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 1078 TREATY WITH THE KICKAPOOS. MAY 18, 1854. FRANKLIN PIERCE, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: •ro ALL AND smeonan ro wuom rnssn r;snsnNrs smim. coma, ennnrmc: MW 18, 18,,, W11n1zr:As, a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washing- -·--- ton on the eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- four, by George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named delegates of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, viz: Pah-kah—kah, or John Kennekuk; Kap-i-o-mah, or the Fox Carrier; No·ka-wat, or the Fox Hair; Pe-sha-gon, or Tug made of Bear Skin; and Ke-wi-sah-tuk, or Walking Bear or Squire, thereto duly authorized by said tribe, which treaty is in the words following, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the city of Washington this eighteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, by George W. Manypenny, Commissioner on the part of the United States, andthe following named delegates of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians, viz: Pah-kah-kah, or John Kennekuk, Kap-i-o·mah, or the Fox Carrier, No-ka-wat, or the Fox Hair; Pe·sha-gon, or Tug made of Bear Skin, and Ke-wi-sah-tuk, or Walking Bear or Squire, thereto duly authorized by said tribe. Cmmofmd Awrrcrn 1. The Kickapoo tribe of Indians hereby eede, sel], and to the United convey unto the United States all that country southwest of the Missouri S*““”· River, which was provided, as a permanent home, for them in the treaty of Castor Hill, of the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and described in the supplemental article thereto, entered into at Fort Leavenworth, on the twenty-sixth of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, as follows: Beginning “ on the Delaware line, where said line crosses the left branch of Salt creek, thence down said creek to the Missouri river, thence up the Missouri river thirty miles when measured on a straight line, thence westwardly to a point twenty miles from the Delaware line, so as to include in the lands assigned to the Kickapoos, at least twelve hundred square miles ; ” Reservation for saving and reserving, in the western part thereof, one hundred and fifty apennanent thousand acres for a future and permanent home, which shall be set off h°¤¤°· for, and assigned to, them by metes and bounds. Provided, That upon the return home of the delegates here contracting, and upon consultation with their people, and after an exploration if required by them, in company with their agent, a location to that extent can be found within said specified section of country suited to their wants and wishes. And it is also further provided, That should a suitable location, upon examination and consultation, to the full extent of one hundred and fifty thousand acres, not be found within said western part of this cession, then the said delegates and agent shall be permitted to extend the location beyond the western line of the country herein ceded and north of the recent Delaware line over so much of the public domain, otherwise unappropriated, as shall make up the deficiency-—-or to make a. selection entirely beyond the limits of the country at present occupied by the Kickapoos upon any lands of the United States, not otherwise appropriated, lying within the limits bounded by the said western line, by the recent Delaware northern line, and the waters of the Great Nemahaw river; and in either ease they