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Potawatomi (Aubbeenaubee's [Aubbanaubba's] Band) at Tippecanoe River, Indiana (1836)

In April 1836 Aub-ba-naub-ba's Potawatomi band ceded 36 reserved sections for $23,040 and agreed to move west within two years.

Signed
April 11, 1836
Senate
Ratified
Land given up
about 23,000 acres
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What happened

On April 11, 1836, Abel C. Pepper, commissioner for the United States, signed a treaty at a camp on the Tippecanoe River in Indiana. The other parties were Pau-koo-shuck, the oldest son of Aub-ba-naub-ba, and the head men of Aub-ba-naub-ba's band of Potawatomi (spelled Potawattimie in the text).

In Article 1 they ceded to the United States the thirty-six sections of land reserved for them by the second article of the October 26, 1832 treaty with the Potawatomi on the Tippecanoe River. The treaty states no acreage. The United States agreed in Article 2 to pay $23,040 in specie, meaning coin: one half at the first annuity payment after ratification and the other half at the next.

In Article 3, Pau-koo-shuck and his band agreed to remove to the country west of the Mississippi River provided for the Potawatomi nation by the United States, within two years. The Senate struck out Article 4, whose text the page does not show. The treaty was proclaimed on May 25, 1836. The treaty text does not say how the negotiation went, and the sources used here do not say what happened to the band afterward.

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. the sum of twenty-three thousand and forty dollars in specie, one half at the first payment of annuityTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  2. agree to remove to the country west of the Mississippi river, provided for the Potawattimie nation by the United States within two yearsTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  3. twenty-three thousandTreaty with the Potawatomi, 7 Stat. 499 (govinfo)

Research notes. Acreage is not stated (36 sections). Article 4 was struck out by the Senate and is not shown.

What the treaty did to the land

About 23,000 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. 1832

    Land kept

    About 23,000 acres set aside as a reservation for the Potawatomi (Aub-ba-naub-ba's bad, by Pau-koo-shuck, his oldest son)

    By Potawatomi (Wabash and Elkhart Bands) at Tippecanoe River, Indiana (1832)

    area 209

  2. 1836

    This treaty

    About 23,000 acres ceded to the United States by the Potawatomi (Aub-ba-naub-ba's bad, by Pau-koo-shuck, his oldest son)

    In April 1836 Aub-ba-naub-ba's Potawatomi band ceded 36 reserved sections for $23,040 and agreed to move west within two years.

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-potawatomi-1836-0457areference work
    Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 Apr. 11, 1836 | 7 Stat., 499.

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