Treaty of La Pointe

The Treaty of La Pointe may refer to either of two treaties made and signed in La Pointe, Wisconsin between the United States and the Ojibwe (Chippewa) Native American peoples. In addition, the Isle Royale Agreement, an adhesion to the first Treaty of La Pointe, was made at La Pointe.

1842 Treaty of La Pointe

The first treaty of La Pointe was signed Robert Stuart for the United States and representatives of the Ojibwe of Lake Superior and the Mississippi on October 4, 1842 and proclaimed on March 23, 1843. This treaty ceded lands now parts of Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula Michigan. The signatory tribes retain hunting, fishing and gathering right on for this region.

However, the news of the signing of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty on August 9, 1842, did not reach the diplomatic corp of either party, officially ending the boundary dispute between Great Britain and the United States, on what now is the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. Consequently the Grand Portage Band was not invited to join the signing of this treaty. In 1844, the United States and Grand Portage Band signed the Isle Royale Agreement as an adhesion to this treaty.

ignatories

The Ojibwe treaty signatories were:

Notes

External links

* [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/chi0542.htm Text of 1842 treaty]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=7tYRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22 Summary of the 1844 agreement]
* [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/chi0648.htm Text of the 1854 treaty]