Ann Durkin Keating

And what we're going to see then in 1821 is, to some degree, it's this bait and switch.

It's bringing people together, not where they are asked to cede land, but somewhere else so that it's less incendiary, so that you're not going to find as much argument against it because it's being hosted at a spot that's

Chicago in 1821 was, by that point, it's a part of that corridor.

So it's got the Treaty of Greenville, the island of land at the mouth of the river, and now the corridor.

So Chicago itself then is under U.S.

control.

So it's a place to have these treaties.

And then you get 1829, there's fighting going further north.

So up with the Ho-Chunk and the Sauk.

and the Fox further north.

And 1829, you get even more land in this region is ceded to the U.S.

government.

You see those sessions just piling up.

Yeah, I mean, and Blackhawk's story is an important one.

So the Sauk have ceded their land going back to the first decade, 1803, so back in the very first years of the 19th century.

But since 1803, they were moved across the Mississippi River.

But the Sauk villages continue to return to the east side of the Mississippi River to farm every year.

So a treaty doesn't necessarily mean that the next year things change.

It sometimes takes a while.

And that was the case with Blackhawk.