Treaties : Treaty of 1815
TREATY WITH THE IOWA, 1815 (Treaty of Portage des Sioux
(Missouri))
A treaty of peace and friendship, made and concluded at Portage des Sioux,
between William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the
said States, of the one part; and the undersigned, King, Chiefs, and Warriors,
of the Iaway Tribe or Nation, on the part and behalf of the said Tribe or
Nation, of the other part.
The parties being desirous of re-establishing peace and friendship between
the United States and the said tribe or nation, and of being placed in all
things, and in every respect, on the same footing upon which they stood before
the war, have agreed to the following articles:
ARTICLE 1.
Every injury, or act of hostility, by one or either of the contracting
parties against the other shall be mutually forgiven and forgot.
ARTICLE 2.
There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all the citizens of the
United States and all the individuals composing the said Iaway tribe or
nation.
ARTICLE 3.
The contracting parties do hereby agree, promise, and oblige themselves,
reciprocally to deliver up all the prisoners now in their hands, (by what means
soever the same may have come into their possession,) to the officer commanding
at St. Louis, to be by him restored to their respective nations, as soon as it
may be practicable.
ARTICLE 4.
The contracting parties, in the sincerity of mutual friendship, recognize,
re-establish, and confirm, all and every treaty, contract, and agreement, hereto
fore concluded between the United States and the said Iaway tribe or nation.
In witness whereof, the said William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste
Choteau, commissioners as aforesaid, and the aforesaid king, chiefs, and
warriors, have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals, this
sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and fifteen, and of the independence of the United States the fortieth.
William Clark
Ninian Edwards
Auguste Choteau
Ranoingga, the little pipe, his x mark
Wohomppee, the broth, his x
mark
Wyingwaha, or hard heart, his x mark
Shongatong, the horse jockey,
his x mark
Wongehehronyne, or big chief, his x mark
Nahocheininugga,
without ears, his x mark
Wonehee, or the slave, his x mark
Conja, the
plumb, his x mark,
Hahraga, the forked horn, his x mark
Chahowhrowpa, the
dew-lap, his x mark
Eniswahanee, the big axe, his x mark
Manuhanu, the
great walker, his x mark
Washcommanee, the great marcher, his x
mark
Chapee, the pine buffaloe, his x mark
Wyimppishcoonee, the
ill-humoured man, his x mark
Okugwata, the roller, his x mark
Ishtagrasa,
grey eyes, his x mark
Done at Portage des Sioux, in the presence of--
R. Wash, secretary to
the commission
Samuel Solomon, interpreter
Dl. Bissel,
brigadier-general
Maurice Blondeaux
R. Paul, C. C. T.
Louis
Dorion
Samuel Brady, lieutenant
Dennis Julien
Geo. Fisher, surgeon,
Illinois regiment
Jas. McCulloch, captain
P. Choteau, agent.
Jno. W.
Johnson, United States factor and Indian agent
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