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 TREATY WITH THE MENDAWAKANTON. &c. SIOUX. JUNE 19, 1858. 1031 Treaty between the United States and the Mmdawahanton and Wahpakoota Bands of Dakota or Sioux Tribe of Indians. Ooneluded at Washington, June 19, 1858. Ratified by the Senate March 9, 1859. Proclaimed by the President of the United States, March 31, 1859. JAMES BUCHANAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, TO ALL AND BINGULAR T0 Wn0M rnmsn PRESENTS snau. coun, Gnmmmez June 19, 1858. WHEREAS, a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washing- Preamble. ton, on the nineteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- eight, by Charles E. Mix, commissioner on the part of the United States, and the following named chiefs and headmen of the Mendawakanton and Wahpakoota bands of the Dakota or Sioux tribe of Indians, viz.: Wabashaw, Chetanakooamouee, Wasuhiyahidan, Shakopee, Wamindeetonkee, Muzzaojanjan, Tachunrpeemuz-za., Wakinyantowa, Chunrpiyuha, Onkeeterhidan, and Wamouisa, braves, on the part of the Mendawakantons, and Hushawshaw chiefs, and Papa and Tataebomdu, braves, on the part of the Wahpakootas, they being duly authorized and empowered to act for said bands; which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the city gomacting of Washington, on the nineteenth day of June, one thousand eight hundred p¤1‘¤i¤¤· and fifty-eight, by Charles E. Mix, commissioner, on the part of the United States, and the following named` chiefs and headmen of the Mendawakanton and Wahpakoota. bands of the Dakota or Sioux tribe of Indians, viz.: Wabashaw, Chetanakooamonee, Washuhiyahitlan, Shakopee, Wamindeetonkee, Muzzaoianjan, and Makawto, chiefs, and Hinhanduta, Ha-raka-Muzza, Wakanojanjan, Tachunrpee-muz-za, Wakinyantowa, Chunrpiyuha, Onkeeterhidan, and Wa-mouisa, braves, on the part of the Mendawakantons, and Hushawshaw, chief, and Pa-Pa and Tataebomdu, braves, on the part of the Wahpakootas, they being duly authorized and empowered to act for said bands. ARTICLE I. It is hereby agreed and stipulated that, as soon as practi· B0 acres of res. cable after the ratification of this agreement, so much of that part of the gilglgfin of ::6,1 reservation or tract of land now held and possessed by the Mendawakan- 1,,,4,; a family ton and Wahpakoota bands of the Dakota or Sioux Indians, and which is of. &¤· described in the third article of the treaty made with them on the Efth Vol. x. p. 954. day of August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, which lies south or southwestwardly of the Minnesota River, shall constitute a reservation for said bands, and shall be surveyed, and eighty acres thereof, as near as may be in conformity with the public surveys, be allotted in severalty to each head of a family, or single person over the age of twenty-one years, in said bands of Indians, said allotments to be so made as to include a prop-· er proportion of timbered land, if the same be practicable, in each of said allotments. The residue of said part of said reservation not so allotted, Rmduou, be shall be held by said bands in common, and as other Indian lands are held incommou. held: Provided, however, That eighty acres thereof, as near as may be, Further mw shall, in like manner as above provided for, be allotted to each of the mu; minors of said bands on his or her attaining their majority, or on becom-