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  NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Treaty of Saginaw
The Treaty of Detroit was a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Potawatomi Native American nations.
Removal of the Chippewas to lands west of the Mississippi, at least west of Lake Michigan, was one of the purposes of the treaty, in addition to the cession of the valuable body of land lying upon the Saginaw and its tributaries.
This treaty shall take effect, and be obligatory on the contracting parties, so soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Treaty-of-Saginaw   (771 words)

  
 Michigan--Treaty of November 17, 1807 (Royce #66)
According to the treaty of November 17, 1807, negotiated with the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi, a tract of land comprising roughly the southeast quarter of the lower peninsula of Michigan and a small section of Ohio north of the Maumee River was ceded to the United States.
A portion of this tract was ceded September 29, 1817 to the Catholic Church and to Detroit College by the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi tribes.
This particular band was specifically mentioned in the treaty of Greenville, Ohio, August 3, 1795 and the treaty of Detroit, November 17, 1807.
www.gbl.indiana.edu /Pot/PM66.html   (1351 words)

  
 Treaty of Saginaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Treaty of Saginaw in 1819 was made between Gen. Lewis Cass and Native American tribes of the Great Lakes region (principally the Ojibwe, but also the Ottawa and Potawatomi) in what is now the United States.
The line then ran directly to the head of the Thunder Bay River in south-central Montmorency County and then along the river to the mouth in Thunder Bay, near Alpena.
The treaty reserved several smaller tracts of land for Indian use within the ceded territory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Treaty_of_Saginaw   (224 words)

  
 Michigan: Treaty of September 29, 1817 (Royce #88)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Michigan: Treaty of September 29, 1817 (Royce #88)
The treaty of September 29, 1817 involved quite extensive land cessions in Ohio but we find that the Potawatomi, together with the Ottawa and Chippewa, at this time ceded but a small section of land whose boundaries are given as follows:
This particular tract, however, was ceded as one of the minor areas in the treaty of Greenville in 1795.
www.gbl.indiana.edu /Pot/PM88.html   (476 words)

  
 Ojibwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ojibwa allied themselves with the French in the French and Indian War, and with the British in the War of 1812.
In Canada, the cession of land by treaty or purchase was governed by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and subsequently most of the land in Upper Canada was ceded to the Crown.
Treaty of Washington (1836) - Ottawa and Chippewa
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ojibwe   (1202 words)

  
 Wood County, Ohio 1895 History
Accordingly, on July 11, 1805, a treaty, the sixth relating to Ohio,* was made at Ft. Industry (now Toledo), with the Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee and Pottawatamie tribes, for the purchase of the remainder of the Connecticut Reserve.
The treaty, while it did not directly affect it, was of great advantage to the Maumee Country, which, with some superior advantages along with its drawbacks, was being held back while other parts of the State were being settled; still these gradual advances of the lines of settlement gave hope for the future.
The title to this reserve was one of the conditions of that treaty, and the size of the reserve, and the tenacity with which Wayne insisted on having this block of land, shows the important views he had concerning the Maumee Rapids and vicinity.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Wood/WoodChapVII.htm   (2745 words)

  
 INDIANS OF MICHIGAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
By the terms of this treaty said lands were to be surveyed and sold by the United States in the same manner as other public lands, the proceeds to be applied for certain specific purposes defined in said treaty and the balance to be invested in public stocks for the benefit of said Indians.
By the treaty of Washington of March 28, 1836, with the Ottawa and Chippewa nations they reserve to themselves five separate tracts of land, containing a total of one hundred and fourty-two thousand acres, to be held by the two tribes in common.
By the treaty of 1932 made at the Tippecanoe river there is granted to each of seventy-six persons named a specified quantity of load amounting in all to eighty-four and a half sections or 54, 080 acres, and patents are to be issued for the same.
www.mifamilyhistory.org /bay/imcl.htm   (6116 words)

  
 Wood County, Ohio 1895 History
So much so, that at the treaty of Maumee, in 1817, she then being very old and wrinkled, and bent over with age, her hair perfectly white, no chief would sign the treaty until she had first consented, and made her mark, by touching her fingers to the pen.
When the treaty was agreed upon, the head chiefs and warriors sat round the inner circle, she had a place among them; the remaining Indians with the women and children forming a crowd outside.
Noah Reed, who came with Uncle Guy Nearing's family to Detroit in 18i9, says in his memoirs, that he was a passenger on the new steamboat from Black Rock; she left that port on the 18th day of August, and did not reach Detroit until the 11 5th day of September.
www.heritagepursuit.com /Wood/WoodChapXI.htm   (6843 words)

  
 detroitblog
It seems Detroiters view a ballot not as a choice among candidates but rather as a multiple-choice quiz in which you simply pick the names you've heard before, judging by the enthusiasm with which voters put almost all the incumbents among the top nine vote-getters.
And of course, Detroit wouldn't be Detroit without Jackie Currie, who once again was top vote-getter for city clerk, a victory she celebrated by losing some votes for a while overnight.
Pudge was the metaphor for Detroit – tough, wounded, yet scrapping his way to the finals, where he didn’t really belong and where nobody thought he’d be, and for a moment the improbable seemed possible, that he might actually win it all.
detroitblog.blogspot.com   (2371 words)

  
 Potawatomi Web ? Treaty with the Wyandot, etc., September 29, 1817   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The tracts of land herein granted to the chiefs, for the use of the Wyandot, Shawnese, Seneca, and Delaware Indians, and the reserve for the Ottawa Indians, shall not be liable to taxes of any kind so long as such land continues the property of the said Indians.
This treaty shall take effect, and be obligatory on the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate therof.
Schedule referred to in the foregoing treaty, and to be taken and considered as part thereof.
www.fcpotawatomi.com /history/treaties/t_1817.html   (898 words)

  
 Potawatomi Web ­ Treaty with the Ottawa, etc., August 29, 1821   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The section of land granted by the Treaty of St. Mary's, in 1818, to Peeresh or Perig, shall be granted to Jean B. Cicot, son of Pe-say-quot, sister of the said Peeresh, it having been so intended at the execution of the said Treaty.
And one mile square shall be selected, under the direction of the President, on the north side of the Grand River, and one mile square on the south side of the St. Joseph, and within the Indian lands not ceded, upon which the flsmiths and teachers employed for the said tribes, respectively, shall reside.
The stipulation contained in the treaty of Greenville, relative to the right of the Indians to hunt upon the land ceded while it continues the property of the United States, shall apply to this treaty.
www.fcpotawatomi.com /history/treaties/t_1821.html   (1065 words)

  
 Saginaw Treaty of 1819
The first mention of SAGINAW in an Indian treaty between the United States and the Indian tribes appears to have been in the "Treaty with the OTTOWAS, etc., 1807" made at Detroit in which "the United States...further stipulates to furnish the said Indians with two flsmiths, one to reside with the Chippewas at Saguina".
However, an agitation soon arose for a treaty, so in 1818 the government decided what it would lay claim to and formulated a new treaty which was to give to the whites a vast territory covering the most desirable portion of the unceded lands of Michigan.
The worst of it all is that not a single important treaty of the government, from the Delaware Treaty of 1778, to the last treaty previous to 1890 has been faithfully kept by its white signatories.
www.hometownvalue.com /saginawtreaty.htm   (3050 words)

  
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One such treaty, of particular importance in the formation of the University of Michigan, was negotiated and signed at Fort Meigs, Ohio in 1817.
Like most treaties between tribes and the Federal Government, as will be explored later, the Fort Meigs agreement resulted in a fraudulent cession of Indian land to the United States government.
By 1805 the European population of Michigan was approximately 4,000: 700 of whom resided in the capital town of Detroit (Peckham, 1994:2).
www.umich.edu /~aium/trauma.html   (800 words)

  
 descriptions of territory claimed by U.S. through treaty cessions
This treaty was never carried into effect, owing to the hostile attitude assumed by a large proportion of the Ohio tribes, and it was finally superseded by the treaty of Aug. 3, 1795, at Greenville.
This cession overlaps the trace ceded by the Chippewa by treaty of Sept. 24, 1819.
This cession overlaps the Chippewa cession by treaty of Sept. 24, 1819
www.maquah.net /Historical/Treaties/cession_details.html   (10219 words)

  
 Gladwin organized
Under the "Treaty of Saginaw", dated 1819, all lands in this region known as "The Region of the Saginaws" were ceded to the United States Government by the Indian Nations.
January 14, 1837, a treaty was made between the United States and the Chippewa nations, under terms of which the Chippewas ceded both 1819 reservations back to the government.
When this treaty had been signed, all present day Midland County along with parts of Roscommon, all of Clare, part of Gladwin, Isabella, Bay, Saginaw, Gratiot and Arenac Counties were territory of Midland.
realestategladwin.com /LocalInfo.html   (412 words)

  
 Cessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Bullets, rum, and treaties, hardly worth the paper their terms were written on, were used without compunction to rid Michigan of its Indians and open the land to the farmer, the road maker, and the lumberman.
The commissioners who negotiated the treaties may have intended to treat the Indians fairly, but, more often than not, their recommendations and promises were altered by a Congress less concerned with the needs of the aborigines than the demands of would-be settlers and land speculators.
Under the Treaty of Saginaw, signed in 1819, an immense tract in the northeastern sector of the Lower Peninsula was ceded.
www.geo.msu.edu /geo333/Indian_cessions.html   (1506 words)

  
 Treaty of Saginaw: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/treaty_of_saginaw   (712 words)

  
 VisitDetroit.com - Detroit History
Detroit wouldn't begin to shape into its current form until roughly three centuries ago.
Detroit was incorporated as a city in 1815 and spent the decades leading up to the Civil War as the final U.S. stop on the Underground Railroad.
At the start of the 21st century, metro Detroit is starting to reap the rewards of decades of work put into revitalization.
www.visitdetroit.com /visitorcenter/aboutdetroit/history   (401 words)

  
 Indians of Indiana
A second treaty was needed in 1806 to resolve this.
Tecumseh denounced the treaty, threatened the chiefs who signed with death, and promised territorial governor General William Henry Harrison the provisions would never be carried out.
The 1,000 Delaware in Indiana had no doubt what the outcome would be of a confrontation with the State of Indiana and, at the St. Mary's Treaty in October, 1818, ceded their Indiana lands and agreed to move west of the Mississippi.
www.brisray.com /th/thist2.htm   (4874 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (1990): Chapter Three: Treaty of Ghent ends war (11/11)
Harrison occupied Detroit and pushed into Canada, defeating the fleeing British and their Indian allies on the Thames River.
The war was brought to a close by the Treaty of Ghent, which provided for the cessation of hostilities, the restoration of conquests, and a commission to settle boundary disputes.
The dramatic victory Andrew Jackson won at New Orleans over a strong British force came after the peace treaty had been signed but before this was known in America.
odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/1990/ch3_p11.htm   (582 words)

  
 Mitsawokett--A 17th Century Native American Settlement in Delaware
On 1818 a treaty with the Delawares, the
This treaty shall take effect, and be obligatory y on the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof.
Schedule referred to in the foregoing treaty, and to be taken and redconsid as part thereof.
www.mitsawokett.com /WyandotTreaty1817.htm   (1095 words)

  
 Treaty of the Miami of Lake Erie - 1817   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Treaty of the Miami of Lake Erie - 1817
The tracts of land herein granted to the Chiefs, for the use of the Wyandot, Shawanese, Seneca's, and Delaware Indians, and the reserve for the Ottawa Indians, shall not be liable to taxes of any kind, so long as such land continues the property of the said Indians.
This treaty shall take effect, and be obligatory on the contracting parties, as soon as same shall have been ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice of the counsel thereof.
www.historynotebook.com /1817.htm   (1664 words)

  
 Clarke Historical Library Central Michigan University Native American Treaty Rights Detroit 1855
Three treaties were signed in Detroit in late July and early August 1855.
Treaty with the the Chippewa Indians of Saginaw, parties to the treaty of January 14, 1837, and that portion of the band of Chippewa Indians of Swan Creek and Black River, parties to the treaty of May 9, 1836, and now remaining in the State of Michigan.
Articles of agreement made and concluded at the city of Detroit, in the State if Michigan, the second day of August, 1855, between George W. Manypenny and Henry C. Gilbert, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chippewa Indians of Sault Ste.
clarke.cmich.edu /detroit1855.htm   (1615 words)

  
 Swan Creek Black River Confederated Ojibwa Tribes of Michigan Act
(5) The 1836 Treaty of Washington compelled the Tribe to further withdraw from the small tracts of land granted in southeastern lower Michigan by the 1807 Treaty of Detroit, in return for future annuity payments and land west of the Mississippi River.
(6) Pursuant to the 1855 Treaty of Detroit, members of the Tribe withdrew and relocated from their remaining lands in Lapeer, Macomb, Wayne, Washtenaw, St. Clair, and Oakland Counties in Michigan, to nonaboriginal, nonhistoric, reservation lands further north in Isabella County, Michigan, where tribal members were eligible for individual land allotments.
The intent to maintain separate tribal identities was reflected throughout the 1855 Treaty by references to the distinct tribes as separate political entities to the agreement.
www.theorator.com /bills107/hr939.html   (1679 words)

  
 Treaty With The Ottawa - 1831   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It is agreed that the said band of Ottoways of Blanchard's fork and Oquanoxa's village, shall receive, at their new residence, a fair proportion of the annuities due to their nation by former treaties, which shall be apportioned under the direction of the Secretary of War, according to their actual numbers.
The lands granted by this agreement and convention to the said band of Ottoways residing at Blanchard's fork and Oquanoxa's village shall not be sold nor ceded by them, except to the United States.
Whenever the deficiency of five hundred and eighty dollars, which accrued in the annuities of the Ottoways for 1830, shall be paid, the parties to this convention, residing on Blanchard's fork and Oquanoxa's village, shall receive their fair and equitable portion of the same, either at their present or intended residence.
www.firstpeople.us /fp-html-treaties/TreatyWithTheOttawaetc1831.html   (820 words)

  
 Buses, not bombs (Metro Times Detroit)
The Detroit Area Peace With Justice Network — a collaboration of more than 20 area organizations including Peace Action of Michigan — orchestrated “Buses instead of Bombs” to draw attention to the NPT review conference, held in May at the United Nations in New York.
The treaty, enacted in 1970, serves to curb the spread of nuclear weapons and generally attempts to keep the world safe from nuclear annihilation.
Not all of the 188 countries that signed the treaty have complied with its conditions, however.
www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=7596   (388 words)

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