(pg. 58)
On October 20, 1832, a treaty concluded with the Prairie and Kankakee bands of the Potawatomi resulted in the cession of a tract of land on the eastern border of the state of Illinois, northward to the point at which it meets Lake Michigan.
The area, in the time immediately preceding the land cession, was a center of Potawatomi occupation. Royce, for example, gives the location of a series of Potawatomi villages in the territory including: (1) Little Rock village; (2) Mo-she-ke-ten-o village; (3) Min-e-maung's village; (4) Soldier's village; and (5) Wais-us-kuck's village. Sho-bon-ier's village was apparently also located within this territory, but the locating commissioners reported on September 16, 1835 that they were unable to find the village (Royce, 1899, p. 739).