Treaty with The Chickasaw
October 22, 1832
Articles supplementary to, and explanatory of, a treaty
which was entered into on the 20th instant, between General
John Coffee on the part of the United States, and the whole
Chickasaw nation in General Council assembled.
THE fourth article of the treaty to which this is a supplement,
provides that each Chickasaw family, shall have a tract of
land, reserved for the use of the family, to live on and occupy,
so long as the nation resides in the country where they now
are. And the fifth article of the treaty provides that each
family or individual shall be paid for their improvements,
and the value of their cleared lands, when the nation shall
determine to remove and leave the said reserved tracts of
land. It is now proposed and agreed to, that no family or
person of the Chickasaw nation, who shall or may have tracts
of land, reserved for their residence while here, shall ever
be permitted to lease any of said land, to any person whatsoever,
nor shall they be permitted to rent any of said land, to any
person, either white, red, or black, or mixed blood of either.
As the great object of the nation is to preserve the land,
and timber, for the benefit of posterity, provided the nation
shall continue to live here, and if they shall at any time
determine to remove and sell the land, it will be more valuable,
and will sell for more money, for the benefit of the nation,
if the land and timber be preserved.
It is also expressly declared by the nation, that, whenever
the nation shall determine to remove from their present country,
that every tract of land so reserved in the nation, shall
be given up and sold for the benefit of the nation. And no
individual or family shall have any right to retain any of
such reserved tracts of land, for their own use, any longer
than the nation may remain in the country where they now are.
As the reserve tracts of land above alluded to, will be the
first choice of land in the nation, it is determined that
the minimum price of all the reserved tracts, shall be three
dollars an acre, until the nation may determine to reduce
the price, and then they will notify the President, of their
wishes, and the price to which they desire to reduce it.
The Chiefs still express fears that combinations may be formed
at the public sales, where their reserved tracts of land shall
be offered for sale, and that they may not be sold so high
as they might be sold, by judicious agents at private sale.
They therefore suggest the propriety of the President determining
on some judicious mode of selling the reserves at private
sale.
It is therefore agreed that the suggestion be submitted to
the President, and if he and the Chiefs can agree on a plan
of a sale, different from the one proposed in the treaty,
to which this is a supplement, and which shall be approved
of by both parties, then they may enter into such agreement
and the President shall then be governed by the same, in the
sale of the reserved tracts of land, whenever they may be
offered for sale.
In the provisions of the fourth article of the treaty to
which this is a supplement, for reserves to young men who
have no families, it expresses that each young man, who is
twenty-one years of age, shall have a reserve. But as the
Indians mature earlier than white men, and generally marry
younger, it is determined to extend a reserve, to each young
man who is seventeen years of age. And as there are some orphan
girls in the nation or whose families do not provide for them,
and also some widows in the same situation, it is determined
to allow to each of them a reservation of one section, on
the same terms and conditions in all respects, with the other
reservations for the nation generally, and to be allowed to
the same ages, as to young men.
Colbert Moore and family have always lived in the Chickasaw
nation, and he requests the liberty to continue with the nation.
The Chiefs and nation agree to his request, and they also
agree to allow him and his family a reserve tract of land
to live on and occupy in the same manner, and on the same
terms and conditions as is provided for the Chickasaw families,
in the nation generally, during his good behavior.
The Chiefs of the nation represent that they in behalf of
the nation gave a bond to James Colbert for a debt due to
him, of eighteen hundred and eleven dollars, ninety-three
and three fourth cents principal, that James Colbert transferred
said note to Robert Gordon and that said note, and the interest
thereon is yet due and unpaid, and the said Robert Gordon
has proposed to take a section of land for said note, and
interest up to this date. It is therefore agreed by the nation
to grant him a section of land, to be taken any where in the
nation, so as not to interfere with any reserve which has
been provided as a residence for the Chickasaws, which shall
be in full for said note and interest.
The Treaty, to which this is a supplement provides that there
shall be offices kept some where central in the nation, at
such place as the President shall determine, for transacting
the business of the nation in selling their lands. It is now
agreed to by the nation, that the President may select a section
of land, or four quarter sections adjoining, at such place
as he may determine agreeably to that provision of the Treaty,
to establish the said offices on, and for all the necessary
uses thereto attached, and he is permitted to improve the
said tract of land in any manner, whatsoever, but when it
shall cease to be used for the purposes, for which it is set
apart--for offices .--then the same shall be sold under
the direction of the President--and the proceeds thereof shall
be paid to the Chickasaw nation, after deducting therefrom
the value of all the improvements on the land, which value
shall be assessed by the President, and in no case shall it
exceed one half the sale of the land.
The Chickasaw nation request the government to grant them
a cross mail route through the nation as follows, one to pass
from Tuscumbia in Alabama, by the Agency, and by the place
to be selected for the offices to be kept and to Rankin in
Mississippi on horse back, once a week each way. The other
to run from Memphis in Tennessee, by the offices and to the
Cotton Gin in Mississippi--to pass once a week each way. They
conceive these mails would be useful to the nation, and indispensable
to the carrying on the business of the nation when the offices
are established, but they would respectfully solicit the mails
to be started as soon as possible, to open the avenues of
information into their country.
John Donley has long been known in this nation as a mail
carrier; he rode on the mails through our nation when a boy
and for many years after he was grown; we think he understands
that business as well, if not better than any other man--and
we should prefer him to carry our mails to any other person--and
if he is given the contract, the nation will set apart a section
of land for his use while we remain here in this country,
which section he may select with the advice of the Chiefs
any where that suits him best, so as not to interfere with
any of the reserves, and he may use it in any manner to live
on, or make such improvements as may be necessary for keeping
his horses, or to raise forage for them. But when the nation
shall move away and leave this country this tract of land
must be sold for the benefit of the nation, in the same manner
that the reserve tracts are sold, and he is not to
claim of the nation any pay for improving said tract of land.
In witness of all and every thing herein determined between
the United States and the whole Chickasaw nation, in general
council assembled, the parties have hereunto set their hands
and seals at the council house, on Pontitock creek, in the
Chickasaw nation, on this twenty-second day of October one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
- Jno. Coffee
- Ish-te-ho-to-pa, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Tish-o-min-go, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Levi Colbert, his x mark, [L. S.]
- George Colbert, his x mark, [L. S.]
- William McGilvery, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Samuel Sely, his x mark, [L. S.]
- To-pul-kah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Isaac Albertson, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Im-mubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pis-ta-la-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ish-tim-o-lut-ka, his x mark, [L. S.]
- James Brown, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Im-ma-hoo-lo-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ish-ta-ha-cha, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Lah-fin-hubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Shop-pow-we, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Nin-uck-ah-umba, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Im-mah-hoo-lo-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Il-lup-pah-umba, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pitman Colbert, [L. S.]
- Con-nush-koish-kah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- James Wolf, [L. S.]
- Bah-ha-kah-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- E-bah-kah-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Captain Thompson, his x mark, [L. S.]
- New-berry, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Bah-me-hah-tubbe, his x mark,[L. S.]
- John Lewis, his x mark, [L. S.]
- I-yah-hou-tubbe, his mark, [L. S.]
- Tok-holth-la-chah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Oke-lah-nah-nubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Im-me-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- In-kah-yea, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ah-shah-cubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Im-mah-ho-bah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Fit-chah-ple, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Unte-mi-ah-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Oke-lah-hin-lubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- John Glover, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Bah-me-hubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ah-to-ko-wah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Hush-tah-tah-hubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Un-ti-ha-kah-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Yum-me-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Oh-ha-cubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ah-fah-mah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ah-take-in-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Tah-ha-cubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kin-hoi-cha, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ish-te-ah-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Chick-ah-shah-nan-ubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Chee-wut-ta-ha, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Fo-lut-ta-chah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- No-wo-ko, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Win-in-a-pa, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Oke-lah-shah-cubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ish-ta-ki-yu-ka-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Mah-ta-ko-shubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Tom-ah-chich-ah, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ehi-o-che-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Nuck-sho-pubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Fah-lah-mo-tubbe, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Co-chub-be, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Thomas Sely, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Oke-lah-sha-pi-a, his x mark, [L. S.]
Signed and sealed in presence of--
- Ben. Reynolds, Indian agent,
- John L. Allen, subagent,
- Nath. Anderson, secretary to commissioner,
- Benjamin Love, United States interpreter,
- Robt. Gordon, of Mississippi,
- George Wightman,
- John Donley,
- D. S. Parrish,
- S. Daggett, of Mississippi,
- Wm. A. Clurm, of Mississippi,
- G. W. Long,
- W. D. King,
- John H. McKennie.
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