(pg. 41-42)
The treaty concluded with the Potawatomi on September 20, 1828 involved the cession of tracts of land both in Indiana and Michigan. At this point we shall be solely concerned with the tract in Indiana designed by Royce #146. In the original description of the tract two Indian reservations formed a portion of the boundary: (1) Flatbelly's reservation and (2) Seek's reservation. Both of these constituted Miami villages that were reserved from the general cession of Miami lands north of the Wabash.
Other Indian villages known to be within this tract include Metea's Village or Muuskwawasepectan, a Potawatomi village at the southern edge of the tract on the St. Joseph's Branch of the Maumee River and the village of Five Medals, Onoxa, or Wonongosdah who had a village situated on the Elkhart river, a tributary of the St. Joseph's river. This latter village was situated in a group of Potawatomi towns which were subject to a raid by Colonel Wells in 1812 on the orders of General Harrison. (Harrison, W.H., Messages and Letters. Ind. Hist. Coll., VIII, 76 1922).
It would appear then, that this region was once primarily occupied by the Potawatomi. That they had gradually come in and replaced the Miami who were established in the region at an earlier time and who had ceded their rights to the region at an earlier date and lived at the margins of the area in reserves that had been retained by them.