TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWAS. 1837. 537 If at the expiration of one or more years the Indians should prefer to receive goods, instead of the nine thousand dollars agreed to be paid to them in money, they shall be at liberty to do so. Or, should they conclude to appropriate a portion of that annuity to the establishment and support of a school or schools among them, this shall be granted them. Arvrrcim 3 The sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be paid P¤Ym¤¤¢ t0 by the United States, to the half-breeds of the Chippewa nation, under h“K'b’°°d"· the direction of the President. It is the wish of the Indians that their two sub-agents Daniel P. Bushnell, and Miles M. Vineyard, superintend the distribution of this money among their haltibreed relations. Anrrcnn 4. The sum of seventy thousand dollars shall be applied to Paymentpf the payment, by the United States, of certain claims against the §l¤3!¤S ¤S¤1¤¤¥ Indians; of which amount twenty-eight thousand dollars shall, at their n mm' request, be paid to Williain A. Aitkin, twenty-five thousand to Lyman M. Warren, and the ballance applied to the liquidation of other just demands against them—·which they acknowledge to be the case with regard to that presented by Hercules L. Dousman, for the sum of live thousand dollars; and they request that it be paid. An·r1cr.n 5. The privilege of hunting, fishing, and gathering the wild Hunting rice, upon the lands, the rivers and the lakes included in the territory ¥’°““d· ceded, is guarantied to the Indians, during the pleasure of the President of the United States. Anrrcnn 6. This treaty shall be obligatory from and after its ratifica- Treaty binding tion by the President and Senate of the United States. Wh"' "‘"6°d· Done at St. Peters in the Territory of Wisconsin the twenty-ninth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty-seven. (Signed) HENRY DODGE, C'om’r. From Leech hire. Chiefs. Ma-ghe-ga-ho, or La Tmppe, Aish-ke-bo-ge-koshe, or Flat Mouth, 0-be-gwa—dans, the Chief of the Earth, `Rache-o-sau-ya, or the Elder Brother. Wa-bose, or the Rabbit, W,,,.,.;,,,.,,_ Che-a-na-quod, or the Big Cloud. Pe-zhe-kins, the Young Buffalo, From Gull lake and Swan river. Chit;/Is. Warriors. Pa-goo-na-kee-zhig, or the Hole in the Wa·boo·jig, or the White Fisher, Day, Ma-cou-da, or the Beur’s Heart. Songa-ko-mig, or the Strong Ground. From St. Croix river. Ohiqfr. Warriors. P - - e- , C 'n l- Pe-zhe-ke, or the Buffalo, 315;:,; Walwetung mm g Home H0 Ka-be-ma-be, or the Wet Month. ywbanse: or the Young Buck, Ki:-ke-taZwak, or the Cut Ear. From Lake Oourtcovillc. Chiqfle. Pa-qua-a-mo, or the Wood Pecker. From Lac De Flambeau. C'h£¢r. 0-ge-ma·ga, or the Dandy, p· h_k _ _ h Wh- C , Pa-se-quam-jis, or the Commissioner Ni;_w;5_lv§a’e;: ;(nec:t6 mw Wa-be»ne-me, or the White Thundelu 68
