Sold – Franklin Pierce Makes Official a Treaty With the Chippawa Indians
In it, the Indians Ceded Land to the United States.
The Chippawas were one of the largest Indian tribes in the United States, whose range was along both shores of Lake Huron and Superior, extending across North Dakota and up into Canada on the west and Lake Erie on the east. The main body of the tribe lived in the region...
The Chippawas were one of the largest Indian tribes in the United States, whose range was along both shores of Lake Huron and Superior, extending across North Dakota and up into Canada on the west and Lake Erie on the east. The main body of the tribe lived in the region surrounding what is now Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Starting as far back as 1795, the Chippawas came under increasing pressure from the United States and gradually began ceding their lands. By 1855 it had gotten so bad that they were ceding land right in the midst of their Sault main camp.
On August 2, 1855, the U.S. concluded a treaty with them that, according to “Indian Land Cessions in the United States 1784 to 1894”, ceded land “within the village limits of Sault Ste. Marie.” The treaty was proclaimed on April 24, 1856. Partly printed, partly manuscript Document Signed as President, Washington, April 24, 1856, in which President Franklin Pierce orders that the Secretary of State affix the seal of the United States to that very treaty – “a Treaty with the Chippawa Indians of Sault Ste. Marie…” This is the first presidential document effectuating a treaty with the Indians that we have ever carried.
Eventually the Chippawas had to cede vast stretches of their land and were restricted to small reservations in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.
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