ART. 6. The lease granted for establishments on the roads. leading through the Choctaw country, is hereby confirmed in all its conditions; and, except in the alteration of boundary, nothing in this instrument shall affect or change any of the pre-existing obligations of the contracting parties. ART. 7. This treaty shall take effect and become reciprocally obligatory, so soon as the same shall have been ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the said United States. Done on Mount Dexter, in Pooshapukanuk, in the Choctaw country, this sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States of America the thirtieth. James Pitchlynn, his x mark, Panshee Eenanhla, his x mark, Witnesses present at signing and sealing: Thomas Augustine Claiborn, Secretary to the Commissioners, Samuel Mitchell, United States agent to the Chickasaws. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. William Colbert, of the Chickasaws, his x mark, Lewis Ward, Charles Juzan, Garrud E. Nelson, David Chote, Nathaniel Tolsom, Lewis Lefto, John Pitchlynn, United States Interpreter, Will. Tyrrell, Assistant Interpreter. PIANKESHAWS. [CONCLUDED DECEMBER 30, 1805.] Articles of a treaty made at Vincennes, in the Indiana territory, between William Henry Harrison, Governor of the said territory, superintendent of Indian affairs, and commissioner plenipotentiary of the United States, for concluding any treaty or treaties, which may be found necessary, with any of the Indian tribes northwest of the Ohio, of the one part, and the chiefs and head men of the Piankeshaw tribe, of the other part. ART. 1. The Piankeshaw tribe cedes and relinquishes to the United States forever, all that tract of country, (with the exception of the reservation hereinafter made,) which lies between the Wabash and the tract ceded by the Kaskaskia tribe, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, and south of a line to be drawn from the northwest corner of the Vincennes tract, north seventy-eight degrees west, until it intersects the boundary line which has heretofore separated the lands of the Piankeshaws from the said tract ceded by the Kaskaskia tribe. ART. 2. The United States take the Piankeshaw tribe under their immediate care and patronage, and will extend to them a protection as effectual as that which is enjoyed by the Kaskaskia tribe; and the said Piankeshaw tribe will never commit any depredations, or make war upon any of the other tribes, without the consent of the United States. ART. 3. The said United States will cause to be delivered to the Piankeshaws, yearly, and every year, an additional annuity of three hundred dollars, which is to be paid in the same manner, and under the same conditions, as that to which they are entitled by the treaty of Greenville: provided always, that the United States may, at any time they shall think proper, divide the said annuity amongst the individuals of the said tribe. ART. 4. The stipulations made in the preceding articles, together with the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars, which is now delivered, the receipt whereof the said chiefs do hereby acknowledge, is considered a full compensation for the cession and relinquishment abovementioned. ART. 5. As long as the lands now ceded remain the property of the United States, the said tribes shall have the privilege of living and hunting upon them, in the same manner that they have heretofore done; and they reserve to themselves the right of locating a tract of two square miles, or twelve hundred and eighty acres, the fee of which is to remain with them forever. ART. 6. This treaty shall be in force as soon as it shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. In testimony whereof, the said William Henry Harrison, and the chiefs and head men representing the said Piankeshaw tribe, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals. Done at Vincennes, on the thirtieth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States the thirtieth. William Henry Harrison, Wabakinklelia, or Gros Bled, Pauquia, or Montour, Macatiwaaluna, or Chien Noir, Signed, sealed, and executed, in presence of William Prince, Secretary to the Commissioner, L. S. L. S. L. S. L. S. John Griffin, one of the Judges of the Indiana Territory, Michel Brouillet, Interpreter. CHEROKEES. [ CONCLUDED JANUARY 7, 1806. ] Articles of a convention made between Henry Dearborn, Secretary of war, being specially authorized thereto by the President of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, and head men of the Cherokee nation of Indians, duly authorized and empowered by said nation. ART. 1. The undersigned chiefs and head men of the Cherokee nation of Indians, for themselves and in behalf of their nation, relinquish to the United States all right, title, interest, and claim, which they or their nation have or ever had to all that tract of country which lies to the northward of the river Tennessee, and westward of a line to be run from the upper part of the Chickasaw Old Fields, at the upper point of an island, called Chickasaw island, on said river, to the most easterly head waters of that branch of said Tennessee river called Duck river, excepting the two following described tracts, viz. one tract bounded southerly on the said Tennessee river, at a place called the Muscle Shoals, westerly by a creek called Tekeetanoeh, or Cyprus creek, and easterly by Chuwalee, or Elk river, or creek, and northerly by a line to be drawn from a point on said Elk river, ten miles on a direct line from its mouth or junction with Tennessee river, to a point on the said Cyprus creek, ten miles on a direct line from its junction with the Tennessee river. The other tract is to be two miles in width, on the north side of Tennessee river, and to extend northerly from that river three miles, and bounded as follows, viz. beginning at the mouth of Spring creek, and running up said creek three miles on a straight line, thence westerly two miles at right angles, with the general course of said creek, thence southerly on a line parallel with the general course of said creek, to the Tennessee river, thence up said river by its waters to the beginning: which first reserved tract is to be considered the common property of the Cherokees who now live on the same, including John D. Chesholm, Autowwe, and Chechout; and the other reserved tract, on which Moses Melton now lives, is to be considered the property of said Melton and Charles Hicks, in equal shares. And the said chiefs and head men also agree to relinquish to the United States all right or claim which they or their nation have to what is called the Long Island, in Holston river. ART. 2. The said Henry Dearborn, on the part of the United States, hereby stipulates and agrees, that in consideration of the relinquishment of title by the Cherokees, as stated in the preceding article, the United States will pay to the Cherokee nation two thousand dollars in money, as soon as this convention shall be duly ratified by the government of the United States; and two thousand dollars in each of the four succeeding years, amounting in the whole to ten thousand dollars; and that a grist-mill shall, within one year from the date hereof, be built in the Cherokee country, for the use of the nation, at such place as shall be considered most convenient; that the said Cherokees shall be furnished with a machine for cleaning cotton; and also, that the old Cherokee chief, called the Black Fox, shall be paid annually one hundred dollars by the United States during his life. ART. 3. It is also agreed on the part of the United States, that the government thereof, will use its influence and best endeavors to prevail on the Chickasaw nation of Indians, to agree to the following boundary between that nation and the Cherokees, to the southward of the Tennessee river, viz. beginning at the mouth of Caney creek, near the lower part of the Muscle Shoals, and to run up the said creek to its head, and in a direct line from thence to the Flat Stone or Rock, the old corner boundary. But it is understood by the contracting parties, that the United States do not engage to have the aforesaid line or boundary established, but only to endeavor to prevail on the Chickasaw nation to consent to such a line as the boundary between the two nations. ART. 4. It is further agreed on the part of the United States, that the claims which the Chickasaws may have to the two tracts reserved by the first article of this convention on the north side of the Tennessee river, shall be settled by the United States in such manner as will be equitable, and will secure to the Cherokees the title to the said reservations. Done at the place, and on the day and year first above written. I certify the foregoing convention has been faithfully interpreted. CHARLES HICKS, Interpreter. "first * It does not appear by the treaty, that there is any place, day, or year, above written:" but the proclamation of the convention, by the President of the United States, declares that it was "concluded at the city of Washington, on the 7th day of January, 1806." |