Potawatomi at Mission Upon the St. Joseph, Michigan Territory (1828)

What happened

On September 20, 1828, Lewis Cass and Pierre Menard signed a treaty for the United States at the Missionary Establishments on the St. Joseph River of Lake Michigan, in the Territory of Michigan. The other party was the Potowatami tribe.

The tribe ceded two tracts. The first began at the mouth of the St. Joseph River. It ran up the river to a point half way between La-vache-qui-pisse and Macousin village, then to the 19th mile tree on Indiana's northern boundary, west to Lake Michigan, and along the shore back to the start. The second began on the line run in 1817 due east from the southern end of Lake Michigan. It ran south ten miles, then to Flatbelly's reservation and the reservation at Seek's village, and along the Indiana-Ohio line.

In return, the United States agreed to an added permanent annuity of $2,000 and an added annuity of $1,000 for twenty years. It agreed to give $30,000 in goods, plus $10,000 in goods and $5,000 in specie in 1829. It would spend $7,500 on clearing and fencing land, houses, animals, farm tools and labourers.

Each year it would deliver tobacco, iron and steel, and apply $1,000 to education for as long as Congress thought it useful. It would also support the blacksmith promised in the treaty of Chicago permanently. The Statutes at Large record a proclamation on January 7, 1829. The treaty does not state the acreage.

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