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Potawatomi (Waukewa's Band) at Tippecanoe River, Indiana (1836)

In March 1836 a Potawatomi band led by Wau-ke-wa Che-cose's only son ceded four reserved sections and agreed to move west within two years.

Signed
March 29, 1836
Senate
Ratified
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What happened

On March 29, 1836, Abel C. Pepper, commissioner for the United States, signed a treaty on the Tippecanoe River in Indiana. The other party was the only son of Wau-ke-wa Che-cose, a Potawatomi chief (spelled Pottawatamy in the text), and his band. The atlas labels this "Waukewa's Band."

Article 1 has the chief and his band cede the four sections of land reserved for them by the second article of an earlier treaty with the Potawatomi. The treaty states no acreage. In Article 2 they agreed to yield peaceable possession within three months of signing. They also agreed to remove, within two years, to the country provided for the Potawatomi nation west of the Mississippi River.

The United States agreed to pay $2,560 in specie, meaning coin, at the first annuity payment after ratification, and to pay the necessary expenses of making the treaty. The Senate struck out Article 6, whose text the page does not show. The treaty was proclaimed on June 4, 1836. The treaty text does not describe how the negotiation went, and the sources used here do not say what became of the band.

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. agree to yield peaceable possession of said land within three months from this dateTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  2. remove to the country provided for the Pottawatamy nation west of the Mississippi river within two yearsTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  3. remove to the country provided for the Pottawatamy nation west of the Mississippi river within two yearsTreaty with the Potawatomi, 7 Stat. 498 (govinfo)

Research notes. Acreage not stated (four sections). The treaty text names the chief only as the "only son" of Wau-ke-wa Che-cose; the label "Waukewa's Band" comes from the atlas record. Article 6 was struck out by the Senate and is not shown.

What the treaty did to the land

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

    Land kept

    Land set aside as a reservation for the Potawatomi (band of Wau-ke-wa, Chekose's only son)

    By Potawatomi (St. Joseph, Cold Water, Wabash, and Elkhart Bands) at Tippecanoe River, Indiana (1832)

    area 208

  2. 1836

    This treaty

    Land ceded to the United States by the Potawatomi (band of Wau-ke-wa, Chekose's only son)

    In March 1836 a Potawatomi band led by Wau-ke-wa Che-cose's only son ceded four reserved sections and agreed to move west within two years.

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-potawatomi-1836-0457reference work
    Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 Mar. 29, 1836. | 7 Stat., 498.

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