History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              TREATIES  WITH  ABORIGINAL  TRIBES. 177
telegraphy, had visited Green Bay and advised the Brothertowns, Stockbridges and Oneida to remove to the Fox river region, for there "You will never again be disturbed. The white man will never go there. He will never desire these lands. They are too far off." Led by Rev. Eleazer Williams, the Lost Dauphin, a delegation from the six nations, supported by the War Depart¬ ment, arrived in Detroit in July, 1820. Here they learned that Col. John Bowyer, Indian agent at Green Bay, had effected a treaty cession of part of the Menominee lands. They retraced their journey and, placing the subject before the New York dele¬ gation in Congress, caused the Senate to reject the treaty.
The next year another delegation of the different allied Indian tribes of New York repaired to Green Bay under the support of the War Department, where they arrived on the first steamboat to enter the harbor, "Walk in the Water," on August 5, 1821. Governor Lewis Cass had added to the party Mr. Charles C. Trowbridge, of the Indian Department. They found the agent at Green Bay had died the previous winter; but they proceeded to hold a council with the Menominee and Winnebago, which finally resulted in a treaty, August 8, 1821, making a cession to the New York Indians of a strip of land five miles wide crossing Pox river at Little Chute, thence northwest and southeast to the Limit of the claims of the Menominee. Five hundred dollars was paid at the signing of the treaty and $1,500 in goods the follow¬ ing year in equal amounts to the Winnebago and Menominee.
On their holding a new council with the delegation of the six nations and John Sergeant, Jr., commissioned by Governor Cass to act for the Indian Department, the Winnebago refused a larger concession, but the Menominee were finally induced to enter into a new treaty, extending their grant to the six nations to a right in common to the whole of their lands. This treaty was con¬ cluded September 23, 1822, and "this treaty, as well as that of the previous year, were approved by the President, and the New York Indians thereby recognized as joint owners with the Menominee of all their immense territory, comprising nearly half of the state of Wisconsin," says Gen. Albert G. Ellis. But Presi¬ dent Monroe in his approval March 13, 1823, of this last treaty approved only in part, allowing it to stand as to lands between Lake Michigan and Fox river, north to Sturgeon bay and south to the Little Chute purchase line. His approval cut out the New York Indians from participation in any right to lands of the territory covered by this county.    Three thousand dollars in