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  Encyclopedia: Treaty of Saginaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Treaty of Detroit was a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Potawatomi Native American nations.
When the Saginaw Treaty of 1819 was signed Michigan was still a territory (established by Congress in 1805).
Saginaw City is a defunct city in Saginaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Treaty-of-Saginaw   (690 words)

  
 The 1819 Saginaw Cession   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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".
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.geo.msu.edu /geo333/Saginaw-cession.html   (3041 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   (232 words)

  
 THE TREATY OF SAGINAW
This treaty was made at Greenville, in Ohio, then the head-quarters of the army, and was a general treaty of peace.
By this treaty of 1814 there was no Land cession; it is merely a treaty of peace, by which the United States agrees to give peace to the Indians, and the Indians, thereafter, agree to fight for the United States against Great Britain.
The principal orator of the treaty was Neome.
www.mifamilyhistory.org /bay/1819treaty.htm   (6138 words)

  
 Michigan Counties - Saginaw County   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1819 The Treaty of Saginaw was signed which gave most of the eastern half of the lower peninsula to the United States Government.
The Chippewa's refused to allow surveyors west of the Saginaw River, so a fort was put up on what today is the corner of Court and Hamilton streets in the city of Saginaw.
Saginaw County is also produces sugar beets, soybeans, navy beans, and winter wheat.
www.michiganweb.com /city/county/saginaw.html   (214 words)

  
 Saginaw, Michigan, Brownfields Redevelopment Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Saginaw is located in eastern mid-Michigan and is a major shipping center for farm products and sugar processing and a significant player in the auto industry.
Saginaw is located in eastern mid-Michigan and is rich in history.
Saginaw is also known for its architectural heritage, featuring several turn-of-the-century style churches, a unique Gothic-like water treatment plant and most prominently, the " Castle," Saginaw’s first post office, which is now a historical museum.
maven.gtri.gatech.edu /webinabox/saginaw.html   (281 words)

  
 Central Michigan University Clarke Historical Library Native American Treaty Rights U.S. v. Michigan
It is an Indian treaty case in which the State asks the court to abrogate the Indians' aboriginal rights which have survived for over 12,000 years and are valid to this day, and which were guaranteed to the Indians by the Treaty of Ghent and the Treaties of 1836 and 1855.
Because the language of the treaties is general, vague and ambiguous, the issues before this court involve not only the treaties themselves but also the history of their negotiation and the entire history of the Michigan Indians.
(Treaty of 1836, Article Ninth.) The American Fur Co. was a major creditor to the Indians of the area; it had a substantial interest in the form of the final treaty; it was in a position to have intimate knowledge of the treaty negotiations.
clarke.cmich.edu /nativeamericans/treatyrights/usvmich.htm   (20547 words)

  
 Cessions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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)

  
 Genesee County Road Commission: Maintaining safe, cost-efficient county road network in Michigan.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
To the east are Lapeer and Oakland counties, to the west Saginaw and Shiawassee, to the north Saginaw and Tuscola, to the south, Oakland and Livingston.
The territory within the present Genesee County except for a small parcel of land in the northwest corner, was ceded to the United States by the treaty of 1807.
The first road to enter Genesee County was a trail cut from Saginaw to Flint by detachments of the Third United States infantry in the winter of 1822-1823.
www.gcrc.org /about.html   (351 words)

  
 Welcome To The City Of Midland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Together, Saginaw, Midland and Bay City make up the area commonly referred to as the “Tri-Cities,” although Midland is considered a micropolitan, according to U.S. Census data.
Saginaw is the largest; Bay City is the smallest.
The thousand acres now known as the Chippewa Nature Center originally were within the 6,000 acres retained by the Chippewa under the Treaty of Saginaw in the year 1819.
www.midland-mi.org /midland/history.htm   (499 words)

  
 Welcome to Saginaw, Michigan!
Lewis Cass' treaty with the Indians secured the region for the U.S. in 1819 and Fort Saginaw was built in 1822.
Little recovered and, in 1850, began building East Saginaw across the river, incorporated as a village in 1855, and as a city in 1859; Saginaw was incorporated as a city in 1857.
Blackbird wrote in 1887 that "Saginaw is derived from the name O-saw-gees, who formerly lived there." The other main view holds that Saginaw means "outlet of a river" and that the Sauks were name Saukieuck, "people of the outlet," simply because they lived there instead of the place being named for them.
www.hometownvalue.com /saginaw.htm   (355 words)

  
 The History of Genesee, MI, Chapter III, The Tribal Reservation
In March, 1836, a treaty was made by the Untied States, on the one hand, and the Chippewa Nation and Ottawa nation on the other, by which cession of their lands was made.
The benefits of this treaty, however, were confined to the Chippewas of the upper peninsula and the region between the Grand river and the "Cheboigan." It was not intended that the affairs of the three bands above named should be involved in this treaty.
Among the provisions of this treaty, the Saginaw band ceded to the United States all the reservation on the Flint river, or the Pewonigowink reservation.
www.usgennet.org /usa/mi/county/lapeer/gen/ch3/res3.html   (1667 words)

  
 Treaty of Saginaw - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Treaty of Saginaw - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The 1819 Saginaw Cession and Treaty contains the text of the treaty and additional description adatped from the public domain 1919 book by Fred Dustin: "The Saginaw Treaty of 1819"
Treaty of Saginaw, External links and United States and Native American treaties.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Treaty_of_Saginaw   (218 words)

  
 News Radio 790 - The History of WSGW
WSGW has served the Saginaw Valley with news since the station went on the air in 1950.
Eventually the land was occupied by the Chippewa, with whom Governor Lewis Cass signed the Treaty of Saginaw in 1819.
This treaty ceded most of the eastern half of Michigan's lower peninsula to the United States Government.
www.wsgw.com /skin/graphic.php?sectionId=179&contentId=60252   (448 words)

  
 The History of Genesee, MI, Ch. 3, Treaty of Saginaw
A treaty a year seemed to have been the pace he set for himself, and so in 1819 he begun the preparations for the treaty with the Chippewas for the region about Saginaw bay.
The treaty of Springwells had formally forgiven them their transgressions in the war, but there was nothing of good will behind it and the power of the Americans had been demonstrated.
The testimony of Louis Campau, the trader, given at the trial of the Dewey-Campau case at Saginaw in1860, is worthy of preservation as the sworn account of the treaty in question, and as bearing upon the family of Ne-o-me and the Indians of Mus-cat-a-wing.
www.usgennet.org /usa/mi/county/lapeer/gen/ch3/saginaw2.html   (4057 words)

  
 Clarke Historical Library - Saginaw County
McGaugh, Maurice E. The Settlement of the Saginaw Basin.
Saginaw Club, Founded May 1889: The Story of Your Club and the Men Who Made it a Saginaw Tradition for Nearly a Century.
Saginaw Treaty Sesquicentennial, the 150th Anniversary of the Signing of the Treaty of Saginaw.
clarke.cmich.edu /localhistory/Saginaw.htm   (1423 words)

  
 City of Saginaw - Profiles & Reports - Trivia - History
Saginaw territory organized in 1824 and attached to Oakland County for judicial purposes.
Saginaw Township (including the entire county and adjacent land) was organized in 1830.
South Saginaw, separated from East Saginaw by Hoyt Park and Webber Avenue.
www.saginaw-mi.com /Profiles/Trivia/history.php   (602 words)

  
 Read about Treaty of Saginaw at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Treaty of Saginaw and learn about Treaty of Saginaw ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Treaty of Saginaw in 1819 was made between Gen.
Thunder Bay River in south-central Montmorency County and then along the river to the mouth in Thunder Bay, near Alpena.
The 1819 Saginaw Cession and Treaty (http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/Saginaw-cession.html) contains the text of the treaty and additional description adatped from the public domain 1919 book by Fred Dustin: "The Saginaw Treaty of 1819"
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Treaty_of_Saginaw   (205 words)

  
 Treaty With The Chippewa Of Saginaw etc - 1855
In view of the existing condition of the Indians aforesaid, and of their legal and equitable claims against the United States, it is agreed between the contracting parties as follows, viz:
This agreement shall be obligatory and binding on the contracting parties as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President and Senate of the United States.
In testimony whereof, the said George W. Manypenny and the said Henry C. Gilbert, commissioners as aforesaid, and the undersigned, chiefs and headmen of the Chippewas of Saginaw, and of Swan Creek and Black River, have hereto set their hands and seals at the city of Detroit, the day and year first above written.
www.firstpeople.us /FP-Html-Treaties/TreatyWithTheChippewaOfSaginawetc1855.html   (435 words)

  
 Saginaw County Michigan
The name Saginaw is not named for the Sauk's that were thought to inhabit the area.
Visit the Saginaw County Surname, Query and Researchers Index - to see the names submitted by those researching in Saginaw County thru Oct of 1998.
Saginaw County is bordered on the north by Midland and Bay Counties, on the south by Shiawassee and Genesee Counties, on the east by Tuscola County and on the west by Gratiot County.
www.usgennet.org /usa/mi/county/saginaw   (1674 words)

  
 Shiawassee Indians
For that reason, the treaty did not materially affect the Indian way of life and the reservations normally held no more Indians than previously inhabited the villages, temporary or permanent, around which the reservations were established.
The Indians arrived in Detroit and a treaty was signed January 14, 1837 in which the Indians ceded their reservations within Michigan, although they were allowed to occupy two reservations, one at A Gres and the other on the Rifle River, west of Saginaw Bay for another 5 years.
By later treaties of 1854 and 1855 the Indinas of Michigan became the first to give up their tribal lands for individual land holdings according to Gustavus E.E. Lindquist's book called The Red Man in the United States (1923).
www.shiawasseehistory.com /indian.html   (2762 words)

  
 Settlers....Pioneers
of Shiawassee County Michigan
The county is named for this principal river, thought to be an Indian word, the story goes that early settlers met a band of Indians and asked them where their camp was and they replied something that sounded like "shia-wah-see" meaning "down the river straight ahead".
Following the Treaty of Saginaw a land office was opened in Detroit.
Whitmore Knaggs was at the signing of that Treaty and served as deputy interpreter for the United States.
www.shiawasseehistory.com /pioneers.html   (1675 words)

  
 Pine River Legal Documents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1819, the Treaty of Saginaw gave the Chippewa Tribe rights to fish on the Pine River.
The Tribe lived by this treaty until the 1930's when the area began to become contaminated by the dumping of chemicals.
This treaty could play a major role in the on-going dispute over who is responsible for the Pine River clean-up.
www.newmedia.alma.edu:16080 /overview/timelines   (143 words)

  
 Treaty of Saginaw, with the Chippewas
Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Saginaw, in the Territory of Michigan, between the United States of America, by their commissioner, Lewis Cass, and the Chippewa Nation of Indians.
For the use of Kawkawiskou, or the Crow, a Chippewa chief, six hundred and forty acres of land, on the east side of the Saginaw River, at a place called Menitego, and to include, in the said six hundred and forty acres, the island opposite to the said place.
This treaty shall take effect, and be obligatory on the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof.
www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/saginaw.html   (737 words)

  
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It is understood that the reservation of a place of fishing and encampment, made under the treaty of St. Mary's of the 16th of June 1820, remains unaffected by this treaty.
The said Indians being desirous of making provision for their half-breed relatives, and the President having determined, that individual reservations shall not be granted, it is agreed, that in lieu thereof, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars shall be set apart as a fund for said half-breeds.
Expenses of this treaty to be paid by U.S. All expenses attending the journies of the Indians from, and to their homes, and their visit at the seat of Government, together with the expenses of the treaty, including a proper quantity of clothing to be given them, will be paid by the United States.
www.tribalresourcecenter.org /ccfolder/grandtraverse_treaties.htm   (2763 words)

  
 People of the Three Fires Native Genealogy
The said Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black River, for and in consideration of the conditions hereinafter specified, do hereby release to the United States the several townships of land reserved to said tribe by said treaty aforesaid, situate and being upon Saginaw Bay, in said State.
So soon as practicable after the ratification of this treaty, the persons who have heretofore made selections of lands within the townships upon Saginaw Bay, hereby relinquished, may proceed to make selections of lands upon the Isabella reservation in lieu of their selections aforesaid, and in like quantities.
It is hereby expressly understood that the eighth article of the treaty of August second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, shall in no wise be affected by the terms of this treaty.
www.rootsweb.com /~minatam/misc/treaties/chip-sag-treaty-1864.htm   (1008 words)

  
 Saginaw County Michigan
This treaty ceded most of the eastern half of Michigan's lower penninsula to the United States Government.
The real source of the name Saginaw is from the Iriquois word sag-en-a which means "to flow from".
Saginaw County is bordered on the north by Midland and Bay Counties, on the south by Shiawassee and Gennessee Counties, on the east by Tuscola County and on the west by Gratiot County.
www.usgennet.org /usa/mi/county/saginaw/Saginaw.html   (1839 words)

  
 History of Oceana County
In 1819, by the treaty of Saginaw, the ceded land was extended sixty miles west of what is now the principal meridian of the state survey, reaching into Kent County, and thence to Thunder Bay River, and along that river to Lake Huron; and in 1820 these lands were brought into market.
By the treaty of Chicago, in 1821, with the Ottawas, Ojibeways and Pottawatamies, the tract of Michigan lying west of the cessions of 1807 and 1819, and reaching from the southern boundary of the state to the Grand River, and its most northerly source, was secured to the United States.
By treaty at Grand Rapids, in 1835, and the establishment of a land office at Ionia, in 1836, the lands north of Grand River were brought in market in 1839.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/Acres/7361/7.htm   (4172 words)

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