Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 7.djvu/441

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TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWAS, ETC. 1933. 431 -l¤i¤¤» Wah·tcha-s' Big Kaw, Mon-to-ni-alngiai The Thief, Gra-da·nia, Wah-ro-ne-saw, Mock-shiga-tona, Rah-no-way-wah-ha-rah, WVah-nah-sha, Gra-tah-m-kah, Wosh-kah—money, Mah-skah·gah-hn, Cha-ah·gra, N an-cha·si-zay, To·he, A-sha-bah-hoo, 0-rah-kah-pe, Kah-he-ga,. Wah-a-ge-hi-m-gn-rah, Wah-ne-min-nah, O-hu-ah-che-gi·sug·a, Cha-wah-che·ra, Ish-kah·tap-a, Pa-che-ga-he, Meh-say-way. In presence of Edward A. Ellsworth, Sec. pro tem. Jno. Dougherty, Ind. Agt. Ward S. May, M. D. John Dunlop. John T. Irving, jr. J. D. Blanchard. Charlo Mobrien. Oloe, Interpreter. To the Indian nam: are mbjcined a mark and seal.

ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made at Chicago, in the State ¢y"1ZZinais,on the twenty-sixth day Sept. 26, 1833. of Septembenin the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and thirty-three, between George B. Porter, Thomas I -VZ Feb. 21, mas., Owen and William Weatherford, Commissioners on the part Sec Su Ie_ of the United States of the one part,and the United Nation of mentary lilie- Chqwpewa, Ottawa and Potawatamie Indians cg the other part, °l°’·» P°S*· *4*- being fully represented by the Chiefs and cad-men whose names are hereunto subscribed-which Treaty is in the following words, to wit: ARTICLE 1st.—The said United Nation of Chippewa, Ottowa, and Land, coded Potawatamie Indians, cede to the United States all their land, along the to U. S. western shore of Lake Michigan, and between this Lake and the land ceded to the United States by the Winnebago nation, at the treaty of Fort Armstrong made on the 15th September 1832-bounded on the Anto,p.370. north by the country lately ceded by the Menominees, and on the south by the country ceded at the treaty of Prairie du Chien made on the 29th Ants, p. 320. July 1829-supposed to contain about five millions of acres. Awrrcnn 2d-In part consideration of the above cession it is hereby Lands wggt of agreed, that the United States shall grant to the said United Nation of lhs_ Mississippi Indians to be held as other Indian lands are held which have lately been l’§;'§:g?a:"; assigned to emigrating Indians, a tract of country west of the Missis- i sippi river, to be assigned to them by the President of the United States —-to he not less in quantity than five millions of acres, and to be located as follows: beginning at the month of Boyer’s river on the east side of the Missouri river, thence down the said river to the mouth of Nandoway river,thence due east to the west line of the State of Missouri, thence along the said State line to the northwest corner of the State, thence east along the said State line to the point where it is iutersected by the western boundary line of the Sacs and Foxes-—thence north along the said line of the Sacs and Foxes, so far as that when a straight line shall be run therefrom to the mouth of Boyer’s river (the place of beginning) it shall include five millions of acres. And as it is the wish of the Government of the United States that the said nation of Indians