Land Cessions in Illinois:

Name: Treaty with the Piankashaw Tribe (a sub-tribe of the Miami Nation)

Date: December 30, 1805

Location and Extent:

[A]ll that tract of country (with the exception of the reservation hereinafter made) which lies between the Wabash and the tract ceded by the Kaskaskia tribe, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, and south of a line to be drawn from the north west corner of the Vincennes tract, north seventy eight degrees west, until it intersects the boundary line which has heretofore separated the lands of the Piankeshaws from the said tract ceded by the Kaskaskia tribe.

Modern Counties Affected:

Gallatin, White, Hamilton, Jefferson, Marion, Fayette, Shelby, Effingham, Cumberland, Jasper, Crawford, Lawrence, Richland, Edwards, Wayne, Clay

Compensation:

• $300 per year
• U.S. protection from other Native groups
• $1000 cash
• A reservation of two square miles (1280 acres)

Participants: "the United States of America and the Piankishaw tribe of Indians"

Commentary: