others President will expend annuities for their welfare. (Art. 8.) The sum of $27,000 set apart for the claims for destruction of stock and crops by emigrants. (Art. 11.) Survey and sale.-Lands ceded to be surveyed and no settlements or sales permitted until Shawnees have made their selections. (Art. 5.) Provisions made for individuals (Art. 7) and for payment of debts. (Art. 10.) Roads. Right of way provided for authorized roads on same terms as through lands of citizens. Railroads to make compensation in money. (Art. 13.) Dependence on United States acknowledged. (Art. 14.) Use of liquor to be suppressed. (Art. 15.) One hundred and sixty acres set apart for agency. (Art. 16.) Treaty binding when ratified. (Art. 17.) Amended August 2, 1854. Amendments accepted August 21, 1854. Proclaimed November 2, 1854.1 For treaty of February 23, 1867, see Kaskaskia treaty, same date-Indian Territory. For agreement made with Modocs, June 23, 1874, and act of Congress confirming the same, see Modoc Reservation-Indian Territory. WYANDOTTE RESERVATION. How established.-By treaty of February 23, 1867. Area and survey.-Contains 21,406 acres, of which 14,000 are classed as tillable. Surveyed.3 Acres cultivated.-The Indians have under cultivation 1,144 acres.1 Tribes and population.-The tribe living here is the Wyandotte. Pop.. ulation, 367.5 Location. The reservation consists principally of wooded flint hills, dotted here and there with small arable prairies, combined with the rich valley and bottom lands." Government rations.-None issued. Mills and Indian employés.-None reported. Indian police.-None reported. Indian court of offences.-None reported. School population, attendance, and support.-School population, as estimated in 1886, 75. School reported with the Seneca Reservation. SYNOPSIS OF TREATIES WITH THE WYANDOTTE INDIANS. Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Fort McIntosh, January 21, 1785. See Chippewa treaty of same date.-Michigan. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 116.) Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Fort Harmer, January 9, 1789. See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 28.) Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Greenville, Ohio, August 3, 1795 See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 49.) United States Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 1053. 2 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1884, p. 308. 3 Ibid., p. 259. 4 Ibid., 1886, p. 430. • Ibid., p. 140. Ibid., p. 398. Treaty with Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Vincennes, August 7, 1803. See treaty with Kickapoos, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 77.) Treaty with Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Fort Industry, July 4, 1805, See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 87.) Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Detroit, November 17, 1807. See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 105.) Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Bronston, Mich., November 25, 1808. See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 112.) Treaty with Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Greenville, Ohio, July 22, 1814. See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 118.) Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Spring Wells, Mich., September 8, 1815. See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 131.) Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made on Miami of the Lakes, September 29, 1817. See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 160.) Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at St. Mary's, Ohio, September 17, 1818. See Chippewa treaty, same date. (See United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 178.) Treaty with the Wyandottes, made at St. Mary's, Ohio, September 20, 1818. Indians cede two tracts of land in Michigan, containing about 5,000 acres, said tracts being reserved for use of Indians for fifty years under act of Congress, entitled "An act for the relief of certain Alabama and Wyandotte Indians," passed February 28, 1809. (Art. 1.) In consideration of cession 4,996 acres reserved near river Huron on same terms as provided for Alabama Indians in above act, except that Wyandottes shall hold said lands so long as they occupy the same. (Art. 2.) Proclaimed January 7, 1819.' Treaty with Wyandottes, made at McCutcheonsville, Crawford County, Ohio, January 19, 1832. Wyandottes of Big Spring, Crawford County, Ohio, cede reservation of 16,000 acres, granted in article 2, treaty of September 17, 1818. (Art. 1.) Land to be surveyed and sold for benefit of tribe, which shall receive $1.25 per acre for all land sold. (Art. 2.) Improvements on ceded lands to be appraised and purchased. (Art. 3.) Tract reserved for one chief. (Art. 4.) Wyandottes permitted to remove to river Huron, Michigan, where they own a reservation, or wherever they may obtain permis 'United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 180. sion from other Indians to go. of Upper Sandusky, a special ratified. Proclaimed April 6, 1832.1 (Art. 5.) Said band being separated from Wyandottes agent to be employed. (Art. 7.) Treaty binding when Treaty with the Wyandottes in Ohio, April 23, 1836. Indians cede three tracts in the county of Crawford herein described. (Art. 1.) Cession to be surveyed and sold as President may direct. (Art. 2.) President to appoint a register and receiver. (Art. 3.) Expenses of treaty and sale defrayed from proceeds of sale. (Art. 4.) Amount approved by chiefs to be used for rebuilding of mills, repairing of roads, and establishing of schools. The remainder to be distributed as annuities. (Art. 5.) All moneys except the last to be paid by receiver on order of chiefs. (Art. 6.) Certain tracts included in cession and set apart by treaty of September 29, 1817, to be sold and proceeds paid to those for whom they were set apart. (Art. 7.) If prices paid for land be unsatisfactory to chiefs receiver may close sale and President appoint some other time for sale. (Art. 8.) President to direct the execution of treaty. (Art. 9.) Proclaimed May 16, 1836.2 Treaty with the Wyandottes, made at Upper Sandusky, Crawford County, Ohio, March 17, 1842. Wyandottes cede the residue of their reservation, 109, 144 acres, being all their lands in the State of Ohio; also 4,966 acres, their reservation on the river Huron, and all their lands in the State of Michigan. United States to pay $500 towards removal of Huron River Indians. (Art. 1.) In consideration of foregoing United States grants a tract of 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi, to be located on lands now to be set apart for Indian use and not already assigned. (Art. 2.) Wyandottes to receive perpetual annuity of $17,500 in specie; first payment to be made in 1842, and to include all former annuities. (Art. 3.) Also permanent provision of $500 per annum for support of school, to begin in three years [1845]. (Art. 4.) Wyandottes to be paid full value of improvements in country ceded in Ohio and Michigan. (Art. 5.) United States to pay debts of Wyandottes to citizens of United States to amount of $23,860. (Art. 6.) Wyandottes allowed use and occupancy of their homes until April 1, 1844. (Art. 7.) Blacksmith and shop to be provided. (Art. 8.) Also subagent and interpreter. (Art. 9.) Farm and buildings of Methodist Episcopal Mission to be possessed until April 1, 1844. (Art. 10.) All Wyandottes emigrating west to participate in benefits of annuity and other privileges. Those who do not emigrate or may cease to remain with the tribe not to be entitled to benefits aforesaid. (Art. 11.) Four hundred and eighty acres remaining of a grant to Wyandotte chief by treaty of September 29, 1817, to be sold for benefit of his heirs. (Art. 12.) Chiefs agree to remove their people west of Mississippi. The sum of $5,000 to be paid chiefs when first detachment sets out; $5,000 on arrival of whole nation in the west. (Art. 13.) United States to patent one section of land to Wyandottes herein named out of any lands west of Missouri set apart for Indian use and not otherwise claimed or occupied. Patent in feesimple. (Art. 14.) Payment made to certain interpreters and chiefs. (Art. 15.) Grant of $3,000 to the widow of a citizen living with Wyandottes for property destroyed in the War of 1812. (Art. 16.) Two acres of ground forever reserved and devoted to public use, to include stone meeting-house and burying-grounds north of Upper Sandusky; said tracts to remain forever open and free to all persons for purposes of interment and worship, and no other purposes whatever. (Art. 17.) Treaty binding when ratified. (Art. 18.) Amended August 17, 1842; assented to September 16, 1812; proclaimed October 5, 1842.3 1 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 364. XI, p. 581. Ibid., p. 502. 3 Ibid., Vol. Agreement of December 14, 1843, approved by act of Congress July 25, 1848. This act sanctions agreement made December 14, 1843, between the Wyandotte and Delaware Indians for purchase of certain lands by the former of the latter, with proviso. Delawares donate, grant, and quitclaim forever to Wyandottes three sections of land at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers. (Sec. 1.) Delawares grant to Wyandottes and their heirs thirty-six sections lying between the Missouri and Kansas, west of the aforesaid three sections. Land to be surveyed in as nearly a square form as rivers and territory will admit. (Sec. 2.) Wyandotte chiefs bind themselves and their successors in office and their people to pay Delawares $46,080, as follows: The sum of $6,080 to be paid in 1844, and $4,000 annually thereafter for ten years. (Sec. 3.) Agreement not binding until approved by President. Proviso: That the Wyandotte Indian Nation shall take no better right nor interest in said lands than is now vested in the Delaware Nation of Indians.1 Treaty with the Wyandottes, made at Washington, April 1, 1850. Whereas by the first article of the treaty of March 17, 1842, the United States agreed, in consideration of cessions of Wyandotte lands in Ohio and Michigan, to grant a tract of 148,000 acres, besides annuities; and Whereas the Wyandottes never did receive said amount of land but were forced to purchase land from the Delaware Nation on December 14, 1843, said purchase being ratified by Congress; Therefore, in order to settle the claim against the United States the following treaty is agreed to: The Wyandottes relinquish all claim to 148,000 acres of land to be given them under the treaty of March 17, 1842, and receive in lien thereof $185,000; $100,000 to be invested at 5 per cent., interest to be paid at the time and in the manner of their present annuities, and $85,000 to enable them to extinguish their just debts, including that due the Delawares for the purchase of their land. (Art. 1.) Reasonable expenses connected with this treaty to be paid by the United States. Amended September 24, 1850; proclaimed September 30, 1850.2 Treaty with the Wyandottes, made at Washington, January 31, 1855. At the ratification of this treaty Wyandottes to become citizens of the United States and to be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities of such; to be subject to laws of the United States and the Territory of Kansas. Jurisdiction of the United States and of Territory to extend over Wyandotte country, but such of said Indians who may so desire, and shall make application accordingly, shall be exempt from immediate operation of preceding provision, and shall have the assistance and protection of the United States and Indian agent in their vicinity for such limited period as shall be determined by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and upon the expiration of such period they shall also become citizens of the United States. (Art. 1) Wyandottes cede all their tract purchased from the Delaware Indians for the purpose of said land being subdivided, assigned, and reconveyed by patent in fec-simple, except that portion now inclosed and used as a public buryingground, which shall be permanently reserved for that purpose. Two acres, to include the church building of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and present buryingground connected therewith, to be reserved and continued to that church. Two acres hereby reserved and conveyed to Methodist Episcopal Church South. Four acres adjoining Wyandotte Ferry near the mouth of the Kansas reserved, together with rights in said ferry to be sold to the highest bidder among the Wyandotte people. Proceeds to be paid to Wyandottes. Upon payment, patent to be conveyed from the United States. (Art. 2.) Land to be surveyed. Three commissioners appointed; one by United States, two by Wyandotte council, and the land to be assigned to individnal members. Land to be as nearly as possible equal in quantity and value irrespective of improvements. Assignments to include the houses, and as far as practicable, the im'United States Statutes at Large, Vol. IX, p. 337. 2 Ibid., p. 987, provements of each person or family. Full report and plat and schedule to be made, showing land assigned to each individual and quantity thereof, and also a list of members of the tribe, to exhibit, first, heads of families whom the commissioner considers competent to control and manage their own affairs, also such persons without families; second, those not competent; third, orphans, idiots, and insane. Council to appoint a proper person or persons to be representatives of those of the second class, and also guardians for the third class. Said appointments to be revised annually by the counci!. Also a list of persons applying to be temporarily exempted from citizenship. Said lists and action of the council to be filed with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and attested copies to be filed in the office of the secretary of Kansas, and clerk of county in which Wyandotte lands are situated. (Art. 3.) Patents in fee to be issued to those of the first class; to those of the second with a restriction upon sale for five years, and not then without the consent of the President. Said patents may be withheld so long as commissioner may deem it beneficial for the individual. None of the lands thus assigned and patented to be subject to taxation for five years from and after the organization of State government. Those of the incompetent class not to be alienated or leased for period longer than two years, and to be exempt from levy, sale, or forfeiture until otherwise provided by State legislation with the assent of Congress. (Art. 4.) Three persons appointed to appraise improvements belonging to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Amount of appraisements to be paid said church by the individual to whom the lands having said houses or improvements have been assigned. Until payments made no patents or evidence of title to be issued. (Art 5.) Wyandottes release the United States from all claims to annuities and school money, blacksmith, agent, and other assistants and material. In consideration of which the United States pays $380,000, to be equally distributed in three installments, commencing October, 1855. Such annuities as have accrued and remain unpaid at the time of the payment of the first installment to be paid and considered as a final discharge of said annuity. (Art. 6.) The invested sum of $480,000 by treaty of 1850 to be paid in two equal annual installments, commencing after the payment of the last installment as provided in article 6. Meanwhile interest, together with sum realized from ferry, to be used for support of schools. (Art. 7.) Persons included in the apportionment of lands or money to be actual members of Wyandotte Nation, or legal heirs and representatives according to the laws, usages, and customs thereof at the time of the ratification of this treaty. (Art. 8.) Grantees under former treaty of 1842 permitted to select lands west of Missouri and Iowa subject to pre-emption and settlement. Such selections to be patented with unrestricted rights. For those incapable of managing their own affairs, council to appoint guardians with full authority to make and execute a good and valid title. (Art. 9.) All expenses connected with the provisions of this treaty, except the survey and issue of patents, to be borne by Wyandottes. (Art. 10.) Treaty binding when ratified. (Art. 11.) Proclaimed March 1, 1855.1 Treaty with the Wyandottes and other tribes, made at Washington, February 23, 1867. See Kaskaskia treaty, same date-Indian Territory. (See United States Statutes, Vol. XV, p. 513.) SAC AND FOX AGENCY. [Post-ofice address: Sac and Fox Agency, Ind. T.] SAC AND FOX RESERVATION. How established.-By treaty of February 18, 1867. Area and survey.-Contains 479,667 acres. ported. Surveyed.2 Tillable acres not re 2 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. X, p. 1159. 2 Report of Indian Commissioner, 1884, p. 259. |