WITNESSES PRESENT:-R. A. Forsyth, Secretary. Alex. Wolcott, Jr. Indian Agent, Chicago. D. B. Douglass, Capt. U. S. Engineers. Æneas Mackay, Lieut. corps Artillery. John J. Pierce, Lieut. Artillery. Henry R. Schoolcraft, Mineralogist to the Expedition. James Duane Doty. Charles C. Trowbridge. Alex. R. Chase. Jas. Ryley, Sworn Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. ARTICLES OF A TREATY, Made and concluded at L'Arbre Croche and Michilimackinac, in the territory of Michigan, between the United States of America, by their Commissioner Lewis Cass, and the Ottawa and Chippewa nations of Indians. ART. 1. The Ottawa and Chippewa nations of Indians cede to the United States the Saint Martin Islands in Lake Huron, containing plaster of Paris, and to be located under the direction of the United States. ART. 2. The Ottawa and Chippewa nations of Indians acknowledge to have this day received a quantity of goods in full satisfaction of the above cession. ART. 3. This treaty shall be obligatory on the contracting parties after the same shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof. In testimony whereof the said Lewis Cass, Commissioner as aforesaid, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Ottawa and Chippewa nations of Indians, have hereunto set their hands, at Michilimackinac and L'Arbre Croche, in the Territory of Michigan, this 6th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. July 6, 1820. Proclamation, March 8, 1821. St. Martin Islands ceded to the U.S. Goods in full satisfaction to the Indians. Treaty binding when ratified. WITNESSES PRESENT: Jed. Morse, D.D. Gilbert Knapp. Richard C. Morse. H. G. Gravenant, Sworn Interpreter. George Boyd, Indian Agent. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. Proclamation, Jan. 13, 1821. A TREATY, July 19, 1820. Made and concluded by, and between, Auguste Chouteau and Benjamin Stephenson, Commissioners of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said States, of the one part, and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, on the part and behalf of their said Nation, of the other part, the same being supplementary to, and amendatory of, the Treaty made and concluded at Edwardsville, on the 30th July, 1819, between the United States and the said Kickapoo nation. Sixth article of treaty of Edwardsville altered and amended. Substitute for said sixth article. ART. 1. It is agreed, between the United States and the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, that the sixth article of the treaty, to which this is supplementary, shall be, and the same is hereby, altered and amended, so as to read as follows, viz: In consideration of, and exchange for, the cession made by the aforesaid tribe, in the first article of this treaty, the United States, in addition to three thousand dollars worth of merchandise, this day paid to the said tribe, hereby cede to the said tribe, to be by them possessed in like manner as the lands, ceded by the first article of this treaty by them to the United States, were possessed, a certain tract of land in the territory of Missouri, and included within the following boundaries, viz: Beginning at the confluence of the rivers Pommes de Terre and Osage; thence, up said river Pommes de Terre, to the dividing ridge which separates the waters of Osage and White rivers; thence, with said ridge, and westwardly, to the Osage line; thence, due north with said line, to Nerve creek; thence, down the same, to a point due south of the mouth of White Clay, or Richard creek; thence, north, to the Osage river; thence, down said river, to the beginning. In testimony whereof, the Commissioners aforesaid, and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors as aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals. Done at St. Louis, in the Territory of Missouri, the 19th of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and of the Independence of the United States the forty-fifth. AUG. CHOUTEAU, Signed, sealed, and delivered, in presence of the following witnesses: Pascal Cerre, A TREATY Made and concluded by Benjamin Parke, a Commissioner for that purpose on the part of the United States, of the one part; and the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the Wea tribe of Indians, of the other part. ART. 1. The Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said Tribe, agree to cede, and they do hereby cede and relinquish, to the United States all the lands reserved by the second article of the Treaty between the United States and the said Tribe, concluded at Saint Mary's, on the second day of October, eighteen hundred and eighteen. ART. 2. The sum of five thousand dollars, in money and goods, which is now paid and delivered by the United States, the receipt whereof the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said Tribe, do hereby acknowledge, is considered by the parties a full compensation for the cession and relinquishment above mentioned. ART. 3. As it is contemplated by the said Tribe, to remove from the Wabash, it is agreed, that the annuity secured to the Weas, by the Treaty of Saint Mary's, above mentioned, shall hereafter be paid to them at Kaskaskia, in the state of Illinois. Aug. 11, 1820. Proclamation, Jan. 8, 1821. Cession by the Weas. $5000, in money and goods, tion to the tribe. in full satisfac Annuity to be hereafter paid at Kaskaskia. ART. 4. This Treaty, as soon as it is ratified by the President and Treaty binding Senate of the United States, to be binding on the contracting parties. In testimony whereof, the said Benjamin Parke, Commissioner as aforesaid, and the said Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said Tribe, have hereunto set their hands, at Vincennes, this eleventh day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty. Maquakononga, or Negro Legs, B. PARKE. Cheholcah, the Dipper, Go To paquah, or the Lone Tree, Teche Pa Low, or Shirt, In presence of John Law, Secretary to the Commissioner. William Prince, Indian Agent. Nathl. Ewing. W. E. Breading. E. Boudinot. Pr. Laplante. Michel Brouillet, United States' Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. when ratified. Sept. 5, 1820. Proclamation, Jan. 8, 1821. Annuity to be hereafter paid at Kaskaskia. Ante, p. 202. $2000 paid to enable them to remove; in full for annuity of 1821. ARTICLES OF A CONVENTION Made and concluded, between Benjamin Parke, a Commissioner on the part of the United States, for that purpose, of the one part, and the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the Tribe of Kickapoos of the Vermilion, of the other part. ART. 1. It is agreed, that the annuity secured to the said Tribe, by the Treaty of the thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and nineteen, shall hereafter be paid to the said Tribe at Kaskaskias, in the state of Illinois. ART. 2. As the said Tribe are now about leaving their settlements on the Wabash, and have desired some assistance to enable them to remove, the said Benjamin Parke, on behalf of the United States, has paid and advanced to the said Tribe, two thousand dollars, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged; which said sum of two thousand dollars, is to be considered as an equivalent, in full, for the annuity due the said Tribe, by virtue of the aforesaid Treaty, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one. In testimony whereof, the said Benjamin Parke, Commissioner as aforesaid, and the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said Tribe, have hereunto set their hands, at Vincennes, the fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and twenty. In presence of William Prince, Indian Agent. Samuel Jacobs. R. S. Reynolds. George R. C. Sullivan, Vincennes Postmaster. Toussaint Dubois. Michel Brouillet, Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. Oct. 18, 1820. Proclamation, Jan. 8, 1821. Objects of the treaty. A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, LIMITS, AND Between the United States of America and the Choctaw nation PREAMBLE. WHEREAS it is an important object with the President of the United States, to promote the civilization of the Choctaw Indians, by the establishment of schools amongst them; and to perpetuate them as a nation, by exchanging, for a small part of their land here, a country beyond the Mississippi River, where all, who live by hunting and will not work, may be collected and settled together. And whereas it is desirable to the state of Mississippi, to obtain a small part of the land belonging to said nation; for the mutual accommodation of the parties, and for securing the happiness and protection of the whole Choctaw nation, as well as preserving that harmony and friendship which so happily subsists between them and the United States, James Monroe, President of the United States of America, by Andrew Jackson, of the State of Tennessee, Major General in the Army of the United States, and General Thomas Hinds, of the State of Mississippi, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States, on the one part, and the Mingoes, Head Men, and Warriors, of the Choctaw nation, in full Council assembled, on the other part, have freely and voluntarily entered into the following articles, viz: Cession of Choctaws. cession. ART. 1. To enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the above grand and humane objects, the Mingoes, Head Men, lands by the and Warriors, of the Choctaw nation, in full council assembled, in behalf of themselves and the said nation, do, by these presents, cede to the United States of America, all the land lying and being within the boundaries following, to wit:-Beginning on the Choctaw boundary, Bounds of the East of Pearl River, at a point due South of the White Oak spring, on the old Indian path; thence north to said spring; thence northwardly to a black oak, standing on the Natchez road, about forty poles eastwardly from Doake's fence, marked A. J. and blazed, with two large pines and a black oak standing near thereto, and marked as pointers; thence a straight line to the head of Black Creek, or Bouge Loosa; thence down Black Creek or Bouge Loosa to a small Lake; thence a direct course, so as to strike the Mississippi one mile below the mouth of the Arkansas River; thence down the Mississippi to our boundary; thence around and along the same to the beginning. ART. 2. For and in consideration of the foregoing cession, on the part of the Choctaw nation, and in part satisfaction for the same, the Commissioners of the United States, in behalf of said States, do hereby cede to said nation, a tract of country west of the Mississippi River, situate between the Arkansas and Red River, and bounded as follows: -Beginning on the Arkansas River, where the lower boundary line of the Cherokees strikes the same; thence up the Arkansas to the Canadian Fork, and up the same to its source; thence due South to the Red River; thence down Red River, three miles below the mouth of Little River, which empties itself into Red River on the north side; thence a direct line to the beginning. ART. 3. To prevent any dispute upon the subject of the boundaries mentioned in the 1st and 2d articles, it is hereby stipulated between the parties, that the same shall be ascertained and distinctly marked by a Commissioner, or Commissioners, to be appointed by the United States, accompanied by such person as the Choctaw nation may select; said nation having thirty days previous notice of the time and place at which the operation will commence. The person so chosen by the Choctaws, shall act as a pilot or guide, for which the United States will pay him two dollars per day, whilst actually engaged in the performance of that duty. ART. 4. The boundaries hereby established between the Choctaw Indians and the United States, on this side of the Mississippi river, shall remain without alteration until the period at which said nation shall become so civilized and enlightened as to be made citizens of the United States, and Congress shall lay off a limited parcel of land for the benefit of each family or individual in the nation. U.S. cede a tract of country sissippi. west of the Mis Boundaries. Commissioners to ascertain the boundaries. A Choctaw guide at $2 per day. Boundaries east of the Mississippi to re main, until, &c. |