page_title: Treaty of St. Mary's (1818)
section_title: Big Miami Reserve
hierarchical_section_title: Treaty of St. Mary's (1818) / The treaties / Big Miami Reserve
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of federal land grants to Indian individuals in northwest Ohio known as the Indian Land Grants
context_page_description: The Treaty of St. Mary's may refer to one of six treaties concluded in fall of 1818 between the United States and Indians of central Indiana regarding purchase of Indian land. The treaties were
  Treaty with the Wyandot, etc.
  Treaty with the Wyandot
  Treaty with the Potawatomi
  Treaty with the Wea
  Treaty with the Delaware
  Treaty with the Miami
  The main treaty was with the Miamis, who were the main tribe in Indiana. Unqualified references to the treaty usually refer to this one. The treaties acquired a substantial portion of the land area of the state of Indiana from the Miami, Delaware, Potawatomi, and others in exchange for cash, salt, sawmills, and other goods, effectively moving the northern boundary of the state from near the Ohio River to the Wabash River in the northwest and north. They also resulted in creation of Indian reservations and continued the process of Indian removals in Indiana begun by the Treaty of Greenville in 1795.
context_section_description: By the treaty with the Miami, the Miami ceded most of their land south of the Wabash River, except for some individual plots and a parcel in north central Indiana between the Eel River and the Salamonie River called the Big Miami Reserve. The Reserve contained about 760,000 acres (3,100 km²) and was the largest Indian reservation ever to exist within the state of Indiana. It encompassed all of present-day Howard County, and portions of seven surrounding counties: Wabash, Miami, Cass, Clinton, Tipton, Madison, and Grant. At its creation, the area was wilderness, and there were no colonial settlements between Terre Haute and Fort Wayne on the Wabash River.
  The reservation was short-lived. By 1840, via several additional treaties, the state effectively acquired the reservation and removed the Indians to west of the Mississippi River.
caption: Land grants in Ohio enumerated in Article 3 of this treaty
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