Wisconsin Territory
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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States.
Establishment
July 1836: The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836.
September 1836: U.S. treaty concluded at Cedar Point on Fox river (Wisconsin territory).
September 1836: U.S. treaty concluded with the Sauk and Fox.
Chronology
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1. Events
July 1837: U.S. treaty concluded at St. Peter's (Wisconsin territory) with the Chippewa.
September 1837: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Sioux.
October 1837: An agreement was reached in 1836 with the chiefs Mahaska and No Heart of the Ioway tribe and leaders of the combined Sac and Fox tribes in a ceremony at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas that was presided by William Clark, then the Superintendent of Indian Affairs and based in St. Louis. The Senate approved the treaty on February 15, 1837. On March 28, 1837, President Martin Van Buren issued a proclamation supporting the annexation. In October 1837, the Missouri General Assembly accepted the land and placed it all initially in the newly created Platte County
November 1837: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Winnebago.
January 1838: U.S. treaty concluded at Buffalo Creek (New York) with several tribes of New York.
July 1838: The Territory of Iowa was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1838, until December 28, 1846, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Iowa.
September 1839: U.S. treaty concluded at Stockbridge (Wisconsin) with the Sockbridge and Munsee.
October 1842: U.S. treaty concluded at La Pointe of Lake Superior (Wisconsin territory) with the Chippewa.
May 1848: On May 29, 1848, an eastern portion of the Wisconsin Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin.
May 1848: On May 29, 1848, an eastern portion of the Wisconsin Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. What remained of the Wisconsin territory became Unorganized Territory.
Disestablishment
May 1848: On May 29, 1848, an eastern portion of the Wisconsin Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin.
May 1848: On May 29, 1848, an eastern portion of the Wisconsin Territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin. What remained of the Wisconsin territory became Unorganized Territory.
Selected Sources
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 760
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 762
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 766
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 768
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 774
Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 776
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