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528 TREATY WITH THE SAGANAWS. 1837. Sussetzms. UPN; ]llf"d”w:k‘;;t°";n d _ _ b Sync E es, Wahkon-Tun a , ort ev ig un er,

 dining Millie time, Wahmadee-tunkeh, ¤r B¤s Eagle,

Tunkah-munnee, or the Great Walker, ;i¤rclE¤eet;—rr;{a)h-Zghn§;a£¤¤¤ 0i<>¤<L Huh-wh-munnee, or the Walking Crier. Tggiczulgkipeegsappahi gr the Black To- Wahpaakootas. mnhnwk, Tab-san-ga, or the Cane, Marc-pee-wee-chas-tah, or Chief of the Wahmaadce-sappah, or Black Eagle, Clouds, Skushkahnah, or Moving Shadow, Tah-chunk-washtaa, or the Good Road, Ahppaa-hoh-tah, or the Gray Mana. Mah-zah-hoh-tah, or the Gray Iron, Patah-eu-hah, or He that holds the Five. Executed in presence of J. McClure, Lt. lst Infy. S. M. Plummer, Lt. lst Infy. J. N. Nicollet. Scott Campbell, U. S. Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. ARTICLES OF A TREATY J,,n_ 14, may Made and concluded at Detroit, in the State if Mclrigan,_ on the

 fourteenth day ry" January, in the year of our Lord eighteen

July 2, 1838. hundred and thirty-seven, between the United States of America by their commissioner, Henry R. Schoolcraft,and the Saganaw tribe of the Chippewa nation, by their chiefs and delegates, assembled in council. * Cessiononann ART. lst. The said tribe cede to the United States the following to U.S. tracts of land, lying within the boundaries of Michigan; namely; One tract of eight thousand acres, on the river An Sable. One tract of two thousand acres, on the Misho-zvusk or Rifle river. One tract of six thousand acres, on the north side of the river Kaw/cawling. One tract of five thousand seven hundred and sixty acres upon Flint river, including the site of Reaums village, and a place called Kis/zkawbawee. One tract of eight thousand acres on the head of the Cass (formerly Huron) river, at the village of Otusson. One island in the Saganaw bay, estimated at one thousand acres, being the island called Shaingwaukokaug, on which Zllukokoosh formerly lived. One tract of two thousand acres at Nababish, on the Saganaw river. One tract of one thousand acres, on the east side of the Sganaw river. One tract of six hundred and forty acres, at Great Bend, on Cass river. One tract of two thousand acres at the mouth of Point Augrais river. One tract of one thousand acres, on the Cass river at Menoguet’s village. One tract of ten thousand acres on the Shiawassee river at Ketchewaundauguminh or Big Lick. One tract of six thousand acres at the Little Forks, on the Tetabwasing river. One tract of six thousand acres at the Black- Birds’ town, on the Tetabwasing river. One tract of forty thousand acres, on the west side of the Saganaw river. The whole containing one hundred and two thousand four hundred acres, be the same more or less. Indians may ART. 2d. The said Indians shall have the right of living upon the live on certain tracts. at the river Augrais, and Mushowusk or Ride rivers, on the $3;;; f" H" west side of Saganaw bay, for the term of five years, during which time ° no white man shall be allowed to settle on said tracts, under a penalty

  • This treaty was amended by the treaty of December 20, 1837, post, 548.