(pg. 42-44)
The Cession of October 26, 1832 concluded with the Potawatomi on Tippecanoe river is indicated on the map of Indiana as Royce #180. It consists of a large tract of land in the northwestern portion of the state. At the time the cession was made, the area was primarily occupied by the Potawatomi who reserved a series of smaller tracts for the use of the bands remaining in the area. These included: (1) for the band of Aub-be-naub-bae, 36 sections, to include his village; (2) for the bands of Man-o-mi-nee, No-taw-kah, Muck-kah-tah-mo-way, and Pee-pin-oh-wah, 22 sections (3) for the bands O-k-aw-wause, Kee-waw-nay, and Nee-bosh, 8 sections; ;(4) for the band of Com-s-za, 2 sections; (5) for the band of Mah-che-saw, 2 sections; (6) for the band of Mau-ke-kose, 6 sections; and (7) for the bands of Nees-waugh-gee and Quash-qua, 3 sections. The bands just listed would appear to represent the existent (1832) bands of Potawatomi in the area at the time the treaty was made. However, others were to be found in the region in times not very much earlier than this. Royce's map, for example, indicates a "Wi Me go's Village" on Indian creek in the southeastern corner of the cession. According to John Tipton, a Potawatomi band numbering 8, named "Wy- me- go" was among these drawing rations in October, 1826. (Indiana Historical Collections, XXIV, 614, 1942.) Perhaps in this short period the band had been consolidated with one of the group mentioned in land cession. Other Potawatomi villages are listed in this area in the map prepared by Daniel Hough which appeared in the Indiana Geological Report for 1882. These include the town of Winemac, located near the present Winamac in Pulaski county on the Tippecanoe river which was the seat of a chief who visited Washington several times and died in the summer of 1821, the Potawatomi villages of Wanatah, located in La Porte county a short distance east of the present Wanatah, and the village of Tassinong, located in Porter county near the present town of the same name.
Cartographical evidence shows that the extreme northern section of this tract (Royce #180), as well as the adjacent region (Royce #133), which today forms the area about Garry, Indiana, and can be identified on the maps as the mouth of the Calumet River, was an early seat of Potawatomi occupation. The Charlevoix-Bellin map, drawn in Paris in 1744, shows a village of the Potawatomi on Lake Michigan near the Calumet River. Jeffery's map (Lon don, 1761) designates this same area as the home of the Potawatomi. A Potawatomi village is not indicated again in the area, except for General Hull's map, drawn prior to 1802, which shows one on the south bank of the "Grand Killomick" river, his term for the Calumet. (The cartographic evidence is summarized in "The Calumet Region Historical Guide," pp. 6-10, compiled in 1939 by the Work Projects Administration.)
The presence of place names such as "Iroquois River" in the western portion of the tract might suggest the presence of other tribes, but according to Beckwith (Beckwith, H.W., "Indian Names of Water Courses in the State of Indiana," Twelfth Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural History of Indiana, Indianapolis, 1833, pp. 39-43.) The name was obtained prior to 1700 as a result of the defeat of a war party of Iroquois upon its banks by the Illinois Indians. A Mohegan band, according to Father Charlevoix's Narrative Journal, was to be found on the Kankakee river in 1721. We may doubtless also include the Miami among the early occupants of the region. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, the region appears to be strictly Potawatomi territory.