Treaty with The Kickapoo
October 24, 1832
Articles of a treaty made and entered into at Castor Hill,
in the county of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, this
twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-two, between William Clark, Frank J. Allen, and Nathan
Kouns, Commissioners on the part of the United States, of
the one part, and the Chiefs, Warriors, and Counsellors of
the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, on behalf of said tribe, on
the other part.
Article I.
The Kickapoo tribe of Indians, in consideration of the stipulations
hereinafter made, do hereby cede to the United States, the
lands assigned to them by the treaty of Edwardsville, and
concluded at St. Louis, the nineteenth day of July, eighteen
hundred and twenty [two] and all other claims to lands within
the State of Missouri.
Article II.
The United States will provide for the Kickapoo tribe, a
country to reside in, southwest of the Missouri river, as
their permanent place of residence as long as they remain
a tribe. And whereas, the said Kickapoo tribe are now willing
to remove on the following conditions, from the country ceded
on Osage river, in the State of Missouri, to the country selected
on the Missouri river, north of lands which have been assigned
to the Delawares; it is hereby agreed that the country within
the following boundaries shall be assigned, conveyed, and
forever secured, and is hereby so assigned, conveyed, and
secured by the United States to the said Kickapoo tribe, as
their permanent residence, viz: Beginning on the Delaware
line, six miles westwardly of Fort Leavenworth, thence with
the Delaware line westwardly sixty miles, thence north twenty
miles, thence in a direct line to the west bank of the Missouri,
at a point twenty-six miles north of Fort Leavenworth, thence
down the west bank of the Missouri river, to a point six miles
nearly northwest of Fort Leavenworth, and thence to the beginning.
Article III.
In consideration of the cession contained in the first article,
the United States agree to pay to the Kickapoo tribe, within
one year after the ratification of this treaty, an annuity
for one year of eighteen thousand dollars; twelve thousand
dollars of which, at the urgent request of said Indians, shall
be placed in the hands of the superintendent of Indian affairs
at St. Louis, and be by him applied to the payment of the
debts of the said tribe, agreeably to a schedule to be furnished
by them to the said superintendent, stating as far as practicable,
for what contracted, and to whom due; and the said superintendent
shall, as soon as possible, after the said money comes into
his hands, pay it over in a just apportionment, agreeably
to their respective claims, to the creditors of the said tribe,
as specified in the schedule furnished him. And should any
balance remain in his hands after said apportionment and payment,
it shall be by him paid over to the said Kickapoo tribe, for
their use and benefit.
Article IV.
The United States further agree to pay to the Kickapoo tribe,
an annuity of five thousand dollars per annum, in merchandize,
at its cost in St. Louis, or in money, at their option, for
nineteen successive years, commencing with the second year
after the ratification of this treaty.
Article V.
The United States will pay one thousand dollars annually
for five successive years, for the support of a blacksmith
and strikers; purchase of iron, steel, tools, . for
the benefit of said tribe, on the lands hereby assigned them.
Article VI.
The United States agree to pay thirty-seven hundred dollars,
for the erection of a mill and a church, for the use of said
tribe, on the aforesaid lands.
Article VII.
The United States will pay five hundred dollars per annum,
for ten successive years, for the support of a school, purchase
of books, . for the benefit of said Kickapoo tribe on
the lands herein ceded to them.
Article VIII.
The United States agree to pay three thousand dollars for
farming utensils, when such utensils may be required by said
tribe, on their land.
Article IX.
The United States will pay four thousand dollars for labour
and improvements on the lands herein ceded said Kickapoos.
Article X.
The United States agree to pay four thousand dollars in cattle,
hogs, and such other stock as may be required by the said
tribe; to be also delivered on their land.
Article XI.
There shall be paid in merchandise and cash, to the Kickapoos
now present, for the use and benefit of their tribe, six thousand
dollars, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged; which
amount, together with the several stipulations contained in
the preceding articles, shall be considered as a full compensation
for the cession herein made by said Kickapoo tribe. The United
States will furnish said Indians with some assistance when
removing to the lands hereby assigned them, and supply them
with one year's provisions after their arrival on said
lands.
Article XII.
The United States agree to run and mark out the boundary
lines of the lands hereby ceded to the said tribe, within
three years from the date of the ratification of this treaty.
Article XIII.
The said Indians agree to remove with as little delay as
possible, to the land hereby ceded to them.
Article XIV.
The United States agree, at the particular request of the
Kickapoos, that a deputation of their tribe shall be sent,
with one or two of the commissioners, to view the lands hereby
ceded to them, which deputation and commissioners jointly
agreeing, shall have power to alter the boundary lines so
as to make a selection of a body of land not exceeding twelve
hundred square miles, adjoining to, and lying between the
Big Nemaha river and the Delaware lands, and of changing the
lines of the land hereby ceded in the second article of this
treaty, not exceeding half the front on the Missouri between
the mouth of Big Nemaha and Fort Leavenworth, so as to include
a suitable site for a mill seat, should it be desired by said
tribe and appear necessary to the commissioners. And it is
understood, that if the commissioners, on viewing the land
ceded in the second article of this treaty, shall find it
of good quality, and sufficient for said tribe, then the aforesaid
second article to be as binding on the contracting parties,
as if this article had not been inserted.
Article XV.
This treaty to be binding when ratified by the President
and Senate of the United States.
In testimony whereof, the commissioners aforesaid, and the
undersigned chiefs, warriors and counsellors aforesaid, have
hereunto subscribed their hands and affixed their seals, this
twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord eighteen
hundred and thirty-two, and of the independence of the United
States, the fifty-seventh.
- Wm. Clark, [L. S.]
- Frank J. Allen, [L. S.]
- Nathan Kouns, [L. S.]
- Pa-sha-cha-hah, jumping fish, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ka-ana-kuck, the prophet, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pemo-quoi-ga, rolling thunder, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pa-ana-wah-ha, elk shedding his hair, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kick-a-poo-hor, Kickapoo, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ma-she-nah, elk, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ma-cuta-we-she-kah, black fisher, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Wah-co-haw, grey fox, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pah-ta-kah-quoi, striking woman, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kitch-e-mah-quoi, big bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ata-noi-tucka, gobling turkey, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kish-coe, guardian to Indians, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ka-te-wah, bald eagle, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Na-poi-teck, son of prophet, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Na-na-co-wah, the bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pe-sha-ka-nah, the bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ah-nuck-quet-ta, the cloud, or black thunder, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Note-ta-noi, wind, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ma-cutta-mah-qui, black loon, his x mark, [L. S.]
Signed in presence of -
- James Kemmly, secretary,
- Meriwether Lewis Clark, lieutenant, Sixth Infantry,
- Geo. Maguire, Indian Department,
- A. Shane, United States interpreter,
- William Marshall,
- Jacques Mette, United States interpreter,
- Pierre Cadue, interpreter, his x mark.
Nov. 26, 1832.
Supplemental article to the treaty with the Kickapoo tribe
of Indians, of the twenty-fourth October, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-two.
The undersigned, commissioners, on the part of the United
States, and a deputation of Kickapoos, on the part of the
Kickapoo tribe of Indians, having visited the lands assigned
to the said tribe by the second article of a treaty with the
said tribe, concluded at Castor Hill, in the county of Saint
Louis, and State of Missouri, on the twenty-fourth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and by
authority of the powers vested in the said commissioners,
and the said deputation, by the fourteenth article of the
aforesaid treaty, have agreed that the boundary lines of the
lands assigned to the Kickapoos, shall begin on the Delaware
line, where said line crosses the left branch of Salt creek,
thence down said creek to the Missouri river, thence up the
Missouri river thirty miles when measured on a straight line,
thence westwardly to a point twenty miles from the Delaware
line, so as to include in the lands assigned the Kickapoos,
at least twelve hundred square miles.
Done at fort Leavenworth, this twenty-sixth day of November,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
- Nathan Kouns, [L. S.]
- Frank J. Allen, [L. S.]
- Nam-a-co-wa-ha, the bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pe-sha-ka-nah, the bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Na-poi-haw, the man asleep, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pam-a-saw, or walker, his x mark. [L. S.]
Signed and sealed in presence of -
- James Kemmly, secretary,
- Wm. N. Wickliffe, Captain Sixth Infantry,
- J. Freeman, Lieutenant Sixth Infantry,
- Winslow Turner,
- And. L. Hughes, United States Indian agent.
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