Treaty of Fort Wayne (1803)
Type | Recognition of American ownership of the Vincennes Tract |
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Signed | June 7, 1803 |
Location | Fort Wayne, Indiana Territory |
Effective | December 26, 1803 |
Condition | Transfer of money and goods to natives; US to relinquish land claims in adjacent territory |
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Language | English |
The Treaty of Fort Wayne was a treaty between the United States and several groups of Native Americans. The treaty was signed on June 7, 1803 and proclaimed December 26, 1803. It more precisely defined the boundaries of the Vincennes tract ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Greenville, 1795.
Parties
Terms
The first article more precisely defined the boundaries of the Vincennes Tract surrounding
In the second article, the United States relinquished claims to any lands adjoining the tract defined in article one.[3]
Article 3 cedes to the United States a salt spring upon the Saline creek, which falls into the Ohio below the mouth of the Wabash, with a quantity of land surrounding it not exceeding 4 square miles (10 km2). The U.S. agreed to deliver to the Indians annually a quantity of salt not exceeding 150 US bushels (5.3 m3).[3]
Article 4 cedes to the United States the right of locating three tracts of land (of such size as may he agreed to by the Kickapoo, Eel River band of Miami, Wea, Piankeshaw, and Kaskaskia tribes), for the purposes of erecting houses of entertainment for the accommodation of travellers on the
Article 5 allowed for alterations to the boundary lines described in the first article if it is found that settlements of land made by citizens of the United States fall in the Indian country. It was agreed that a quantity of land equal in quantity to what may be thus taken shall be given to the said tribes either at the east or the west end of the tract.[3]
Notable among the Indian signatories were
- Meseekunnoghquoh (also known as Michikinikwa), or Little Turtle, for the Miamis
- Tuthinipee (also known as Topinabee), or He Sitting-quietly, for the Potawatomi
- Winnemac, or Catfish, for the Potawatomi
- Bukongehelasfor the Delawares
Subsequent treaties
The Eel River band of Miami, Wyandot, Piankishaw, Kaskaskia, and also the Kickapoo represented by the Eel River chiefs in a treaty of August 7, 1803 concurred in the cessions for houses of entertainment provided for Article 4 of this treaty.[4]
At two treaties concluded at Vincennes in August 1805, the Delawares and Piankishaw ceded claims to lands south of the Vincennes Tract.[5]
See also
Notes
Sources
- Kappler, Charles Joseph (1903). Indiana Affairs:Laws and Treaties by United States. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2009-02-23.
External links
- Treaty text Potowatomi Web
- Text of treaty of June 7, 1803 at Fort Wayne, Statutes at Large, vol. VII, p. 74–76, Library of Congress
- Text of treaty of August 7, 1803 at Vincennes, Statutes at Large, vol. VII, p. 77, Library of Congress
- Text of treaty of August 18, 1804 at Vincennes, Statutes at Large, vol. VII, p. 81–83, Library of Congress
- Text of treaty of August 27, 1804 at Vincennes, Statutes at Large, vol. VII, p. 83–84, Library of Congress