Description of cession or reservation:
A portion of their reserve to be held in common. The lands set apart for the "rest of the tribe," known as the
Prairie band of Pottawatomies, are as follows:
Secs. 25, 26, 35, and 36 of T. 7 S., R. 13 E.; secs. 25 to 36, both inclusive, of T. 7 S., R. 14 E.; secs. 28 to 33,
both inclusive, of T. 7 S., R. 15 E.; secs. 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 23, 24, 25, 26, 35, and 36, T. 8 S., R. 13 E.; all of T.
8 S., R. 14 E.; secs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33, T. 8 S., R. 15 E.; secs. 1, 2,
11, 12, 13, and 14, T. 9 S., R. 13 E.; secs. 1 to 18, both inclusive, of T. 9 S., R. 14 E.; secs. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 17,
and 18, T. 9 S., R. 15 E., containing 77,357.67 acres. Of this amount of land 28,229.24 acres have been allotted
to 265 members of the band under the general allotment act of Feb. 8, 1887 (24 Stat., p. 388).
A portion of their reserve to be allotted in severalty to individuals.
A portion of their reserve to be sold to the Leavenworth, Pawnee and Western Railroad Company.
Historical data and remarks:
This is the tract now known as the Pottawatomi reserve in Kansas and is occupied by those commonly termed
the "Prairie band of Pottawatomi."
The portion to be sold to the railroad company comprised all that should be left of the original reserve after
the "reserve in common" should be set apart and after the individual allotments should have been made out of
the remainder. The individual allotments were sold from time to time by the allottees, who became citizens of
the U. S., but who afterward, on their own petition, were assigned a reserve as Indians in Indian Territory.
Source:
United States Statutes at Large
Volume XII November 1861
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