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"It is agreed between the Sioux and the Chippewas that the line dividing their respective countries shall commence at the Chippewa River, a half day's march below the falls; and from thence to the St. Croix River."
 * Chippewa Valley 16th c belonged to England, occupied by Indians and French fur traders. (p1)
 * Captain Jonathan Carver visited in 1767, wrote a book about his travels around the region. Said that in valley buffalo were larger and more plentiful than any other. Hunted for game, mostly depleted. Included elks.
 * French voyagers, upon finding the EC river, called it La Riviere del Eau Claire (The River of Clear Water) in comparison to the Chippewa. (p1)
 * Chippewa is corruption of Ojibwa. The valley had been their home for centuries. Constantly warring with the Sioux (Dakota). In 1825, a council in Prairie du Chien drew a boundary between the tribes. Ran directly down EC.(p1)
 * Barland contests, despite Thos. Randall, that the dividing line was the Little Niagara. W.W. Bartlett finds an official survey in Madison, made not long after the treaty. A line ran "south fifty nine degrees east, twenty miles to the Chippewa River", starting at Cedar Falls and ending more-or-less exactly on top of where the Little Niagara meets the Chippewa. (p2) (aside: North and West, except Shawtown and lower seventh ward in Chippewa territory, the rest in Sioux territory. Shawtown bridge entirely in Sioux, Madison Street entirely in Chippewa).