Half Day

Chief Half Day (Aptakisic) of the Potawatomi

 

Lived along the Fox River in Illinois.

 

Showed great negotiation skills at the Treaty of Chicago (1833) where he demanded that any new land reserved in the west must be inspected and approved by the tribe before they moved there.
 

The first reservation in Iowa was rejected and the Prairie Band Potawatomi, who migrated from Chicago in 1835, settled in the Platt Country of northern Missouri and southern Iowa before finally relenting to live on the reservation in Kansas by 1846.