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Kon-shon-to-co, or Poor Bear, head chief, his X mark.

Ba-zhe-ech, or Iron Shirt, his X mark.

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

Az-che-om-a-te-na, or the Old Fool Man, Chief, his X mark. (SEAL) Karn-tin-ta, or the Crow, Chief, his X mark.

(SEAL)

Mah-vip-pah, or the Wolf Sleeve, Chief, his X mark.
Nahn-tan, or The Chief, his X mark.

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

On the part of the Apaches.

Moke-ta-ve-to, or Black Kettle, head chief, his X mark
Oh-ta-ah-ne-so-to-wheo, or Seven Bulls, chief, his X mark.
Hark-kah-o-me, or Little Robe, chief, his X mark.
Moke-tah-vo-ve-bo, or Black White Man, chief, his X mark.
Mun-a-men-ek, or Eagles' Head, headman, his X mark.
O-to-ab-nis-to, or Bull that Hears, headman, his X mark. (SEAL)
On the part of the Cheyennes.

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

O-has-tee, or Little Raven, head chief, his X mark.
Oh-hah-mah-hah, or Storm Chief, his X mark.
Pah-uf-pah-top, or Big Mouth, chief, his X mark,
Ah-cra-ka-tan-nah, or Spotted Wolf, chief, his X mark.
Ah-nah-wat-tan, or Black Man, headman, his X mark.

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

(SEAL)

Nah-a-nah-cha, Chief in Everything, headman, his X mark. (SEAL) Chi-e-nuk, or Haversack, headman, his X mark.

(SEAL)

On the part of the Arapahoes.

Signed and sealed in the presence of:

W. R. IRWIN, Secretary.

D. C. MCNEIL.

TREATY WITH THE CHEYENNES AND
ARAPAHOES, 1865.

Proclaimed February 2, 1867.

Art.

Art.

SUMMARY.

I. Perpetual Peace. Hostile acts to be settled by arbitration. Members of tribes committing depredations to be

surrendered.

II. Reservation for Indians who are parties hereto. Boundaries. No Whites except, etc., to settle thereon. Indians not required to settle therein on until. Amendment. To remove thereto and not leave unless, etc. To refrain from depredations. Not to encamp within ten miles, etc. Claims to other lands relinquished and especially to certain thus bounded.

Art.

III.

Art.

IV.

Art. V.
Art. VI.

Art.

VII.

Until removed to reservation, Indians to be where.
United States may build roads through reservation and
establish military posts. Damages therefor to be ascer-
tained and paid.

Patents for 640 acres in fee simple to certain persons.
Grants for lands in reparation for outrages against certain
bands. to certain chiefs of bands. Conditions of grant.
Lands, how to be selected. Further compensation for
property lost.

Annuities for forty years. Amount. When to be delivered. Present number of Indians.

Art. VIII. Other portions of tribe to be urged to join in this treaty.

Articles of treaty made and concluded at the camp on the Little Arkansas river, in the State of Kansas, on the fourteenth day of October, in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-five, by and between John B. Sanborn, William S. Harney, Thomas Murphy, Kit Carson, William W. Kent, Jesse H. Leavenworth and James Steele, commissioners on the part of the United States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Headmen of and representing the confederate tribes of Arapahoes and Creyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas river, they being duly authorized by their respective tribes to act in said premises.

Art. 1. It is agreed by the parties to this treaty that hereafter perpetual peace shall be maintained between the people and Government of the United States and the Indians parties hereto, and that the Indians parties hereto, shall forever remain at peace with each other, and with all other Indians who sustain friendly relations with the Government of the United States. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this article it is agreed that in case hostile acts or depredations are committed by the people of the United States, or by Indians on friendly terms with the United

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States, against the tribe or tribes, or the individual members of the tribe or tribes, who are parties to this treaty, such hostile acts or depredations shall not be redressed by a resort to arms, but the party or parties aggrieved shall submit their complaints through their agent to the President of the United States, and thereupon an impartial arbitration shall be had, under his direction, and the award thus made shall be binding on all parties interested, and the Government of the United States will in good faith enforce the same. And the Indians, parties hereto, on their part, agree, in case of crimes or other violations of law shall be committed by any person or persons, members of their tribe, such person or persons shall, upon complaint being made, in writing, to their agent, superintendent of Indian affairs, or to other proper authority, by the party injured, and verified by affidavit, be delivered to the person duly authorized to take such person or persons into custody, to the end that such person or persons may be punished according to the laws of the United States.

Art. 2. The United States hereby agrees that the district of country embraced within the following limits, or such portion of the same as may hereafter be designated by the President of the United States for that purpose, viz: Commencing at the mouth of the Red creek or Red fork of the Arkansas river, thence up said creek, or fork to its source; thence westwardly to a point on the Camarone river, opposite the mouth of Buffalo creek; thence due north to the Arkansas river; thence down the same to the beginning, shall be, and is hereby, set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the tribes who are parties to this treaty, and of such other friendly tribes as they may from time to time agree to admit among them, and that no white person, except officers, agents and employes of the Government, shall go upon or settle within the country embraced within said limits, unless formerly admitted and incorporated into some one of the tribes lawfully residing there, according to its laws and usages; provided, however, that said Indians shall not be required to settle upon said reservation until such time as the United States shall have extinguished all claims of title thereto on the part of other Indians, so that the Indians patries hereto may live thereon at peace with all other tribes; provided, however, that as soon as practicable, with the assent of said tribe, the President of the United States shall designate for said tribes a reservation, no part of which shall be within the State of Kansas, and cause them as soon as practicable to remove to and settle thereon, but no such reservation shall be designated upon any reserve belonging to any other Indian tribes without their consent.

The Indians parties hereto, on their part, expressly agree to remove to and accept as their permanent home the country embraced within said limits whenever directed so to do by the President of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of this treaty, and that they will not go from said country for hunting or other purposes without the consent in writing of their agent or other authorized person, such written consent in all cases specifying the purposes for which such leave is granted, and shall be borne with them upon their excursions as evidence that they are rightfully away from their reservation, and shall be respected by all officers, employes, and citizens of the United States as their sufficient safeguard and protection against injury or damage to person or property by any and all persons whomsoever.

It is further agreed by the Indians parties hereto that when absent from their reservation they will refrain from the commission of any depredations or injuries to the person or property of all persons sustaining friendly relations with the Government of the United States; that they will not, while so absent, encamp by day or night within ten miles of any of the main traveled routes or roads through the country to which they go, or of the military posts, towns, or villages therein, without the consent of the commanders of such military posts, or of the civil authorities of such towns or villages; and that thenceforth they will, and do hereby, Sig. 22.

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