The Ottawa City Commission gave recognition to Native American Heritage Month at their meeting on Wednesday. Members of the Ottawa Tribe and President of the Ottawa University Native American Student Association, Anastasia Dixon Sawyer accepted the proclamation:
The Ottawa Tribe was moved to what is now Franklin County in 1832 in exchange for their Ohio lands. In 1837, the Ottawa Indian Baptist Mission was established to assist the tribe. The City of Ottawa was founded in 1864 near the mission, with the first non-indian settlement, the creation of Ottawa University in 1867, was connected to a treaty that allowed the tribe to sell some of its land to fund the new school.
