1838. tion the U. S. Orchard party party $30,500. and the lines of which shall be so run as to include all their settlements and improvements in the vicinity of Green Bay. ART. 3. In consideration of the cession contained in the 1st In consideraarticle of this treaty, the United States agree to pay to the Orch-agree to pay the ard party of the Oneida Indians three thousand (3,000) dollars, 83000, and the and to the First Christian party of the Oneida Indians thirty First Christian thousand five hundred (30,500) dollars, of which last sum three thousand (3,000) dollars may be expended under the supervision of the Rev. Solomon Davis, in the erection of a church and parsonage house, and the residue apportioned, under the direction of the President among the persons having just claims thereto; it being understood that said aggregate sum of thirty-three thousand five hundred (33,500) dollars is designed to be in reimbursement of moneys expended by said Indians and in remuneration of the services of their chiefs and agents in purchasing and securing a title to the land ceded in the 1st article. The United States further agree to cause the tracts reserved in the 2d article to be surveyed as soon as practicable. Denny agrees to relintitle and interest up. ART. 4. În consideration of the sum of five hundred (500) dol-John lars to be paid to him by the chiefs and representatives of the quish his said parties of Oneida Indians, John Denny (alias John Sun-on being paid down,) their interpreter agrees to relinquish to them all his title $500. and interest in the tract reserved in the 2d article of this treaty. of this treaty, &c. ART. 5. It is understood and agreed that the expenses of this Expenses treaty and of the chiefs and representatives signing it, in coming to be paid by U.S. to and returning from this city, and while here, shall be paid by the United States. ART. 6. This treaty to be binding upon the contracting parties Treaty to be when the same shall be ratified by the United States. In witness whereof, the said Carey A. Harris and the undersigned chiefs and representatives of the said parties of Oneida Indians have hereunto set their hands at the City of Washington, this third day of February 1838. First Christians. Henry Powles, C. A. HARRIS. his x mark. John Denny, alias John Sundown, his x mark. binding when ratified by U. S. John Denny, alias John Sundown, [his x mark,] Interpreter. 1838. Ratified May 17th, 1838. Now, therefore, be it known, that I, MARTIN VAN BUREN, President of the United States of America, having seen and considered the said treaty, do, in pursuance of the advice and consent of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the twelfth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, accept, ratify, and confirm the same, and every clause and article thereof. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, having signed the same with my hand. DONE at the City of Washington, this seventeenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and of [L. S.] the Independence of the United States the sixty second. M. VAN BUREN. By the President: JOHN FORSYTH, Secretary of State. Treaty with the Chippewa nation of In. dians, concluded 29th July 1837. Indians cede to the U. S. the fol MARTIN VAN BUREN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, To all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting: WHEREAS, a treaty was, on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, made and concluded at St. Peters (the confluence of the St. Peters and Mississippi rivers) in the Territory of Wisconsin, between the United States of Ame rica, by their commissioner, HENRY DODGE, Governor of said Territory, and the Chippewa nation of Indians, by their chiefs and headmen; which treaty is in the words following, to wit: Articles of a treaty made and concluded at St. Peters (the conflu ence of the St. Peters and Mississippi rivers) in the Territory of Wisconsin, between the United States of America, by their commissioner, Henry Dodge, Governor of said Territory, and the Chippewa nation of Indians, by their chiefs and headmen. ARTICLE 1. The said Chippewa nation, cede to the United lowing tract of States, all that tract of country, included within the following boundaries: country. Boundaries. Beginning at the junction of the Crow Wing and Mississippi rivers, between twenty and thirty miles above where the Missis sippi is crossed by the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude, and running thence to the north point of Lake St. Croix, one of the sources of the St. Croix river; thence to and along the dividing ridge between the waters of Lake Superior and those of the Mississippi, to the sources of the Ocha-sua-sepe a tributary of the Chippewa river; thence to a point on the Chippewa river, twenty miles below the outlet of Lake De Flambeau; thence to the junc tion of the Wisconsin and Pelican rivers; thence on an east course twenty-five miles; thence southerly, on a course parallel with that of the Wisconsin river, to the line dividing the territories of the Chippewas and Menomonies; thence to the Plover Portage; thence along the southern boundary of the Chippewa country, to the commencement of the boundary line dividing it from that of the Sioux, half a days march below the falls on the Chippewa river; thence with said boundary line to the mouth of Wah-tap river, at its junction with the Mississippi; and thence up the Mississippi to the place of beginning. 1838. tion the U. S. ARTICLE 2. In consideration of the cession aforesaid, the United, In considera. States agree to make to the Chippewa nation, annually, for the agree to make. term of twenty years, from the date of the ratification of this years the followtreaty, the following payments. 1. Nine thousand five hundred dollars, to be paid in money. annually for 20 ing payments. $19,000 in goods. smiths' shops,&c. 3. Three thousand dollars for establishing three blacksmiths $3000 for blackshops, supporting the blacksmiths, and furnishing them with iron' and steel. 4. One thousand dollars for farmers, and for supplying them $1000 for farmand the Indians, with implements of labor, with grain or seed;" and whatever else may be necessary to enable them, to carry on their agricultural pursuits. 5. Two thousand dollars in provisions. 6. Five hundred dollars in tobacco. $2000 in provi sions. $500 in tobacco. Times and places for the de visions, &c. The provisions and tobacco, to be delivered at the same time, with the goods, and the money to be paid; which time or times, livery of the proas well as the place or places, where they are to be delivered, shall be fixed upon under the direction of the President of the United States. blacksmiths' The blacksmiths shops to be placed at such points in the Chip-Location of pewa country, as shall be designated by the Superintendent of shops. Indian Affairs, or under his direction. If at the expiration of one or more years, the Indians should prefer to receive goods, instead of the nine thousand dollars agreed to be paid to them in money, they shall be at liberty to do so. Or, should they conclude to appropriate a portion of that annuity to the establishment and support of a school or schools among them, this shall be granted them. Indians may receive goods in stead of the $9000 in money, &c. paid to the half tribution. ARTICLE 3. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be $100,000 to be paid by the United States, to the half-breeds of the Chippewa breeds- its disnation, under the direction of the President. It is the wish of the Indians that their two sub-agents Daniel P. Bushnell, and Miles M. Vineyard, superintend the distribution of this money among their half-breed relations. ARTICLE 4. The sum of seventy thousand dollars shall be applied to the payment, by the United States, of certain claims against the Indians; of which amount twenty-eight thousand dollars, shall, at their request, be paid to William A. Aitkin, twentyfive thousand to Lyman M. Warren, and the balance applied to the liquidation of other just demands against them—which they acknowledge to be the case with regard to that presented by Hercules L. Dousman, for the sum of five thousand dollars; and they request that it be paid. $70,000 to be Sto the payment the Indians. applied by the U. of claims against 1838. Indians allow. ARTICLE 5. The privilege of hunting, fishing, and gathering the wild rice, the lands, the rivers and the lakes included in the upon ed to hunt, &c. territory ceded, is guarantied to the Indians, during the pleasure of the President of the United States. in the country ceded. Treaty to be ratified. ARTICLE 6. This treaty shall be obligatory from and after is obligatory when ratification by the President and Senate of the United States. Done at St. Peters in the Territory of Wisconsin the twentyninth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. HENRY DODGE, L. s. Com'r. (Signed) Pa-qua-a-mo, or the Wood Pecker, his x mark, (seal) From Lac De Flambeau. CHIEFS. Pish-ka-ga-ghe, or the White Crow, his x mark, (seal.) |