 Kechewaishke signed the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe a year before his death, with the provision that of land at the corner of Lake Superior be given to his adopted son Benjamin G. Armstrong.Known as the Buffalo Tract, Armstrong's land comprised part of today's downtown Duluth.Duluth fielded a National Football League team called the Kelleys (officially the Kelley Duluths after the Kelley-Duluth Hardware Store) from 1923 to 1925 and the Eskimos (officially Ernie Nevers' Eskimos after the early NFL great, their star player) from 1926 to 1927.