Treaty of Saginaw

The Treaty of Saginaw in 1819 between Lewis Cass, Governor of Michigan Territory, and the chiefs John Okemos, Wosso and other American Native American tribes of the Great Lakes (mainly the Anishinabe, but also the Ottawa and Potawatomi ) in what is now the United States form, completed. The Indians ceded a large tract of land (more than six million acres or 24,000 km ²) in the middle part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

The southern border ran a few miles northeast of Jackson west to the north east Kalamazoo. From then on it went straight to the top Thunder Bay River in the south -central part of the Montmorency County and then along the river to the mouth in the Thunder Bay near Alpena. From there we went to the international border between the United States and the British Province of Upper Canada and then south to the boundary line, which was created by the Treaty of Detroit in 1807. This was from the shore of Lake Huron in the northeast Sanilac County to the south-west to a point a few miles northeast of Lansing and then due south to the starting point.

The contract also provided some smaller tracts of land within the ceded territory back for the natives.