Congressional Serial Set, Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903 - Indians of North America Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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aforesaid agent agree to pay annuities Arkansas River assigned bands blacksmith boundary line Cherokee nation Chickasaw chiefs and warriors Chippewa Choctaw citizens claims commissioners concluded consent consideration contracting parties Creek nation Delaware delivered direction east eighteen hundred expenses five hundred dollars former treaties Fox tribes further agree granted head-men hereby agreed hereby cede hundred and fifty improvements Indian affairs Ioway Kickapoos Lake lands ceded located ment Miami Miami tribe Mississippi river Missouri Missouri River mouth nation of Indians Osage paid patent Pawnee payment peace and friendship persons Piankeshaws place of beginning POTAWATOMI Proclamation ratified relinquish remove reservation Sacs and Foxes section of land Seneca Seneca nation Shawnees Sioux Stat stipulated Territory thence thereof thereto thousand dollars thousand eight hundred tion tract of land tribe of Indians tribe or nation undersigned chiefs United States agree Wabash Wabash river whereas Wyandot
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Page 126 - An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers.
Page 22 - That the Cherokee nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization, and to become herdsmen and cultivators, instead of remaining in a state of hunters...
Page 9 - For the benefit and comfort of the Indians, and for the prevention of injuries or oppressions on the part of the citizens or Indians, the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the trade with the Indians, and managing all their affairs in such manner as they think proper.
Page 625 - And on and after the first day of January, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, the Secretary of the Treasury shall redeem, in coin, the United States legal-tender notes then outstanding on their presentation for redemption, at the office of the assistant treasurer of the United States in the city of New York, in sums of not less than fifty dollars.
Page 31 - And for the same considerations, and as an evidence of the returning friendship of the said Indian tribes, of their confidence in the United States, and desire to provide for their accommodation, and for that convenient intercourse which will be beneficial to both parties, the said Indian tribes do also cede to the United States the following pieces of land, to wit: 1.
Page 176 - to authorize the President of the United States to cause a road to be marked out from the Western frontier of Missouri to the confines of New Mexico...
Page 33 - Shawanese, the amount of one thousand dollars. 4th. To the Miamis, the amount of one thousand dollars. 5th. To the Ottawas, the amount of one thousand dollars. 6th. To the Chippewas, the amount of one thousand dollars. 7th. To the Putawatimes, the amount of one thousand dollars.
Page 34 - Indians meditate a. war against the United States, or either of them, and the same shall come to the knowledge of the...
Page 182 - Indian tribes agree, that for injuries done by individuals on either side, no private revenge or retaliation shall take place; but instead thereof, complaint shall be made by the party injured to the other...
Page 511 - And the said confederated tribes and bands agree to remove to, and settle upon, the same, within one year after the ratification of this treaty. In the mean time it shall be lawful for them to reside upon any ground not in the actual claim and occupation of citizens of the United States ; and upon any ground claimed or occupied, if with the permission of the owner or claimant.