Treaties : Treaty of 1836
TREATY WITH THE IOWA, ETC. (September 17, 1836)
7 Stat., 511.
Proclamation, Feb. 15, 1837.
Articles of a treaty made and concluded at Fort Leavenworth, on the
Missouri river, between William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, on
the part of the United States, of the one part, and the undersigned chiefs,
warriors, and counsellors of the Ioway tribe and the band of Sacks and Foxes
of the Missouri, (residing west of the State of Missouri) in behalf of their
respective tribes, of the other part.
ARTICLE 1. By the first article of the treaty of Prairie du Chien, held the
fifteenth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty, with the confederated tribes
of Sacks, Foxes, Ioways, Omahaws, Missourias, Ottoes, and Sioux, the country
ceded to the United States by that treaty, is to be assigned and allotted under
the direction of the President of the United States to the tribes living
thereon, or to such other tribes as the President may locate thereon for hunting
and other purposes. And whereas it is further represented to us the chiefs,
warriors, and counsellors of the Ioways and Sack and Fox band aforesaid, to be
desirable that the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri
river, should be attached to and become a part of said State, and the Indian
title thereto, be entirely extinguished; but that, notwithstanding, as these
lands compose a part of the country embraced by the provisions of said first
article of the treaty aforesaid, the stipulations thereof will be strictly
observed until the assent of the Indians interested is given to the proposed
measures.
[Platte Purchase lands to be sold to U.S. but as part of 1830 Treaty lands,
other tribes must agree and 1830 stipulations hold]
Now we the chiefs, warriors, and counsellors of the Ioways, and Missouri band
of Sacks and Foxes, fully understanding the subject, and well satisfied from the
local position of the lands in question, treat they never can be made available
for Indian purposes, and that an attempt to place an Indian population on them,
must inevitably lead to collisions with the citizens of the United States; and
further believing that the extension of the State line in the direction
indicated would have a happy effect, by presenting a natural boundary between
the whites and Indians; and willing, moreover, to give the United States a
renewed evidence of our attachment and friendship, do hereby for ourselves, and
on behalf of our respective tribes, (having full power and authority to this
effect) forever cede, relinquish, and quit claim, to the United States, all our
right, title, and interest of whatsoever nature in, and to, the lands lying
between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river; and do freely and fully
exonerate the United States from any guarantee; condition or limitation,
expressed or implied, under the treaty of Prairie du Chien aforesaid, or
otherwise, as to the entire and absolute disposition of the said lands, fully
authorizing the United States to do with the same whatever shall seem expedient
or necessary.
[Ioways and Sac & Fox of Missouri cede Platte Purchase]
As a proof of the continued friendship and liberality of the United States
towards the Ioways and band of Sacks and Foxes of the Missouri, and as an
evidence of the sense entertained for the good will manifested by said tribes to
the citizens and Government of the United States, as evinced in the preceding
cession or relinquishment, the undersigned, William Clark, agrees on behalf of
the United States, to pay as a present to the said Ioways and band of Sacks and
Foxes, seven thousand five hundred dollars in money, the receipt of which they
hereby acknowledge.
[Price of Platte Purchase lands = $7500]
ARTICLE 2. As the said tribes of Ioways and Sacks and Foxes, have applied for
a small piece of land, south of the Missouri, for a permanent home, on which
they can settle, and request the assistance of the Government of the United
States to place them on this land, in a situation at least equal to that they
now enjoy on the land ceded by them: Therefore I, William Clark, Superintendent
of Indian Affairs, do further agree on behalf of the United States, to assign to
the Ioway tribe, and Missouri band of Sacks and Foxes, the small strip of land
on the south side of the Missouri river, lying between the Kickapoo northern
boundary line and the Grand Nemahar river, and extending from the Missouri back
and westwardly with the said Kickapoo line and the Grand Nemahar, making four
hundred sections; to be divided between the said Ioways and Missouri band of
Sacks and Foxes, the lower half to the Sacks and Foxes, and the upper half to
the Ioways.
[Iowa assigned upper Nemaha Reservation; Sac & Fox assigned lower
Nemaha]
ARTICLE 3. The Ioways and Missouri band of Sacks and Foxes further agree,
that they will move and settle on the lands assigned them in the above article,
as soon as arrangements can be made by them; and the undersigned William Clark,
in behalf of the United States, agrees, that as soon as the above tribes have
selected a site for their villages, and places for their fields, and moved to
them, to erect for the Ioways five comfortable houses, to enclose and break up
for them two hundred acres of ground; to furnish them with a farmer, a
blacksmith, schoolmaster, and interpreter, as long as the President of the
United States may deem proper; to furnish them with such agricultural implements
as may be necessary, for five years; to furnish them with rations for one year,
commencing at the time of their arrival at their new homes; to furnish them with
one ferry-boat; to furnish them with one hundred cows and calves and five bulls
and one hundred stock hogs when they require them; to furnish them with a mill
and assist in removing them, to the extent of five hundred dollars. And to erect
for the Sacks and Foxes three comfortable houses; to enclose and break up for
them two hundred acres of ground; to furnish them, with a farmer, blacksmith,
schoolmaster, and interpreter, as long as the President of the United States may
deem proper; to furnish them with such agricultural implements as may be
necessary, for five years; to furnish them with rations for one year, commencing
at the time of their arrival at their new home; to furnish them with one
ferry-boat; to furnish them with one hundred cows and calves and five bulls, one
hundred stock hogs when they require them; to furnish them with a mill; and to
assist in moving them, to the extent of four hundred dollars.
[Arrangments for settlement at Nemaha]
ARTICLE 4. This treaty shall be obligatory on the tribes, parties hereto,
from and after the date hereof, and on the United States from and after its
ratification by the Government thereof.
Done, and signed, and sealed, at fort Leavenworth, on the Missouri, this
seventeenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and of
the independence of the United States the sixty-first.
Wm. Clark, Superintendent Indian Affairs.
Ioways: Mo-hos-ca, or white cloud, his x mark, [Maxaska]
Nau-che-ning, or no heart, his x mark, [Naceninge]
Wa-che-mo-ne, or the orator, his x mark, [Wac'emani]
Ne-o-mo-ne, or raining cloud, his x mark, [Niumani]
Mau-o-mo-ne, or pumpkin, his x mark, [Mawomani]
Congu, or plumb, his x mark, [Kanje= plum]
Wau-thaw-ca-be-chu, one that eats raw, his x mark, [Wathakebicu]
Ne-wau-thaw-chu, hair shedder, his x mark, [Niwathacu]
Mau-hau-ka, bunch of arrows, his x mark, [Mahaga]
Cha-tau-the-ne, big bull, his x mark, [Cedothini]
Cha-tea-thau, buffalo bull, his x mark, [Ceditho]
Cha-ta-ha-ra-wa-re, foreign buffalo, his x mark, [Cedaharaware]
Sacks and Foxes:
Cau-ca-car-mack, rock bass, his x mark,
Sea-sa-ho, sturgeon, his x mark,
Pe-a-chin-a-car-mack, bald headed eagle, his x mark,
Pe-a-chin-a-car-mack, jr., bald headed eagle, his x mark,
Ca-ha-qua, red fox, his x mark,
Pc-shaw-ca, bear, his x mark,
Po-cau-ma, deer, his x mark,
Ne-bosh-ca-wa, wolf, his x mark,
Ne-squi-in-a, deer, his x mark,
Ne-sa-au-qua, bear, his x mark,
Qua-co-ou-si, wolf, his x mark,
Se-quil-la, deer, his x mark,
As-ke-pa-ke-ka-as-a, green lake, his x mark,
Wa-pa-se, swan, his x mark,
No-cha-taw-wa-ta-sa, star, his x mark,
Witnesses:
S. W. Kearny, colonel First Regiment First Dragoons,
Wm. Bowman, sergeant-major Dragoons,
Jno. Dougherty, Indian Agent,
Jeffrey Dorion, his x mark, sworn interpreter,
Andrew S. Hughes, Sub-agent,
George R. H. Clark,
Peter Cadue, his x mark, sworn interpreter,
William Duncan, Indian farmer,
Jos. V. Hamilton, sutler Dragoons,
Jaques White, interpreter, United States,
H. Robedou, jr.,
Louis M. Darrion.
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