202 TREATY WITH THE KICKAPOOS. 1819. Pemoatam, Sawkeema, Little Thunder, by the White Elk, Wawpeepoaw, Keetatta, Paneessa, Tecko, Pawkonasheeno, Weesoetee, Ankwiskkaw, Meekasaw, Sbekoan, Neekawnakoa, Pasheeto, Pacan, by Petshekosheek, Wawpackeshaw, Wawpeekonyaw, Awwatshee, Peckoneea, Mawntoho, Anckoaw, Keetshay. Namattsheekeeaw, Signed, sealed, and delivered, in presence of the following witnesses: Pascal Cerre, Secretary to the Commissioners. Jacques Mette, Interpreter. Ninian Edwards, John Dew, Thornton Peeples, Tillery Merrick, Dag D. Smith, Isaac A. Douglass, Edmund Randle, Palemon H. Wenchester, N. Buckmaster, Thomas Harcens, Henry Head, John Wilson, Joseph Doer, Elbert Perry, Joseph Remington, J. L. Barton, David Roach, William Head, John Lee Williams, Wm. W. Hickman, Jacob Prickett, James Watt, Joseph B. Lewis, J cna. H. Pugh, William P. M*Kee, Stephen Johnson, Nathan Clampet, Reuben Hopkins, Joseph Newman. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. A T R E A T Y Aug. 30, 1819. Made and concluded by Benjamin Parke, a commissioner on the
part if the United States of America, tf the one part, and the
May 10, 1820. Chi?, Warriors, and Head Jllen, of the tribe of Iiickapoos if the ermilion, of the other part. Kickapooscadc ART. 1. The Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said tribe, all their lands agree to cede, and hereby relinquish, to the United States, all the lands ';‘c'h° W"b”h· which the said tribe has heretofore possessed, or which they may right- ` fully claim, on the Wabash,river, or any of its waters. Boundaries 0,- Ama 2. And to the end that the United States may be enabled to the cession. fix with the other Indian tribes a boundary between their respective claims, the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said tribe, do hereby declare, that their rightful] claim is as follows, viz: beginning at the northwest corner of the Vincennes tract; thence, westwardly, by the boundary established by a treaty with the Piankeshaws, on the thirtieth day of December, eighteen hundred and five, to the dividing ridge between the waters of the Embarras and the Little Wabash; thence, by the said ridge, to the source of the Vermilion river; thence, by the same ridge, to the head of Pine creek; thence, by the said creek, to the Wabash river; thence, by the said river, to the mouth of the Vermilion river, and thence by the Vermilion, and the boundary heretofore established, to the place of beginning. Kickapoos ,_,_ ART. 3. The said Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said tribe, linguish an- agree to relinquish, and they do hereby exonerate and discharge the n““Y °f$l°0°· United States from, the annuity of one thousand dollars, to which they C,,,,,;,],,,.,,,;,,,, are HOW entitled. In consideration whereof; and of the cession hereby for session. made, the United States agree to pay the said tribe two thousand dollars annually, in specie, for ten years; which, together with three thousand dollars now delivered, is to be considered a full compensation for the cession hereby made, as also of all annuities, or other claims, of the said tribe against the United States, by virtue of any treaty with the said United States.
