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Treaty of Chicago

1821 and 1833 treaties between the United States and Native Americans

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
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The Treaty of Chicago may refer to either of two treaties made and signed in the settlement that became Chicago, Illinois, between the United States and the Odawa, Ojibwe, and Bodéwadmi Native American peoples. The first was in 1821 and the second in 1833.

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This entry incorporates text from “Treaty of Chicago” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.