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Article: The holes in the grid: reservation surveys in lower Michigan.
- Article from:
- Michigan Historical Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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On many of the topographical maps produced by the U.S. Geological Survey for Michigan, you will see a feature represented by a thin red line, curiously labeled "Old Indian Treaty Boundary" or "Old Indian Boundary." Sometimes this line follows visible landscape features, such as roads, railroads, or property boundaries, but sometimes it is an abstract line on the quad sheet, referencing only itself. These lines are the reminder of a nineteenth-century mapping process--the mapping of treaty reservations in Michigan Territory by public land surveyors. The treaty reservations were lands set aside for Native villages as part of the provisions of the treaties negotiated between ...