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Kaskaskia and Peoria (including Michigamea, Cahokia, and Tamaroa) at Castor Hill, Missouri (1832)

In 1832 the Kaskaskia and Peoria and allied bands gave up Illinois and Missouri claims for 150 sections on the Osage River.

Signed
October 27, 1832
Senate
Ratified
Land set aside for the nations
about 287,000 acres
The land in this treaty’s record. Open on the map

What happened

On October 27, 1832, commissioners William Clark, Frank J. Allen and Nathan Kouns signed a treaty at Castor Hill, St. Louis County, Missouri, for the United States. The other parties were the Kaskaskia and Peoria tribes. With the Michigamia, Cahokia and Tamarois bands they "formerly composed the Illinois nation of Indians." The Kaskaskia and the bands united with them were "desirous of uniting with the Peorias" on lands west of Missouri.

In Article 1 the Kaskaskia ceded the lands granted to them by the 1803 treaty of Vincennes. They kept about 350 acres near Kaskaskia for Ellen Decoigne, a chief's daughter. In Article 2 they gave up a $1,000 permanent annuity and a salt annuity. In Article 3 the Peoria ceded all their claims to land reserved or assigned to them in Illinois or Missouri.

In Article 4 the United States gave the combined tribes "one hundred and fifty sections of land forever, or as long as they live upon it as a tribe," on the waters of the Osage River. Article 5 set an annuity of $3,000 for ten years.

Article 6 records that the Peoria "assert in Council" that they never understood the fifth article of the 1818 Edwardsville treaty as ceding their claims to land in Missouri, where they had lived more than sixty years. They "demand an equivalent." The commissioners agreed to payments, carts, oxen, log houses and a year of provisions to quiet the claims. The Statutes at Large record a proclamation on February 12, 1833.

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. and now demand an equivalent for those claimsTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  2. one hundred and fifty sections of land forever, or as long as they live upon it as a tribeTribal Treaties Database (OSU)
  3. KaskaskiaStatutes at Large, vol. 7 (GovInfo)

Research notes. The treaty page does not describe coercion. The sources cited do not say what happened to the Osage River lands. Acreage: 150 sections, about 350 acres reserved at Kaskaskia.

What the treaty did to the land

About 287,000 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.

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. 1832

    This treaty

    About 287,000 acres set aside as a reservation for the Kaskaskia, Peoria and others

    In 1832 the Kaskaskia and Peoria and allied bands gave up Illinois and Missouri claims for 150 sections on the Osage River.

  2. 1832

    Land kept

    About 287,000 acres set aside as a reservation for the Kaskaskia, Peoria and others

    By Piankashaw and Wea at Castor Hill, Missouri (1832)

    area 326 area 328

  3. 1854

    Land lost

    About 287,000 acres ceded to the United States by the Kaskaskia, Peoria and others

    By Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea at Washington, DC (1854)

    area 326

  4. 1854

    Land record

    Land named in the record

    By Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea at Washington, DC (1854)

    area 328

  5. 1867

    Land lost

    Land ceded to the United States by the Kaskaskia, Peoria and others

    By Seneca; Mixed Seneca and Shawnee; Quapaw; Confederated Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, and Piankashaw; Miami; Ottawa; and Wyandot at Washington, DC (1867)

    area 328

Who is doing the work today

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-kaskaskia-etc-1832-0376reference work
    Oct. 27, 1832. | 7 Stat., 403. / scan: 376 TREATY WITH THE KASKASKIA, ETC,, 1832.

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