INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES
Vol. IV, Laws (Compiled to March 4, 1927)
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1929.
Transcribed by Linda Craig
EXECUTIVE ORDERS RELATING TO INDIAN RESERVATIONS FROM JULY 1, 1912, TO NOVEMBER 23, 1927.
WISCONSIN.
ONEIDA.
It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section 5 of the act of February
8, 1887 (24 Stat. L., 388), that the trust period on the allotments of the Oneida Indians in Wisconsin, which trust
expires during the calendar year 1917, be, and is hereby, extended for a period of one year from the date of expiration,
with the exception of the following:
WOODROW WILSON.
THE WHITE HOUSE, 19 May, 1917.
It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section five of the act of February
8, 1887 (24 Stat., 388), that the trust period on the following allotments made to Indians on the Oneida Reservation
in Wisconsin, which trust expires June 12, 1918, be, and is hereby, extended for. 8, period of nine years from
said date:
WOODROW WILSON.
THE WHITE HOUSE, 4 May, 1918.
The following is from Chapter 3 of "An
Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin..." By Charles Richard Tuttle; Publ. 1875:
We may properly close this chapter with the following list of Indian treaties, all
of which have to do, either directly or indirectly, with the relinquishment of the territory now included within
the boundaries of the State of Wisconsin.
We are indebted to the Collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society for this list.
1804. Nov. 3, at St. Louis, between Gov. William H. Harrison, and the Sauks and Foxes, at which Southern Wisconsin
was purchased.
1816. May 18, at St. Louis, confirming that of Nov. 3, 1804, with a portion of the Winnebago tribe, residing on
the Wisconsin River.
1816. Aug. 24, at St. Louis, with Ottawas, Chippewas, and Pottawattomies residing on the Illinois and Milwaukee
Rivers & c. Lands relinquished to the Indians, except nine miles square, at Prairie du Chien.
1817. March 30, at St. Louis, with the Menomonees. A treaty of peace, friendship, &c.
1821.Tthe Oneida and Stockbridge Indians settled near Green Bay.
1822. Sept. 3, at Fort Armstrong, with the Sauk and Fox tribes.
1825, Aug. 1 and 19, at Prairie du Chien, with Sioux and Chippewas, Sauks and Foxes, Winnebagoes, Ottawas, Pottawattomies,
& c. Boundary between Sioux and Chippewas agreed upon also between the Chippewas, and between the Winnebagoes
and other tribes.
1826. Aug. 5, at Fond du Lac, with the Chippewas, who assent to the boundaries agreed upon at Prairie du Chien.
1827. Aug. 11, at Butte des Morts, with the Menomonees,. in which they relinquish their right to a tract of land
near Green Bay.
1828. at Green Bay. Purchase of the lead-mine region.
1829. July 29, at Prairie, with the Winnebagoes. Purchase of the lead-mine region confirmed.
1831. Feb. 8, at Washington, with the Menomonees, who ceded to the United States all their lands east of the Milwaukee
River, Lake Winnebago, and Green Bay.
1832. Oct. 27, with the Menomonees. Lands purchased for the New York Indians.
1833. Sept. 26, at Chicago. Lands south and west of the Milwaukee River purchased of the Chippewas, Pottawattomies,
and Ottawas.
1836. Sept. 3, at Green Bay, with the Menomonees. Lands purchased west of Green Bay, and a strip on the Upper Wisconsin
River.
1837. July 29, at Fort Snelling, by Gov. Dodge, with the Chippewas. Lands south of the divide between the waters
of Lake Superior and those of the Mississippi ceded to the government.
1837. Sept. 29, with the Sioux. Lands east of the Mississippi ceded to the government.
1837. Nov. 1, with the Winnebagoes, who ceded all their lands east of the Mississippi River to the government.
1842. Oct. 4, at La Pointe, with the Chippewas. Lands ceded, & c.
1848. Oct. 18, with the Menomonees, who ceded all their lands in Wisconsin.
1848. Nov. 24, with the Stockbridges; purchase of their reservation on the east shore of Lake Winnebago.
"An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin..." By Charles
Richard Tuttle; Publ. 1875;
Transcribed and donated by Andrea Stawski Pack.
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