Once Upon a House

September 28, 1836

On the right bank of the Mississippi in Dubuque County, Wisconsin Territory, opposite Rock Island, Henry Dodge and chiefs of the confederated Sauk and Fox, including Keokuk (Kee-o-kuck) and Wapella, concluded a treaty ceding the 400-section reservation set apart in 1832. The tribes agreed to leave that land by November 1, 1836, and not to plant, fish, or hunt there afterward. Consideration included cash payments, debt payments, and horses.

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  • “Treaty with the Sauk and Foxes, 1836 Treaty with the Sauk and Foxes, 1836 Sept. 28, 1836. | 7 Stat., 517. | Proclamation, Feb. 27, 1837. Articles of a treaty made and entered into at the treaty ground on the right bank of the Mississippi river in the county of Debuque and Territory of Wisconsin opposite Rock island, on the twenty-eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, between Henry Dodge commissioner on the part of the United States, of the one part, and the confederated tribes of Sac and Fox Indians represented in general council by the undersigned chiefs headmen and warriors of the said tribes, of the other part. Land ceded to the United States. WHEREAS by the second article of the treaty made between the United States and the confederated tribes of Sac and Fox Indians on the twenty-first day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, a reservation of four hundred sections of land was made to the Sac and Fox Indians to b”

    https://treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-sauk-and-foxes-1836-0474

    treaties.okstate.edu, https://treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-sauk-and-foxes-1836-0474

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