A treaty was made at Cedar Point with the Menomonees, ceding lands west of Green Bay (estimated at four million acres) and a strip on the upper Wisconsin; another passage attributes the Green Bay cession to the Chippewa and Ottawa Indians.

The evidence

• “16. On the 3d of September, 1836, a treaty was made at Cedar Point with the Menomonees, by which lands lying west of Green bay, and a strip on the upper Wisconsin, were ceded to the United States — the quantity of land ceded being estimated at four millions of acres in the Green bay portion ; on the Wisconsin rivei, a strip three miles wide on each side of the river, running forty-eight miles north in a direct line, equivalent to 184,320 acres.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/04-wisconsin-railroads-commerce-health-statistics.md, PDF p. 213 / book p. 217

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

  

• “Treaty with the Menominee, 1836 Treaty with the Menominee, 1836 Sept. 3, 1836. | 7 Stat., 506. | Proclamation, Feb. 15, 1837. Articles of agreement made and concluded at Cedar Point, on Fox river, near Green bay, in the Territory of Wisconsin, this third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six between Henry Dodge, Governor of said Territory of Wisconsin, commissioner on the part of the United States, on the one part; and the chiefs and head men of the Menomonie nation of Indians, of the other part. ARTICLE FIRST. Lands ceded to the United States. The said Menomonie nation agree to cede to the United States, all of that tract or district of country included within the following boundaries, viz. Beginning at the mouth of Wolf river, and running up and along the same, to a point on the north branch of said river where it crosses the extreme north or rear line of the five hundred thousand acre tract heretofore granted to the New York”

  https://treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-menominee-1836-0463

  treaties.okstate.edu, https://treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-menominee-1836-0463

  Grade B: Found on an institutional web page

• “Treaty of the Cedars Historical Marker ◄ PREV. ◄ PREV. 100 ▲ LIST NEXT ► NEXT 100 ► Add Photo — Add Link — Add Commentary — Edit this page Near Little Chute in Outagamie County, Wisconsin — The American Midwest (Great Lakes) Treaty of the Cedars Photographed by Keith L, September 6, 2007 1. Treaty of the Cedars Marker Inscription. The Treaty of the Cedars was concluded on the Fox River near here September 3, 1836. Under the treaty the Menominee Indian nation ceded to the United States about 4,000,000 acres of land for $700,000 (about 17 cents per acre). The area now contains the cities of Marinette, Oconto, Appleton, Neenah, Menasha, Oshkosh, Wausau, Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point and many others. The six-day meeting ended in a spirit of mutual respect and fairness. Governor Dodge said, �I view it as a matter of first importance to do the Indians ample justice in all our treaty stipula�tions,� and Menominee Chief Oshkosh later affirmed, �We always thought much of Go”

  https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=2490

  hmdb.org, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=2490

  Grade B: Found on an institutional web page