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What are three details about the 1805 treaty

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In the treaty, the Ojibwa nations ceded to the United States a large tract of land located from the Mississippi River in east-central Minnesota to the Wisconsin River in northern Wisconsin, using as its southern boundaries the "Prairie du Chien Line" as established by the 1825 First Treaty of Prairie du Chien, between the Dakota and the Ojibwa, and using the Lake Superior watershed as its northern boundaries.

1. Land Grant to Indians: The land cession was conducted to guarantee access to the Wisconsin Territory's lumber resources that was needed to
(2) help build housing for the growing populations in St. Louis, Missouri and Cleveland, Ohio. In the sale, (3) the United States obligated itself to payments to the signatory Bands for twenty years and additional provisions for the Metis in the territory. (4)The Ojibwa Indians retained rights to continue hunting, fishing and gathering within the treaty-ceded territory.

The 1805 Treaty of St. Peters or the Treaty with the Sioux, better known as Pike's Purchase, was a treaty that conducted between Lieutenant Zebulon Pike for the United States and Chiefs "Le Petit Carbeau" and Way Aga Enogee on behalf of the Sioux Nation.

Three things included in the Treaty are: see above

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