Term: Menominee Treaty of 1836
Definition:
Agreement negotiated Sept. 3 at Cedar Point, Wis., with the Menominee, who ceded much of their land in northeast Wisconsin between Green Bay and the Wolf River (about half the land remaining to them from the 1831 treaty) to the U.S.
View pictures relating to Menominee Indians at Wisconsin Historical Images.
[Source: Kappler, Charles Joseph, 1868-1946. Kappler's Indian affairs: laws and treaties. (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1904-1979). vol. II, pp. 463-466; online at http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/]
