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Miami (Eel River or Thorntown Party) at Wyandot Village Near the Wabash, Indiana (1828)

In 1828 the Eel River Miami ceded a ten-mile-square reservation on Sugartree Creek and agreed to move to a five-mile reservation.

Signed
February 11, 1828
Senate
Ratified
Land given up
about 94,000 acres
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What happened

On February 11, 1828, John Tipton, commissioner for the United States, signed a treaty at the Wyandot village near the Wabash in Indiana. The other party was the Eel River or Thorntown party of the Miami.

In Article 1 the party ceded all their right and claim to a reservation "about ten miles square," at their village on Sugartree Creek. The Miami treaty at St. Mary's, Ohio, on October 6, 1818 had reserved it to them. They agreed not to burn or destroy the houses or fences, and to "remove to the five mile reservation on Eel River by the fifteenth day of October next."

The commissioner had delivered $2,000 in goods. If the Senate ratified the treaty, the United States would pay $8,000 more in goods, build twelve log houses, and clear and fence forty acres. It would also furnish a wagon, oxen, horses and $500 worth of provisions. If the treaty were not ratified, the party agreed to pay for the goods by deduction from its annuity for that year.

At the request of the Indians, the United States also agreed to pay Peter Langlois $1,000 in silver and $3,000 in goods for earlier provisions and goods. It appropriated $1,000 a year for five years to educate Miami youths. The Statutes at Large record a proclamation on May 7, 1828.

Summarized with AI assistance from 3 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.

  1. remove to the five mile reservation on Eel River by the fifteenth day of October nextTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  2. that said party agree to pay for the goods this day received, two thousand dollars, to be deducted from their annuity for this present yearTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  3. Eel RiverStatutes at Large, vol. 7 (GovInfo)

Research notes. The treaty describes the new reservation only as "the five mile reservation on Eel River"; its acreage is not given. The sources cited do not say how the move went.

What the treaty did to the land

About 94,000 acres given up. Each shape is a numbered area in the federal government’s 1899 record of land cessions.

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.

  1. 1818

    Land kept

    About 94,000 acres set aside as a reservation for the Eel River or Thorntown party of Miami Indians

    By Treaty of St. Mary's with the Miami, 1818

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  2. 1828

    This treaty

    About 94,000 acres ceded to the United States by the Eel River or Thorntown party of Miami Indians

    In 1828 the Eel River Miami ceded a ten-mile-square reservation on Sugartree Creek and agreed to move to a five-mile reservation.

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-miami-1828-0286reference work
    Feb. 11 1828. | 7 Stat., 309. / scan: 286 'fREATY WITH THE MIAMI, 1828.

Shapes are approximate and are not legal descriptions of land, title or jurisdiction.