Extract of a letter from Alexander McKee, Deputy Superintendent General of Indian Affairs,  to Joseph Chew, Secretary to the Indian Department reveals that the Chiefs of the Chippawas have agreed to sell twelve square miles of land. This land is to be resettled by an estimated two to three thousand Indigenous peoples, including Ottawas, who have been displaced by the army of the United States. Significantly, McKee writes "The Chippawas are the only Proprietors of these Lands...." McKee also writes that the Ottawa Chiefs who visited the newly acquired land with him were "extremely happy" upon seeing this new land which their people were to inhabit.