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 958 TREATY WITH THE SIOUX. Aueusr 5, 1851. AND WHEREAS, the said amendments having been submitted and explained to the said Med—ay-wa-kan-toan and Wah—pay-koo-tay bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, the said Indians did, on the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, assent to the said treaty as amended by the Senate, in words following, to wit: We the undersigned, Chiefs and Headmen of the Med-ay-wa-kan-toan and Wah-pay-koo-tay bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, parties to the treaty made and concluded at Mendota, in the Territory of Minnesota, on the fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, coniiding in the justice, liberality, and humanity of the President and the Congress of the United States, that such tracts of country will be set apart for our future occupancy and home as will be to us acceptable and satisfactory, do hereby give our free and voluntary assent to said treaty of August 5, 1851, as amended by the resolution of the Senate of the United States, on the twenty-third day of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, the same having been submitted to us by Alexander Ramsey, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of Minnesota, and Commissioner on the part of the United States, and fully and fairly explained by him to us in Council assembled. In testimony whereof the undersigned, Chiefs and Headmen of the Med-ay-warkamtoan and Wah-pay-koo—tay bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, have hereunto subscribed their names, in duplicate, at the office of the Superintendent of Indian Atfairs, in the town of St. Paul, Territory of Minnesota, this fourth day of September, eighteen hundred and 1'ifty-two. Wa pa-shaw, Ee-wan·kam-ee-na-zhccn, Ta-cya-te-dum, O-tcho-knh—doo-tah, We-koo-tay, (by his nephew,) Hoch-shce-dan-doo·tah, Ta-tchan-koo-wash-tay, Tnrtay-h’m0o·l1e-ya·ya, Ma. h’pce wa—tchash-tay, Hay-pee-dah, Sha-’k·puy, Tu-tchan—k0o, Ma-za ho-ta, (by his brother,) Wa-so0·he- ’dah, We-tchan-h’pee, Oan-kcc-ta-lice-dan, Hoo-shah-shah, Wa—soo-woe·tcho.sta-shnec, Tck=m·h'1pee-yoo-ka, Tcha-noon-pass., We-new endce-o—ta, Kahhce-dab, Hecn-han-doo-ta, Tee—tchay, Wa-kan-0-zhan-zhan, Ta-tchan—h’pee—sa-pa, Too-kan-a-hcna-mwnee, Ta—mo-hah, Wa-m’¢lce-doota, Na.-pay-wa-kan-da-pay, Hoo-ya-pa, Nah-payslinee, 'I‘a·ma-zu.-ho-wasli-tay, Ta—sha-kah, Ma ko.-ta-nc-na·zha, Wa-kan-dce-ka—ha, Tn-sa-gee-a—me-zha, Wee-ohn-da, Mah-hah-to, Ta-han-pee-doo-teh, Ta—tay-o-wo-teen-ma-nee, Om—patoo—doo-teh, Ta-shoank·sy, Pa-pay. O—no-ghec-na·zl1ecn, Witness: Henry M. Rice. Philander Prescott, U. S. Interpreter. Wallace B. Wliite, Secretary. C. L. Emerson; Samuel John Fiudley. To the Indian names are subjoined marks. The foregoing assent was signed in presence of myself, and the witnesses whose names are annexed. ALEX. RAMSEY, Oommissioner.