Miami and Pottawatomie Indian Treaty Collection.

$2,000.00

Item Number: 135497

Washington: Various Publishers, 1828-1826.

Rare collection of Congressional Reports the Miami and Pottawatomie Indian Treaties. Octavo, 7 reports bound in modern paper wrappers or disbound. The collection includes: Treaty with Eel River Indians. Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a Copy of a Treaty… with the Eel River or Thornton Party of Miami Indians. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828; Lands Granted to Indiana. Documents to Accompany Bill H.R. No. 99, to authorize the Legislature of the State of Indiana to sell and Convey Certain Tracts of Land Granted to Said State. Jan. 21, 1828. House of Reps. Doc. No. 71, 20th Congress 1st Session. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1828; Memorial of the Legislature of Indiana Praying that the title of the Miami Indians to large tracts of land in that State may be extinguished, &c. 1829; Indian Treaties. Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Copies of two Treaties with Indian Tribes. Jan. 21, 1829. House of Reps., Doc. No. 88, 20th Congress, 2d Session. Washington: 1829; Memorial of the General Assembly of Indiana, Praying that the Indian title to certain lands within that state be extinguished, and that all the Indians residing therein, be induced to emigrate Westward. March 4, 1830. 21st Congress, 1st Session; Memorial of the Legislature of Indiana, to obtain the extinguishment of the title of the Pottawatamie and Miami Indians to land in that State, and the removal of said Indians from that State. 24th Congress, 1st Session; The Committee on Indian Affairs, t which was referred the petition of Israel Johnson, of Cass county, Indiana, report;… House of Reps., No. 505, 30th Congress, 1st session; In Senate of the United States, May 4, 1836. Mr. White made the following Report: From the Committee on Indian Affairs, on the resolution relative to exchanging lands with the Pottawatomie Indians, &c. 224th Congress, 1st session. Report No. 348; Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to certain Pottawatomie Indians. Apr. 8, 1886. Senate Ex. Doc. No. 124, 49th Congress, 1st Session; Miami Indians, and the Rights of Settlers on Their lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Relative to the condition of the Miami Indians, and the rights of certain settlers upon the lands of said Indians. House of Reps. Ex. Doc. No. 199, 42d Congress, 3d Session. In very good condition. An exceptional collection documenting the United States Government’s systematic removal of the Miami and Pottawatomie tribes from their ancestral homelands.

Proclaimed on February 8, 1839, the Treaty with the Miami was made and concluded at the Forks of the Wabash in the State of Indiana, between the United States of America, by Commissioner Abel C. Pepper, and the Miami tribe of Indians. The Miami agreed to cede the remainder of tribal lands in their possession to the United States including 511,000 acres left of the Big Miami Reserve in exchange for $550,000, agreeing to vacate the area within five years to a 500,000 acre reservation in Kansas. The Treaty with the Miami, along with several other treaties between Indian tribes and the United States government during the first decades of the nineteenth century, marked a dramatic increase in calculated U.S. government efforts to strategically and forcibly remove the old Northwest Territory's American Indians from their ancestral homelands to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi River. The Indian Removal Act, the key law which authorized the removal of Native tribes, was signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830 and enforced by the Martin Van Buren administration. After the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1831, approximately 60,000 members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations (including thousands of their black slaves) were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands, with thousands dying during the Trail of Tears.