Early Treaties
The Treaty of Chicago 1833 documents the largest cessation of land in a series of treaties from the Three Fires Confederacy to the United States government. It also sparked the forced removal of most Michigan Potawatomi west of the Mississippi River (United Nations, 1835). Though these 19th-century treaties granted the right for indigenous people to hunt and fish on reservation land, forced removal made it impossible for many to do so in Michigan territory.
Later treaties of 1836 and 1842 are now formally recognized by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources' Tribal Coordination Unit (TCU); however, this collaboration between the state government and Michigan tribes only falls within the boundaries of the Northern Lower and Upper Peninsulas and does not interact with the tribal lands of the Pokagon ("Tribal Coordination," 2019). These treaties were only signed by Odawa and Ojibwe tribes and did not include the Potawatomi (U.S. Army Corps, 2019).
References:
“Tribal Coordination.†The Department of Natural Resources. State of Michigan, 2019. https://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-350-79136_79236_84834---,00.html.
United Nation of Chippewas, O. and Potawatomi Indians., United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson)., United States. 1833 Sept. 26. (1835). Treaty between the United States of America and the United Nation of Chippewa, Ottowa, and Potawatamie Indians: concluded September 26, 1833--ratified February 21, 1835. [Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1835]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. "Treaty Rights and Subsistence Fishing in the U.S. Waters of the Great Lakes, Upper Mississippi River, and Ohio River Basins." GLMRIS, June 2019. http://glmris.anl.gov/documents/docs/Subsistence_Fishing_Report.pdf.