Note 916 — Chapter XV · THE VANISHING OF THE RED MAN
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See, e.g., his letters to the Secretary of War in Wisconsin Historical Collections, XI, 351-55; also his letters to Captain Heald, January 2 and April 10, 1813, supra, notes 613 and 632.
[917] See, e.g., the Treaty of Portage des Sioux, July 2, 1815, with the Illinois River Pottawatomies. Article I provides that "every injury or act of hostility by one or either of the contracting parties against the other shall be mutually forgiven and forgot." About a dozen treaties concluded at this time with the various tribes contain this same provision American State Papers, Indian Affairs, II, 2 ff.
[918] Treaty with the Wyandots and other tribes concluded at St. Mary's, September 17, 1818; treaty with the Delawares at the same place, October 3, 1818; treaty with the Miamis October 6, 1818; treaty with the Pottawatomies at Chicago in 1821.
[919] For the treaty see U.S. Statutes at Large, VII, 317-19. For the schedule of sums granted to individuals see ibid., 603-4.