity in silver.
- Signed
- October 2, 1818
- Senate
- Ratified
- Land set aside for the nations
- about 24,000 acres
What happened
What happened
On October 2, 1818, Jonathan Jennings, Lewis Cass and Benjamin Parke signed articles with the Wea tribe at St. Mary's, Ohio.
In Article 1 the Wea agreed "to cede to the United State all the lands claimed and owned by the said tribe, within the limits of the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois." In Article 2 they reserved a tract on the Wabash beginning at the mouth of Raccoon Creek, seven miles along the existing boundary line, to be held "as Indian reservations are usually held." Article 3 promised one section of land each to Christmas Dageny and Mary Shields, children of a sister of the Wea chief Jacco. They could not convey it without the President's consent.
In Article 4 the Wea sanctioned the Kickapoo cession made in the second article of the Kickapoo treaty of December 9, 1809. In Article 5 the United States agreed to pay $1,850 a year, added to a former annuity of $1,150, a total of $3,000 a year in silver, paid on the reservation.
A Myaamia Center blog says the Wea treaty was one of four linked negotiations at St. Mary's in autumn 1818, with the Delaware, Potawatomi and Miami.
Summarized with AI assistance from 4 sources and checked against their words; not yet reviewed by historians or by the nations. Report an error
What the sources say, and how this was checked
Well supported by the sources below.
all the lands claimed and owned by the said tribe, within the limits of the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois
Treaty with the Wea, 1818 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)to be holden by the said tribe as Indian reservations are usually held
Treaty with the Wea, 1818 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)making a sum total of three thousand dollars
Treaty with the Wea, 1818 (Oklahoma State University Tribal Treaties Database)four interwoven negotiations took place at St. Mary's in western Ohio over the course of several weeks in early autumn of 1818
The Lost Treaty of Fort Meigs (Myaamia Center, Miami University)
Research notes. Acreage is not stated. The text does not describe the Wea council. The Myaamia Center blog is used only to place this treaty among the linked St. Mary's negotiations.
What the treaty did to the land
About 24,000 acres recognized, kept or set aside for the nations. Each shape is a numbered area in the federal government’s 1899 record of land cessions.
earlier terms confirmedabout 70,000 acres
Land of the Kickapoo and Wea in Illinois and Indiana, ceded 1809 (area 74)
Ceded by the Kickapoo at Vincennes in December 1809; the Kickapoo acknowledged the cession in 1816, and the Wea approved it in the October 1818 treaty.
set aside as a reservationabout 24,000 acres
Land of the Wea in Indiana, ceded 1820 (area 114)
Kept by the Wea as a 7-mile tract on the Wabash in the October 1818 treaty, then ceded to the United States in August 1820.
What happened next
Everything the record holds about this land and this treaty, in order: what earlier agreements said, what this one did, and what the United States, the courts and the nations did afterwards.
- 1809
Land lost
About 70,000 acres ceded to the United States by the Kickapoo and Wea
By Kickapoo at Vincennes, Indiana Territory (1809)
- 1816
Land record
Earlier terms confirmed for the land of the Kickapoo and Wea
By Wea and Kickapoo at Fort Harrison, Indiana Territory (1816)
- 1818
This treaty
Earlier terms confirmed for the land of the Kickapoo and Wea. About 24,000 acres set aside as a reservation for the Wea
The Wea ceded all their claimed lands in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois except one Wabash reservation, for a $3,000 annuity in silver.
- 1820
Land lost
About 24,000 acres ceded to the United States by the Wea
By Wea at Vincennes, Indiana (1820)
Who is doing the work today
The nations connected to this treaty come first, then groups returning land and defending treaty rights. Support goes directly to them.
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
Native legal and land defense, nationally
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Sources
Sources
- treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-wea-1818-0169reference work
Oct. 2, 1818. | 7 Stat., 186. / scan: 169
Shapes are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land, title or jurisdiction.