Godfroy Reserve

The Godfroy Reserve was a tract of land allotted to Chief Francois Godfroy (Palaanswa), chief of an American native tribe, the Miami Nation, by United States government Indian treaty.

The Miami Tribe was forced to move west to Kansas Territory (and later to Indian Territory), but several tribal leaders, all of mixed French Canadian and Native American heritage, were allotted land in Indiana.

This exception was due to their history of cooperation with the US and their willingness to participate in government attempts to "civilize" them.

The reserve land was occupied as a Half-breed tract between about 1814 and 1834, after which Chief Godfroy left because white neighbors repeatedly encroached upon the land, and because of the conditions of the Treaty of 1834 between Indiana and the Miamis who remained.

[1][2] The text of the marker reads: Reserved by U.S. to Chief Francois Godfroy of the Miami Nation of Indians by treaty at St. Mary's, Ohio, 6 October 1818, 3, 840 acres on Salamonie River at La Petite Prairie, Harrison Township, Blackford County; reserve lands sold 1827, 1836.