Treaty with The Sauk and Foxes
August 4, 1824
To perpetuate peace and friendship between the United
States and the Sock and Fox tribes or nations of Indians,
and to remove all future cause of dissensions which may arise
from undefined territorial boundaries, the President of the
United States of America, by William Clark, Superintendent
of Indian Affairs, and sole Commissioner specially appointed
for that purpose, of the one part, and the undersigned Chiefs
and Head Men of the Sock and Fox tribes or nations, fully
deputized to act for and in behalf of their said nations,
of the other part, have entered into the following articles
and conditions, viz:
Article 1st.
The Sock and Fox tribes or nations of Indians, by their deputations
in council assembled, do hereby agree, in consideration of
certain sums of money, . to be paid to the said Sock
and Fox tribes, by the Government of the United States, as
hereinafter stipulated, to cede and for ever quit claim, and
do, in behalf of their said tribes or nations, hereby cede,
relinquish, and forever quit claim, unto the United States,
all right, title, interest, and claim, to the lands which
the said Sock and Fox tribes have, or claim, within the limits
of the state of Missouri, which are situated, lying, and being,
between the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and a line running
from the Missouri, at the entrance of Kansas river, north
one hundred miles to the Northwest corner of the state of
Missouri, and from thence east to the Mississippi. It being
understood, that the small tract of land lying between the
rivers Desmoin and the Mississippi, and the section of the
above line between the Mississippi and the Desmoin, is intended
for the use of the half-breeds belonging to the Sock and Fox
nations; they holding it, however, by the same title, and
in the same manner, that other Indian titles are held.
Article 2d.
The Chiefs and Head Men who sign this convention, for themselves
and in behalf of their tribes, do acknowledge the lands east
and south of the lines described in the first article, so
far as the Indians claimed the same, to belong to the United
States, and that none of their tribes shall be permitted to
settle or hunt upon any part of it, after the first day of
January, 1826, without special permission from the Superintendent
of Indian Affairs.
Article 3d.
It is hereby stipulated and agreed, on the part of the United
States, as a full consideration for the claims and lands ceded
by the Sock and Fox tribes in the first article, there shall
be paid to the Sock and Fox natious, within the present year,
one thousand dollars in cash, or merchandize; and in addition
to the annuities stipulated to be paid to the Sock and Fox
tribes by a former treaty, the United States do agree to pay
to the said Sock tribe, five hundred dollars, and to the Fox
tribe five hundred dollars, annually, for the term of ten
succeeding years; and, at the request of the Chiefs of the
said Sock and Fox nations, the Commissioner agrees to pay
to Morice Blondeau, a half Indian of the Fox tribe, the sum
of five hundred dollars, it being a debt due by the said nation
to the aforesaid Blondeaux, for property taken from him during
the late war.
Article 4th.
The United States engage to provide and support a Blacksmith
for the Sock and Fox nations, so long as the President of
the United States may think proper, and to furnish the said
nations with such farming utensils and cattle, and to employ
such persons to aid them in their agriculture, as the President
may deem expedient.
Article 5th.
The annuities stipulated to be paid by the 3d article, are
to be paid either in money, merchandise, provisions, or domestic
animals, at the option of the aforesaid tribes, and when the
said annuities or part thereof is paid in merchandise, it
is to be delivered to them at the first cost of the goods
at St. Louis, free from cost of transportation.
Article 6th.
This treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting
parties so soon as the same shall be ratified by the President
of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate thereof.
In testimony whereof, the said William Clark, commissioner
as aforesaid, and the chiefs and head men of the Sock and
Fox tribes of Indians as aforesaid, have hereunto set their
hands, at Washington City, this fourth day of August, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four.
Socks:
- Pah-sha-pa-ha, or Stubbs, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kah-kee-kai-maik, or All Fish, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Wash-kee-chai, or Crouching Eagle, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kee-o-kuck, or Watchful Fox, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kah-kee-kai-maik, or All Fish, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Sah-col-o-quoit, or Rising Cloud, his x mark, [L. S.]
Foxes:
- Fai-mah, or the Bear, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Ka-pol-e-qua, or White Nosed Fox, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Pea-mash-ka, or the Fox winding his horn, his x mark, [L. S.]
- Kee-sheswa, or the Sun, his x mark, [L. S.]
Witnesses at signing:
- Thomas L. McKenney,
- Law. Taliaferro, Indian agent at St. Peter's,
- G. W. Kennerly, Indian agent,
- A. Baronet Vasques, acting S. I. A. and Int.
- Maurice Blondeau,
- L. T. Honore.
- Jno. W. Johnson,
- Meriwether Lewis Clark,
- Noal Dashnay.
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