Don Wildman

This is what you're referring to.

American soldiers, civilians.

There were nine women and 18 children there.

They're attacked and 52 of them are killed.

The rest are taken prisoner.

This is the kind of story that spreads real fast in American circles and becomes the defining event in how to deal with these tribes, you know.

And so there was no middle ground here at that point.

We're going in guns a-blazing at this moment in many ways.

This leads eventually to two treaties.

There are two Chicago treaties, they're called.

The first one, let's go through that.

They're both session treaties.

They're both about removing people from the land, which is a term I didn't even know before I started preparing for this.

Session treaties are all over the place.

It's basically how we do this, as we've already referred to.

Let's talk about the first Chicago treaty.

What year does that happen?

1821.

That first treaty is negotiated back in August, but is then proclaimed on March 25th.

It cedes all lands in the Michigan Territory south to the Grand River to the United States, with the exception of small reservations.