Potawatomi (Comoza's Band) at Lake Maxeeniekuekee, Indiana (1834)
On 4 December 1834 Chief Comoza's Potawatomi band ceded two reserved Indiana sections for $400 in goods and a $400 annuity.
- Signed
- December 4, 1834
- Senate
- Ratified
What happened
What happened
On 4 December 1834, at a camp on Lake Maxeeniekuekee in Indiana, William Marshall, commissioner for the United States, made a short treaty with Comoza, a chief of the Potawatomi (spelled Potawattimie in the text), and his band.
In Article 1 the chief and his band ceded to the United States the two sections of land reserved for them by the second article of the treaty made with the Pottawattimie Indians on the Tippecanoe River on 26 October 1832. The treaty itself gives no acreage.
In Article 2 they agreed to yield peaceable possession of those sections within three years from the date of ratification of that 1832 treaty.
In Article 3 the United States agreed to pay the chief and his band four hundred dollars in goods at the signing, and an annuity of four hundred dollars for one year. The text acknowledges receipt of the goods.
Article 4 made the treaty binding once the President and Senate ratified it. The page lists a proclamation on 16 March 1835.
The text does not say where the band went or why it agreed to cede.
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What the sources say, and how this was checked
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The above named chief and his band hereby cede to the United States, the two sections of land reserved for them
Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Comoza's band), Tribal Treaties Databaseyield peaceable possession of said sections within three years from the date of the ratification
Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Comoza's band), Tribal Treaties Databasethe sum of four hundred dollars in goods at the signing of this treaty, and an annuity of four hundred dollars for one year
Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Comoza's band), Tribal Treaties DatabaseCom-o-za, a Chief of the Potawattimie tribe of Indians and his band
Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 (Comoza's band), Tribal Treaties Database
Research notes. The treaty states no reasons.
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.
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:
- Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Oklahoma
- Forest County Potawatomi Community, Wisconsin
- Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi
- Hannahville Indian Community, Michigan
- Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi, Michigan
- Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Michigan and Indiana
- Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
- Anishinaabe
Working with these nations
- Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) Nation government Ojibwe treaty rights in ceded territories, natural resource stewardship, manoomin, and a Land Conservancy program… Give on their site Website
- Honor the Earth Native-led Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice Give on their site Website
- Native Land Conservancy (Massachusetts) Native-led Native-led land conservation Give on their site Website
- White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) Native-led Recover the original White Earth reservation land base Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
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Sources
Sources
- treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-potawatomi-1834-0428reference work
Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1834 Dec. 4, 1834. | 7 Stat., 467.
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