In the presence of Peter Jones, Secretary to the Commissioner. B. Park, one of the Judges of the Indiana Territory. Thomas Randolph, Attorney-general of Indiana. Will: Jones, of Vincennes. Saml. W. Davis, Lt. Col. Ohio State. Shadrach Bond, Jr. of the Illinois Territory. Joseph Barron, Sworn Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. A TREATY Betwen the United States of America and the Kickapoo tribe of Indians. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, governor of the Indiana territory and commissioner plenipotentiary of the United States for treating with the Indian tribes north west of the Ohio, and the Sachems and war chiefs of the Kickapoo tribe, on the part of said tribe, have agreed on the following articles, which, when ratified by the President, by and with the advice of the Senate, shall be binding on said parties. ART. 1. The ninth article of the treaty concluded at Fort Wayne on the thirtieth of September last, and the cession it containes is hereby agreed to by the Kickapoos, and a permanent additional annuity of four hundred dollars, and goods to the amount of eight hundred dollars, now delivered, is to be considered as a full compensation for the said cession. ART. 2. The said tribe further agrees to cede to the United States all that tract of land which lies between the tract above ceded, the Wabash, the Vermillion river, and a line to be drawn from the North corner of the said ceded tract, so as to strike the Vermilion river at the distance of twenty miles in a direct line from its mouth. For this cession a further annuity of one hundred dollars, and the sum of seven hundred dollars in goods now delivered, is considered as a full compensation. But if the Miamies should not be willing to sanction the latter cession, and the United States should not think proper to take possession of the land without their consent, they shall be released from the obligation to pay the additional annuity of one hundred dollars. ART. 3. The stipulations contained in the treaty of Greenville, relatively to the manner of paying the annuity and of the right of the Indians to hunt upon the land, shall apply to the annuity granted and the land ceded by the present treaty. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the said William Henry Harrison, and the Sachems and head war chiefs of the said tribe, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals, this ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and nine. (Signed) WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. Joe Renard, Nemahson, or a Man on his Wakoah, or Fox Hair, feet, Knoshania, or the Otter, Nonoah, or a Child at the breast, Signed in presence of (The word seven in the second article being written upon an erasure.) Peter Jones, Secretary to the Commissioner. Geo. Wallace, Jun. Justice of Peace, Kentucky. Jno. Gibson, Secretary Ind. Ter. Will. Jones, Justice of Peace. E. Stout, Justice of Peace. Chas. Smith, of Vincennes. Hyacinthe Lasselle, of Vincennes. Domq. Lacroix, of Vincennes. Joseph Barron, Interpreter. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. Dec. 9, 1809. March 5, 1810. Kickapoos agree to second article of treaty of Sept. 30, 1809. Cession to the United States. Manner of paying annuity. July 22, 1814. Ratified, Dec. 13, 1814. Proclamation, Dec. 21, 1814. Peace given to the Miami na. tion, &c. Aid to be given to U. S. in the war with Great Britain. Protection of U. S. acknow ledged. U. S. will establish the A TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP Between the United States of America, and the tribes of Indians called the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoese, Senecas, and Miamies. THE said United States of America, by William Henry Harrison, late a major general in the army of the United States, and Lewis Cass, governor of the Michigan territory, duly authorised and appointed commissioners for the purpose, and the said tribes, by their head men, chiefs, and warriors, assembled at Greenville, in the state of Ohio, have agreed to the following articles, which, when ratified by the president of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, shall be binding upon them and the said tribes. ARTICLE I. The United States and the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoese, and Senecas, give peace to the Miamie nation of Indians, formerly designated as the Miamie Eel River and Weea tribes; they extend this indulgence also to the bands of the Putawatimies, which adhere to the Grand Sachem Tobinipee, and to the chief Onoxa, to the Ottawas of Blanchard's creek, who have attached themselves to the Shawanoese tribe, and to such of the said tribe as adhere to the chief called the Wing, in the neighborhood of Detroit, and to the Kickapoos, under the direction of their chiefs who sign this treaty. ARTICLE II. The tribes and bands abovementioned, engage to give their aid to the United States in prosecuting the war against Great-Britain, and such of the Indian tribes as still continue hostile; and to make no peace with either without the consent of the United States. The assistance herein stipulated for, is to consist of such a number of their warriors from each tribe, as the president of the United States, or any officer having his authority therefor, may require. ARTICLE III. The Wyandot tribe, and the Senecas of Sandusky and Stony Creek, the Delaware and Shawanoese tribes, who have preserved their fidelity to the United States throughout the war, again acknowledge themselves under the protection of the said states, and of no other power whatever; and agree to aid the United States, in the manner stipulated for in the former article, and to make no peace but with the consent of the said states. ARTICLE IV. In the event of a faithful performance of the conditions of this treaty, the United States will confirm and establish all the boundaries between boundaries, &c. their lands and those of the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoese and Miamies, as they existed previously to the commencement of the war. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the said commissioners and the said head men, chiefs, and warriors, of the beforementioned tribes of Indians, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals. Done at Greenville, in the state of Ohio, this twenty-second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and of the Independence of the United States, the thirtyninth. Delawares. Kick-to-he-nina, or capt. Anderson, Le-mot-te-nuck-ques, or James Nan tioke, La-o-pon-nichle, or Bauber, Jo-on-queake, or John Queake, Neach-corningd, Montgomery Montaine, Captain Buck, Hop-hoo-que, or moles, Shawanoes. Cut-e-we-cus-a, or black hoof, Tam-e-ne-tha, or butter, Pi-a-se-ka, or wolf, Pom-tha, or walker, Sha-mon-e-tho, or snake, Pem-tha-ta, or turkey flying by, We-tha-wak-a-sik-a, or yellow water, Que-ta-wah, or sinking, So-kut-che-mah, or frozen, Tog-won, En-dosque-e-runt, or John Harris, Cun-tah-ten-tuh-wa, or big turtle, Ron-on-nesse, or wiping stick, Co-rach-coon-ke, or reflection, or civil John, Coon-au-ta-nah-coo, See-is-ta-he, (black) Too-tee-an-dee, or Thomas Brand, Hane-use-wa, Ut-ta-wun-tus, Lut-au-ques-on, Peoon, Miamies. La-passiere, or Ashe-non-quah, Na-to-wee-sa, Me-she-ke-le-a-ta, or the big man, Sa-na-mah-hon-ga, or stone eater, Ne-she-peh-tah, or double tooth, Wa-pe-pe-cheka, Chin-go-me-ga-eboe, or owl, Ke-we-se-kong, or circular travelling, Wa-pa-sa-ba-nah, or white racoon, Che-ke-me-li-ne, or turtle's brother, Che-que-ah, or poor racoon, a Wea, or little eyes, Sho-wi-lin-ge-shua, or open hand. Shaw-a-noe, Ma-uan-sa, or young wolf, Potawatamies. Too-pin-ne-pe, Wy-ne-pu-ech-sika, or corn stalk, O-nox-a, or five medals, In presence of (the words "and the Wyandots, Delawares, Shawanoese, and Senecas," interlined in the first article before signing.) James Dill, Secretary to the commissioners. Jno. Johnston, Indian Agent. B. F. Stickney, Indian Agent. James J. Nisbet, Associate Judge of Court of Common Pleas, Preble county. Thos. G. Gibson. Antoine Boindi, William Walker, William Conner, J. Bte. Chandonnai, Stephen Reeddeed, James Peltier, Joseph Bertrand, Sworn Interpreters. Thomas Ramsey, captain 1st rifle regiment. John Conner. John Riddle, col. 1st regiment Ohio militia. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT AND CAPITULATION, Made and concluded this ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, between major general Andrew Jackson, on behalf of the President of the United States of America, and the chiefs, deputies, and warriors of the Creek Nation. WHEREAS an unprovoked, inhuman, and sanguinary war, waged by the hostile Creeks against the United States, hath been repelled, prosecuted and determined, successfully, on the part of the said States, in conformity with principles of national justice and honorable warfareAnd whereas consideration is due to the rectitude of proceeding dictated by instructions relating to the re-establishment of peace: Be it remembered, that prior to the conquest of that part of the Creek nation hostile to the United States, numberless aggressions had been committed against the peace, the property, and the lives of citizens of the United States, and those of the Creek nation in amity with her, at the mouth of Duck river, Fort Mimms, and elsewhere, contrary to national faith, and the regard due to an article of the treaty concluded at New-York, in the year seventeen hundred ninety, between the two nations: That the United States, previously to the perpetration of such outrages, did, in order to ensure future amity and concord between the Creek nation and the said states, in conformity with the stipulations of former treaties, fulfil, with punctuality and good faith, her engagements to the said nation that more than two-thirds of the whole number of chiefs and warriors of the Creek nation, disregarding the genuine spirit of existing treaties, suffered themselves to be instigated to violations of their national honor, and the respect due to a part of their own nation faithful to the United States and the principles of humanity, by impostures [impostors,] denominating themselves Prophets, and by the duplicity and misrepresentation of foreign emissaries, whose governments are at war, open or understood, with the United States. Wherefore, 1st-The United States demand an equivalent for all expences incurred in prosecuting the war to its termination, by a cession of all the territory belonging to the Creek nation within the territories of the United States, lying west, south, and south-eastwardly, of a line to be run and described by persons duly authorized and appointed by the President of the United States Beginning at a point on the eastern bank of the Coosa river, where the south boundary line of the Cherokee nation crosses the same; running from thence down the said Coosa river with its eastern bank according to its various meanders to a point one mile above the mouth of Cedar creek, at Fort Williams, thence east two miles, thence south two miles, thence west to the eastern bank of the said Coosa river, thence down the eastern bank thereof according to its various meanders to a point opposite the upper end of the great falls, (called by the natives Woetumka,) thence east from a true meridian line to a point due north of the mouth of Ofucshee, thence south by a like meridian line to the mouth of Ofucshee on the south side of the Tallapoosa river, thence up the same, according to its various meanders, to a point where a direct course will cross the same at the distance of ten miles from the mouth thereof, thence a direct line to the mouth of Summochico creek, which empties into the Chatahouchie river on the east side thereof below the Eufaulau town, thence east from a true meridian line to a point which shall intersect the line now dividing the lands claimed by the said Creek nation from those claimed and owned by the state of Georgia: Provided, nevertheless, that where any possession of any chief or warrior of the Creek nation, who shall have been friendly to the United States during the war, and taken an active part therein, shall be within the territory ceded by these articles to the United States, every such person shall be entitled to a reservation of land within the said territory of one mile square, to include his improvements as near the centre thereof as may be, which shall inure to the said chief or warrior, and his descendants, so long as he or they shall continue to occupy the same, who shall be protected by and subject to the laws of the United States; but upon the voluntary abandonment thereof, by such possessor or his descendants, the right of occupancy or possession of said lands shall devolve to the United States, and be identified with the right of property ceded hereby. 2nd-The United States will guarantee to the Creek nation, the integrity of all their territory eastwardly and northwardly of the said line to be run and described as mentioned in the first article. 3d-The United States demand, that the Creek nation abandon all communication, and cease to hold any intercourse with any British or Spanish post, garrison, or town; and that they shall not admit among them, any agent or trader, who shall not derive authority to hold commercial, or other intercourse with them, by licence from the President or authorised agent of the United States. Guaranty of other territory of the Creeks. Intercourse with British or Spanish posts to cease. Establishment 4th-The United States demand an acknowledgment of the right to establish military posts and trading houses, and to open roads within the of military territory, guaranteed to the Creek nation by the second article, and a right to the free navigation of all its waters. 5th-The United States demand, that a surrender be immediately made, of all the persons and property, taken from the citizens of the United States, the friendly part of the Creek nation, the Cherokee, Chickesaw, and Choctaw nations, to the respective owners; and the United States will cause to be immediately restored to the formerly hostile Creeks, all the property taken from them since their submission, either by the United States, or by any Indian nation in amity with the United States, together with all the prisoners taken from them during the war. 6th-The United States demand the caption and surrender of all the prophets and instigators of the war, whether foreigners or natives, who have not submitted to the arms of the United States, and become parties to these articles of capitulation, if ever they shall be found within the territory guaranteed to the Creek nation by the second article. posts. All property taken to be sur rendered. The prophets and instigators given up. of the war to be |