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 656 TREATY WITH THE CHEYENNE INDIANS. MA! 10, 1868. R¤¤¤W¤*·i<>¤· Amxcnm II. The Indians, parties to this treaty, hereby agree to accept for their permanent home some portion of the tract of country set apart and designated as a permanent reservation for the Southern Chey- enne and Arapahoe Indians by a treaty entered into by and between them and the United States, at Medicine Lodge creek, on the — day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, or some portion of the country and reservation set apart and designated as a permanent home for the Brulé and other bands of Sioux Indians, by a. treaty entered into by and between said Indians and the United States, at Fort Laramie, D. T., on the twenty-ninth day of April, eighteen hundred and T°*"l*·°W °“*‘ sixty-eight. And the Northern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians do °m°°°"°°d°r°d' hereby relinquish, release, and surrender to the United States all right, claim, and interest in and to all territory outside the two reservations above mentioned, except the right to roam and hunt while game shall be Tv Wong tv found in sufficient quantities to justify the chase. And they do solemnly wh'" °g°"°Y' agree that they will not build any permanent homes outside of said reservations, and that within one year from this date they will attach themselves permanently either to the agency provided for near the mouth of Medicine Lodge creek, or to the agency about to be established on the Missouri River, near Fort Randall, or to the Crow agency near Otter creek, on the Yellowstone river, provided for by treaty of the seventh day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entered into by and between the United States and said Crow Indians, at Fort Laramie, Selection of D. T.; and it is hereby expressly understood that one portion of said '°“"'“°‘°““‘ Indians may attach themselves to one of the afore-mentioned reservations, and another portion to another of said reservations, as each part or portion of said Indians may elect. Hands of fam- Anrrcma III. If any individual belonging to said tribes of Indians, or legally incorporated with them, being the head of a family, shall desire ang ml, mm to commence farming, he shall have the privilege to select, in the presence l¤¤d¤, g°- and with the assistance of the agent then in charge, a tract of land within said reservations not exceeding three hundred and twenty acres in extent, which tract, when so selected, certified, and recorded in the “Land Book ” Erme or such as herein directed, shall cease to be held in common, but the same may •°l¤°*l°¤· be occupied and held in the exclusive possession of the person selecting it, and of his family, so long as he or they may continue to cultivate it. Persons not Any person over eighteen years of age, not being the head of a family, m:,'}' °“°m‘ may in like manner select and cause to be certified to him or her, for pur- ` poses of_ cultivation, a quantity of land not exceeding eighty acres in extent, and thereupon be entitled to the exclusive possession of the same as above directed. Certlllcste ct For each tract of land so selected a certificate containing u description
 * %:53;;*:: gf? thereof and the name of the person selecting it, with a certificate endorsed

’ " thereon that the same has been recorded, shall be delivered to the party to be record. entitled to it by the agent after the same shall have been recorded by him shall be known as the “Northern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Land Book." Survey. The President may, at any time, order a survey of the reservation; and when so surveyed, Congress shall provide for protecting the rights of settlers in their improvements, and may fix the character of the title held by eae 1. Allenation The United States may pass such laws on the subject of alienation and P M y' the government of the Indians on said reservations, and the internal police thereof as may be thought proper. Children ho- ARTICLE IV. In order to insure the civilization of the tribe entering into this treaty, the necessity of education is admitted, especially by such umd ,,,;,,,0L of them as are or may be settled on said agricultural reservation, and they therefore pledge themselves to compel their children, male and female,
 * 1- in a book to be kept in his office, subject to inspection, which said book
 * 2 d;€°°¤° °f descent of property as between Indians and on all subjects connected with