Michigan Land Changes Through the First Half of the 19th Century

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• Michigan, 1859
  A 1859 map of Michigan that shows the established boarders for Michigan that stay relatively the same up to the present time.
• Treaty of La Pointe
  A treaty between the United States and the Chippewa nation. Signed October 4, 1842, in La Point, Wisconsin by Robert Straut commissioner on the part of the United States and representatives of the Ojibwe Bands of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River. The Ojibwe ceded an extensive amount of land which included the western part of Michigan’s upper peninsula and parts of northern Wisconsin. The treaty promised the bands money, services, and school, Additionally the treaty allowed hunting and fishing rights on the ceded land.
• Treaty of Washington D.C.
  A treaty between the United States and the Ottawa and Chippewa nations. Signed March 28, 1836, in Washington D.C. by the Indian Commissioner for the United States Henry Schoolcraft and representatives from the tribes. The tribes ceded almost fourteen million acres of land which encompassed the northwestern lower peninsula and eastern part of the upper peninsulas in Michigan. The treaty established permanent reservations and gave the tribes money, services, and the right to fish and hunt. This is the largest amount of land that tribes have ever ceded in a treaty.
• Treaty of Chicago
  A treaty between the United States and the Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi nations. Signed August 29, 1821, in chicago, Illinois by territorial governor of Michigan Lewis Cass, US house representative Solomon Sibley and representatives of each tribe. The tribes ceded all lands in Michigan south of the grand river and land in Indiana and Illinois on the southern coast of lake Michigan. Almost four million acres of land was ceded to the US. Signed by Lewis Class, territorial governor of Michigan. The treaty established small reservation boundaries in return for annuities and resources.