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The First Treaty of Prairie du Chien was signed by William Clark and Lewis Cass for the United States and representatives of the Sioux, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Ioway, Winnebago, and Anishinaabeg (Chippewa and the Council of Three Fires of Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi) on August 19, 1825, proclaimed on February 6, 1826, and codified as 7 Stat. 272.
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In 1825 and 1827, the treaties of Prairie du Chien [5] and Butte des Morts [6] answered boundary questions. None of the early treaties addressed hunting and fishing rights. [7] In 1831, the tribe entered into the Treaty of Washington, [8] which ceded about 3,000,000 acres (1,200,000 ha) to the federal government. These two treaties reserved ...
[11] [12] [13] When the Senate modified the treaty, he interpreted for the second one, in 1832. [14] Prickett later worked for Colonel George Boyd, the U.S. Indian Agent at Green Bay, Wisconsin as an interpreter. [1] [9] He was said to have married a Chippewa and later a Menominee. [1] He also worked as a fur trapper.
Through the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and the Treaty of Mendota, the Mdewakanton and Wahpekute bands of the Lower Sioux ceded territory of nearly 24,000,000 acres (97,000 km 2) of land. The US paid the Dakota an annuity the equivalent of 7.5 cents an acre and charged settlers $1.25 an acre.
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