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 TBEATY WITH THE KIOWA INDIANS. Ocronmz 21, 1867. 589 Ihaty between the United States of Amer£ca and the Kiowa, Oomam.-he, and Apache Tribes of Indians; Ooncluded October 21, 1867; Rainfcatton advised July 25, 1868; Proclaimed August 25, 1868. ANDREW JOHNSON, ' PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Oct. 21,1007. ro .u.r. Isn smeuraa ro wnou mass raasaxrs s¤.¤.r. coma, eanarrae: Wuanans a treaty was made and concluded at the Council Cam, on Preamble. Medicine Lodge Creek, seventy miles south of Fort Larned, in the State of Kansas, on the twenty-iirst day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, by and between N. G. Tay- lor, Brevet Major-General William S. Harney, Brevet Major-General C. C. Augur, Brevet Major-General Alfred H. Terry, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, and J. B. Henderson, commissioners, on the part of the United States, and Satanka, (Sitting Bear,) Sa-Tan-Ta, (White Bear,) c|?“°`°°u°$ Parry-Wah-Say—llIen, (Ten Bears,) Tep-Pe-Navon, (Painted Lips,) Mah-Vip-Pali, (Wo1f’s Sleeve,) Kon-Zhon-Ta-Co, (Poor Bear,) and other chiefs and headmen of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes of Indians, on the part of said Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: —·— Articles of a treaty concluded at the Council Camp on Medicine Lodge Creek, seventy. miles south of Fort Larned, in the State of Kansas, on the twenty-first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty- seven, by and between the United States of America, represented by its commissioners duly appointed thereto, to wit: Nathaniel G. Taylor, William S. Harney, C. C. Augur, Alfred SC  Terry, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, and J. B. Henderson, of the one part, and the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians, represented by their chiefs and headmen duly authorized and empowered to act for the body of the people of said tribes (the names of said chiefs and headmen being hereto subscribed) of the other part, witness : -- Whereas, on the twenty-Erst day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, a treaty of peace was made and entered into at the Council Camp, on Medicine Lodge Creek, seventy miles south of Fort Larned, in the State of Kansas, by and between the United States of America, by its commissioners Nathaniel G. Taylor, William S. Harney, C. C. Augur, Alfred H. Terry, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, and J. B. Henderson, of the one part, and the Kiowa and Comanche tribes of Indians, of the Upper Arkansas, by and through their chiefs and headmen whose names are subscribed thereto, of the other part, reference being had to said treaty; and whereas, since the making and signing of said treaty, at a council held at said camp on this day, the chiefs and headmen of the Apache nation or tribe of Indians express to the commissioners on the part of the United States, as aforesaid, a wish to be confederated with the said Kiowa and Comanche tribes, and to be placed, in every respect, upon an equal footing with said tribes; and whereas, at