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Potawatomi (Naswawkee's and Quashquaw's Bands) at Indian Agency, Indiana (1836)

In April 1836 the Potawatomi bands of Nas-waw-kee and Quash-quaw ceded three reserved sections for $1,920 and agreed to move west.

Signed
April 22, 1836
Senate
Ratified
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What happened

On April 22, 1836, Abel C. Pepper, commissioner for the United States, signed a treaty at the Indian agency in Indiana. The other parties were Nas-waw-kee and Quash-quaw, chiefs and head men of the Potawatomi (spelled Patawattimie in the text), and their bands.

In Article 1 they ceded three 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. In Article 2 the United States agreed to pay nineteen hundred and twenty dollars, or $1,920, at the first annuity payment after ratification. Article 5 has it pay the necessary expenses of the treaty.

In Article 3 the bands agreed to give possession of the three sections and to remove to the country west of the Mississippi River provided by the United States for the Potawatomi nation, within two years of the signing date. The Senate struck out Article 4, and the page does not show what it said. The treaty was proclaimed on May 25, 1836. The treaty text does not describe how the negotiation went, and the sources used here do not say what happened to the bands 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. agree to give possession of the aforesaid three sections of land, and remove to the country west of the Mississippi riverTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  2. nineteen hundred and twenty dollars at the first payment of annuity after the ratification of this treatyTreaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 (OSU Tribal Treaties Database)
  3. give possession of the aforesaid three sections of landTreaty with the Potawatomi, 7 Stat. 501 (govinfo)

Research notes. Acreage not stated (three sections). Article 4 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 (bands of Nas-waw-kee and Quash-quaw)

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

    area 210

  2. 1836

    This treaty

    Land ceded to the United States by the Potawatomi (bands of Nas-waw-kee and Quash-quaw)

    In April 1836 the Potawatomi bands of Nas-waw-kee and Quash-quaw ceded three reserved sections for $1,920 and agreed to move west.

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-potawatomi-1836-0459reference work
    Treaty with the Potawatomi, 1836 Apr. 22, 1836. | 7 Stat., 501.

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