Franklin Pierce, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting
Subtitle: whereas a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Detroit, in the state of Michigan, on the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between George W. Manypenny and Henry C. Gilbert, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chippewa Indians of Saginaw, parties to the treaty of January 14th, 1837, and that portion of the bands of Chippewa Indians of Swan Creek and Black River, parties to the treaty of May 9, 1836, and now remaining in the state of Michigan ...
Contributors: Manypenny, George Washington, 1809-1893; Gilbert, Henry C.; Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan; Swan Creek and Black River Bands of Chippewa Indians; United States. President (1853-1857 : Pierce); Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library); Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Ojibwa Indians; Treaties; Land tenure; Indian land transfers; Relocation; Indians of North America; Government relations
Other titles: Treaty between the United States and the Chippewa tribes of Indians; Treaties between the US and the Indians.; American Indian histories and cultures.
Work titles: Treaties, etc
Notes: Title from caption.

"Made at the city of Detroit, August 2, 1855."--Cover.

Ratified by the Senate Apr. 15, 1856; and signed by President Pierce June 21, 1856.

Edward E. Ayer Collection, Newberry Library

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