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Treaty Between the United States and the Menominee Indians Signed at St. Louis, 3/30/1817

“The Parties being desirous of reestablishing Peace and Friendship between the United States and the said Tribe or Nation …” 

The Menominee had been allied with the British during the War of 1812.

File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 86: Menominee - St. Louis, March 30, 1817, 1789 - 1869

Series: Indian Treaties, 1789 - 1869

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006

Transcription:

X2 [Written on the top]

A Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and concluded by and between William

Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners on the part

and behalf of the United States of America, of the one part, and the undersigned

Chiefs and Warriors deputed by the Menomenee Tribe or Nation of Indians,

on the part and behalf of their said Tribe or Nation of the other part.

The Parties being desirous of reestablishing Peace and Friendship between the

United States and the said Tribe or Nation, and of being placed in all things

and in every respect the same footing upon which they stood before the

late war have agreed to the following Articles.

Art. Ist; Every injury or act of hostility by one or either of the contracting parties

against the other, shall be mutually forgiven and forgot.

Art. IInd; There shall be perpetual Peace and Friendship between all the Citizens of the

United States and all the individuals composing the said Menonemee Tribe or Nation.

Art. IIIrd; The undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, on the part and behalf of their said

Tribe or Nation, do by these Presents, confirm to the United States all and every

cession of land heretofore made by their Tribe or Nation to the British, French or

Spanish Government, within the limits of the United States or their Territories;

and also all and every Treaty , contract and Agreement heretofore concluded

between the said United States and the said Tribe or Nation.

Art. IVth; The contracting parties do hereby agree, promise and oblige themselves reciprocally,

to deliver up all prisoners now in their hands (by what means soever the same

may have come into their possession) to the Officer Commanding at Prairie

du Chein to be by him restored to their respective parties hereto, as soon as it

may be practicable

Art. Vth; The undersigned Chiefs and Warriors as aforesaid for themselves and those

they represent; do hereby acknowledge themselves to be under the protection of

the United States and of no other Nation Power of Sovereign whatsoever.

In Witness whereof, the Commissioners aforesaid and undersigned

Chiefs and Warriors as aforesaid have hereunto subscribed their names

and affixed their seals this thirtieth day of March in the year

of

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of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and of the

Independence of the United States the Forty First.

Done at St. Louis in the presence of

[left column]

[signed]  R. Wash, Secty to the }

      Commissioners                         }

[signed]  R. Graham

     U.S. I. A. for Illinois Terty

[signed]  T. Harrison

[signed]  Nimrod H. Moore

[signed]  S. Ganntt

     Lieut. U.S. Army

[signed]  CM Price

[signed]  Richard T. McKenney

[signed]  Amos Kibbe

[signed]  Nathaniel Mills

[signed]  Sam Solomon

[right column]

[signed]  William Clark      [seal]

[signed]  Ninian Edwards   [seal]

[signed]  Aug. Chouteau     [seal]

To-wa-na-pee

    Roaring Thunder [his x mark]     [seal]

Wee-Kay

    The Calumet Eagle [his x mark]      [seal]

Mue-quo-mo-ta

     The Fat of the Bear [his x mark]     [seal]

Wa-ca-quon  or

     Sho-min [his x mark]     [seal]

War-ba-no

     The Dawn [his x mark]     [seal]

In-e–mi-kee

      Thunderer [his x mark]     [seal]

Le-bar-na-co

     The Bear [his x mark]     [seal]

Kar-Kun-de-go [his x mark]     [seal]

Sha-Sha-ma-nee

     The Elk [his x mark]     [seal]

Pe-no-name

     The Running Wolf [his x mark]     [seal]

Survey of Ga gi ga bi tung (Jack Doud) and his wife, of the Lac du Flambeau Tribe, 5/10/1922. 

(G.A.R. = Grand Army of the Republic = Organization for veterans of Union forces during the U.S. Civil War.) 

Series: Surveys of Indian Industry, 1920 - 1922

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999

Image description: Portion of photo showing two women and a man standing outside a tall house made of wood. They are wearing Western style clothing, but one woman and the man are also wearing (possibly traditional?) headdresses or hats.

Transcription:

Lac du Flambeau Agency, Wisconsin.

Ga gi ga bi tung (Jack Doud) G.A.R. Veteran/

Photo

Allotment No. 682

Age 78

Degree Full

Status Comp.

Family Wife

Flambeau Lake…. 2 room house..5 windows, 2 doors.

Log barn 20'x14’, small shed, summer tepee.

Bob sleigh, light bob, canoe.

5 acres cleared. Large garden, 2 apple trees.

1844  Husband   Is active for his age. Cuts wood.

1887  Wife    Is always busy and dirty. Makes snowshoes, reed mats, braided rag rugs, plants garden and cultivates it. Waits on her husband - is devoted to him.

Squalid home but very happy. Receive a Civil War pension. Wife had a fatty tumor removed and made a good recovery.

Reimbursable Funds…..

Date of Survey….. May 10, 1922.

Land Allotment for Timber Woman, a member of the Cheyenne or Arapaho tribes, 5/6/1892

File Unit: T-83 Timber Woman, 1902 - 1981

Series: Individual Indian Money (IIM) Account Files, 1902 - 1981

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999

Transcription: 

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________________

The United States of America,

To all to who these Presents shall come, GREETING ;

Whereas, There has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a

schedule of allotments of land, dated March 30, 1892, from the Commissioner

of Indian Affairs, approved by the Secretary of the Interior June 1, 1892,

whereby it appears that under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved February 8, 1887,

(24 Stats., 388,) as amended by the Act of Congress of March 3, 1891, (26 Slal 989)

Timber Woman, an Indian of

the Cheyenne or Arapahoe tribe or band, has been allotted the

following described land, viz:

The South East quarter or section twenty eight in Township sixteen North of Range eight West of Indian Meridian, Oklahoma Territory, Containing one hundred and sixty acres

Now, Know Ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the premises and in accordance with the provisions or the fifth section of said Act of Congress of the 8th February, 1887, HEREBY DECLARES that it does and will hold the land thus allotted (subject to all the restrictions and conditions contained in said fifth section) for the period of twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the said Timber Woman, or in case of her decease, for the sole use of her heirs, according to the laws of the State or Territory where such land is located, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to said Indian, or her heirs, as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever: Provided, That the President of the United States may, in his discretion, extend the said period.

In Testimony Whereof, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.

[circular red seal]

Given under my hand at the City of Washington, this sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth

By the President: Benjamin Harrison

By M.McKean, Secretary.

I.R.Conwell

Recorder of the General Land Office.

ad interim

Recorded Vol 13, p. 182

(17293–20 M.) 6–400