Treaty of Green Bay, 1821

This treaty dated Aug. 18, 1821, is signed by the chiefs and by President James Monroe. Under its provisions and another the following year, the Menominee and Ho-chunk would have given the Mohican Indians from New York virtually the entire western shore of Lake Michigan. In the end, however, the two Wisconsin tribes argued that their principal leaders had not attended the treaty councils, and that they had only intended to share the land rather than cede title to it; so this treaty never became law. It would take another decade and several more negotiations for the issue be settled