Winnebago Treaty documents: Finding Aid mssWinnebago
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Title: Winnebago Treaty documents
Identifier/Call Number: mssWinnebago
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(1 oversize folder and 1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1829-1884
Abstract: Third treaty of Prairie Du Chien between the United States and the Winnebago tribe.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item]. Winnebago Treaty documents, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Irene Nora Sang, June 2018.
From the collection of the donor's grandfather, Philip D. Sang (1902-1975), a corporate executive and collector. After his
death, his widow, Elsie Olin Sang, sold many of his manuscripts and archival collections. This is most likely the same document
that in 1925 was offered for purchase to the Chicago Historical Society by Walter C. Wiman, a New York book dealer who had
purchased it "during a recent trip to the West" (Chicago Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 3, June 1925, p. 21).
First item is the Third treaty of Prairie Du Chien between the United States and the Winnebago tribe, concluded August 1,
1829. It is a single sheet of vellum measuring 21" x 37". The Winnebago Tribe ceded land to the United States in Illinois
and Wisconsin in exchange for payments of $18,000 per year for a period of 30 years, as well as $30,000 in goods (1 time),
and 3,000 pounds of tobacco and 50 barrels of salt to be delivered annually (for 30 years). It was signed by John McNeil,
Pierre Menard, and Caleb Atwater for the United States; it was also signed by more than forty Winnebago individuals (all signing
with their mark), and more than thirty Indian agents and officers of the United States Army, including then Lieutenant Colonel
Zachary Taylor. All signatures appear on the verso, along with a small wax seal. Accompanied with a volume titled "Personnel
of the Winnebago (o-chun-gra-Large Fish) Treaty of 1829." The manuscript, bound in deerskin and completed after 1884, contains
biographies of the Winnebago and American signatories and attesters of the Third Treaty of Prairie Du Chien and an account
of the "friendly council" between "Nau-Kaw" Winnebago Chief, in company with fifteen other Chiefs and Warriors of that Nation
and President John Quincy Adams, on December 2, 1828.
Processed by Brooke M. Black, October 2022.
Published in Treaties between the United States and the Indian tribes, Volume 7 (C.C. Little, 1848), p. 323-325.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Winnebago Indians -- Government relations
Winnebago Indians -- Treaties
Treaties -- United States -- 19th century
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850
Folder Oversize 1
Third treaty of Prairie Du Chien 1892 August 1
Box 1
Personnel of the Winnebago (o-chun-gra-Large Fish) Treaty of 1829 after 1884