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The Treaty with the Ottawa, etc. is a Treaty between the United States and the Ottawa , Ojibwa , and Potawatomi , signed on August 24 , 1816 and proclaimed on December 30 , 1816. By signing the treaty, the tribes, their chiefs, and their warriors relinquished all right, claim, and title to land previously ceded to the United States by the Sac and Fox tribes on November 3 , 1804 . By signing, the united tribes also ceded a 20 mile strip of land to the United States, which connected Chicago and Lake Michigan with the Illinois River . In 1848, the Illinois And Michigan Canal was built on the ceded land and, in 1900, the Chicago Sanitary And Ship Canal . EXTERNAL LINKS
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