{{Short description, 1831 land cession by the Shawnee tribe to the US in present-day Wapakoneta, Ohio
The Treaty of Wapakoneta was signed on August 8, 1831. Remnants of the
Shawnee
The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. In the 17th century they lived in Pennsylvania, and in the 18th century they were in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with some bands in Kentucky a ...
Wapakoneta Wapakoneta may refer to:
;Places
*Wapakoneta, Ohio
*The Lima- Van Wert-Wapakoneta, Ohio Combined Statistical Area
;Ships
*, United States Navy ships
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*The Treaty of Wapakoneta
*The Wapakoneta City School District
The Wapakoneta City Schoo ...
were forced to relinquish claims that they had to land in western
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
.
In exchange, the
United States
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government agreed to provide the tribe with 100,000 acres (400 km²) of land west of the
Mississippi River
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. The United States officials agreed to provide supplies and monetary payment and to construct a
sawmill
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and a
gristmill
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for the Shawnees on their newly allocated land. This agreement became known as the Treaty of Wapakoneta or the ''Treaty with the Shawnee''.
The treaty, along with several other agreements between indigenous tribes and the United States government, marked the slow but gradual removal of native people to land west of the Mississippi River, a policy known as
Indian removal
Indian removal was the United States government policy of forced displacement of self-governing tribes of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a de ...
Wapakoneta Wapakoneta may refer to:
;Places
*Wapakoneta, Ohio
*The Lima- Van Wert-Wapakoneta, Ohio Combined Statistical Area
;Ships
*, United States Navy ships
;Other
*The Treaty of Wapakoneta
*The Wapakoneta City School District
The Wapakoneta City Schoo ...