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TREATY WITH THE O'1‘TAWAS, ETC. 1836. 491 Mes-quawabuck, Waw-haw-que-ke-aw, Mess-Sett, N aush-waw-pi-tant, Muck-kose, Che-qua-sau-quah. C. Carter, Secretary. Edward McCartney, Enteprt. To the Indian names are subjcined marks. ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made and concluded at the city of Washington in the District q" M¤i·ch2e,1e26. Columbia, between Henry R. Schoolcraft, commissioner on the • ¤ I part of the United States, and the Ottawa and Chippewa na- May 27, 1636. tions of Indians, by their chiefs and delegates. Arvrrcnn Fmsr. The Ottawa and Chippewa nations of Indians cede Cessicn of land to the United States all the tract of country within the following bound- ‘° ‘h° U- S- aries: Beginning at the mouth of Grand river of Lake Michigan on the north bank thereof, and following up the same to the line called for, in the first article of the treaty of Chicago of the 29th of August 1821, A,,,,,’P_g18_ thence, in a direct line, to the head of Thunder-bay river, thence with the line established by the treaty of Saganaw of the 24th of September 1819, to the mouth of said river, thence northeast to the boundary line in Lake Huron between the United States and the British province of Upper Canada, thence northwestwardly, following the said line, as established by the commissioners acting under the treaty of Ghent, through the straits, and river St. Mary’s, to a point in Lake Superior north of the mouth of Gitchy Seebing, or Chocolate river, thence south to the mouth of said river and up its channel to the source thereotQ thence, in a direct line to the head of the Skonawba river of Green bay, thence down the south bank of said river to its mouth, thence, in a direct line, through the ship channel into Green bay, to the outer part thereof; thence south to a point in Lake Michigan west of the north cape, or entrance of Grand river, and thence east to the place of beginning, at the cape aforesaid, comprehending all the lands and islands, within these limits, not hereinafter reserved. Amicus Snooun. From the cession aforesaid the tribes reserve for _R¤¤¤¤’V¤6¤¤¤ their own use, to be held in common the following tracts, namely: One m °°mm°"‘ tract of fifty thousand acres to be located on Little Traverse bay: one tract of twenty thousand acres to be located on the north shore of Grand Traverse bay, one tract of seventy thousand acres to be located on, or, north of the Pieire Marquetta river, one tract of one thousand acres to be located by Chingassanoo,—or the Big Sail, on the Cheboigan. One tract of one thousand acres, to be located by Mujeekewis, on Thunderbay river. Anrrcnn Tnrrm. There shall also be reserved for the use of the Reservations Chippewas living north of the straits of Michilimackinac, the following M Ch’Pl’°w"° tracts, that is to say: Two tracts of three miles square each, on the north shores of the said straits, between Point-an-Barbe and Jlhlle Coguin river, including the fishing grounds in front of such reservations, to be located by a council of the chiefs. The Beaver islands of Lake Michigan for the use of the Beaver-island Indians. Round lisland, opposite Michilimackinac, as a place of encampment for the Indians, to be under the charge of the Indian department. The islands of the C/ienos, with a part of the adjacent north coast of Lake Huron, corre-