The 1855 Treaty of Washington may refer to any of the four treaties signed between the United States

United States

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 and various Native American

Native Americans in the United States

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 governments.

Treaty with the Wyandot

Treaty of Washington also known as the Treaty with the Wyandot was a treaty conducted in on January 31, 1855, in Washington, DC between the United States and the Wyandot. The treaty was ratified on February 20, 1855, and proclaimed by the President on March 1, 1855.

Treaty with the Chippewa

Treaty of Washington also known as the Treaty with the Chippewa was a treaty conducted in on February 22, 1855, in Washington, DC between the United States and the Pillager Chippewas and the Mississippi Chippewas. The treaty was ratified on March 3, 1855, and proclaimed by the President on April 7, 1855.

In this treaty, the two Ojibwe groups ceded a large tract of land covering northwest Minnesota, excluding the northwest-most corner of Minnesota, retained their usufruct rights upon the land, and had nine small Indian Reservations established for the said groups:

• Pillager Chippewas
  • Cass Lake
  • Leech Lake
  • Lake Winnibigoshish
• Mississippi Chippewa
  • Gull Lake
  • Mille Lacs Lake
  • Pokegama Lake
  • Rabbit Lake
  • Rice Lake
  • Sandy Lake

Of these reservations, Rice Lake Indian Reservation was never established. Gull Lake, Pokegama Lake and Rabbit Lake Indian Reservations were extinguished. Later, the three Pillager Chippewa Reservations were consolidated to form the Greater Leech Lake Indian Reservation

Leech Lake Indian Reservation

The Leech Lake Indian Reservation or Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag in the Ojibwe language, is an Native American reservation located in the north-central Minnesota counties of Cass, Itasca, Beltrami, and Hubbard. It is the land-base for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe...

.

Treaty with the Winnebago

Treaty of Washington also known as the Treaty with the Winnebago was a treaty conducted in on February 27, 1855, in Washington, DC between the United States and the Ho-chunk (Winnnebago)

Ho-Chunk

The Ho-Chunk, also known as Winnebago, are a tribe of Native Americans, native to what is now Wisconsin and Illinois. There are two federally recognized Ho-Chunk tribes, the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska....

. The treaty was ratified on March 3, 1855, and proclaimed by the President on March 23, 1855. This treaty ceded the lands promised in the Treaty of Washington (1846) to the Ho-chunks for an Indian Reservation

Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs...

 in central Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

 and acquired from the Ojibwe through the Treaty of Fond du Lac (1847).

Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw

Treaty of Washington also known as the Treaty with the Choctaw and Chickasaw was a treaty conducted in on June 22, 1855, in Washington, DC between the United States, the Choctaw

Choctaw

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s and the Chickasaw

Chickasaw

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s. The treaty was ratified on February 21, 1856, and proclaimed by the President on March 4, 1856.

External links

• Text of the Wyandot Treaty
• Text of the Chippewa Treaty
  • Two northern Ojibwe bands say it's their turn on treaty rights—by Tom Robertson, Minnesota Public Radio
    Minnesota Public Radio
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    , April 21, 2010
• Text of the Winnebago Treaty
• Text of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Treaty