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328 TREATY WITH THE SACS, ETC. 1830. their hands, at Council Camp, on J ames’ fork of White River, in the State of Missouri, this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. GEORGE VASHON, U. S. Ind. Agent. Signed in presence of James Conner, Delaware Interpr. Anthy. Shane, Shawanee Interpr. Wm. Anderson, principal Chief, George Guirty, Capt. Paterson, 2nd Chief, Capt. Beaver, Pcoshics, or the Cat, Naunotetauxren, Capt. Suwaunock, Whiteman, Little Jack, Jonny Quick, Capt. Pipe, John Gray, Big Island. These last six Chiefs and Warriors having been deputed to examine the Country, have approved of it, and signed their names at Council Camp in the fork of the Kansas and Missouri river, on the 19th October 1829. Nauocheeaupauc, Sam Street, Nungailautone, Aupaneek, James Gray, Outhteekawshaweat. In presence of Anthy. Shane, Interpr. James Conner, Interpr. Baptiste Peoria, Interpr. To the Indian names are nubjnined marks. I hereby certify the above to be a true copy from the original in my possession. GEO. VASHON, U. S. Ind. Agent. Indian Agency, near Kansas River, 24th October, 1829. ARTICLES OF A TREATY July 15, 1830. Made and concluded by VWlliam Clark Szqnerintenrlent mf Indian

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Feb. 24, 1831.’ egt. Infantry, Commissioners on behalf of the United States on the one part, and the undersigned Deputations of the Con- {xevderated Tribes of the Sacs and Foxes ; the rlkdctwnh-Kanton, cthpezcoota, Wczhpeton and Sissetong Bands or Tribes of Sioux ; the Omahas, Ioways, Ottoes and Missourias on the other part. Tum said Tribes being anxious to remove all causes which may hereafter create any unfriendly feeling between them, and being also anxious to provide other sources for supplying their wants besides those of hunting, which they are sensible must soon entirly fail them; agree with the United States on the following Articles. Cession of Anrronn I. The said Tribes cede and relinquish to the United States lands. forever all their right and title to the lands lying within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the upper fork of the Demoine River, and passing the sources of the Little Sioux, and Floyds Rivers, to the fork of the first creek which falls into the Big Sioux or Calumet on the east side; thence, down said creek, and Calumet River to the Missouri River; thence down said Missouri River to the Missouri State line, above the Kansas; thence along said line to the north west corner of the said State, thence to the high lands between the waters falling into