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 TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. MARGH 19, 1867. 719 Thedty between the United States of America and the Chqnoewd Indians of the Zlésszkszppi: Ooncluded, March 19, 1867; Radi cation advised, with Amendment, April 8, 1867; Amendment accepted:/Q April 8, 1867; Proclaimegl, April 18, 1867. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, no nr. aim smcuma ro wnox rnnsn rnnsnurs emu. coun, ommzrmox March 19, 1867. WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washing- Preamble. ton, in the District of Columbia, on the nineteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, by and between Lewis V. Bogy, William H. Watson, and Joel B. Bassett, Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and Que-we-zance, or Holein-the—Day, Qui-we-shen-shish, and other chiefs and headmen of the Chippewa Indians of the Mississippi, 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 agreement made and concluded at Washington, D. C., this 19th Contracting day of March, A. D. 1867, between the United States represented by Pm*°°• Lewis V. Bogy, special commissioner thereto appointed, William H. Watson, and Joel B. Bassett, United States Indian agent, and the Chippewas of the Mississippi, represented by Que-we-zance, or Holein-the-Day, Qui-we-shen-shish, Wau-bon-a·quot. Min-e—do-wob, Mijaw-ke·ke-shik, Shob-osh-kunk, Ka-gway-dosh, Me-no·ke·sl1ick, Way- ua-mee, and O-gub-ay—gwan·ay—a.ush. Whereas, by a certain treaty ratified March 20th, 1865, between the Vol. xiii. p. 698. parties aforesaid, a certain tract of land was, by the second article thereof, reserved and set apart for a home for the said bands of Indians, and by other articles thereof provisions were made for certain moneys to be exg pended for agricultural improvements for the benefit of said bands; and whereas it has been found that the said reservation is not adapted for agricultural purposes for the use of such of the Indians as desire to devote themselves to such pursuits, while a. portion of the bands desire to remain and occupy a part of the aforementioned reservation and to sell the remainder thereof to the United States: now, therefore, it is agreed- Anmrcnn I. The Chippewas of the Mississippi hereby cede to the 1 (§¤l¤¤ of United States all their lands in the State of Minnesota, secured to them "' by the second article of their treaty of March 20th, 1865, excepting and _ reserving therefrom the tract bounded and described as follows, to wit: R¤¤°*"****°¤- Commencing at a point on the Mississippi river, opposite the mouth of B<>¤¤d¤*‘l“- Wanoman river, as laid down on Sewall’s map of Minnesota; thence due north to a point two miles further north than the most northerly point of