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 TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAWS. 1786. 21 Chokasatahe, Chickasaw Killer Tasonta, Kowetatahce, in Frog-Town, Onanoota, of Koosoatee, Keukuch, Talkoa, Ookoseta, or Sower Mush of Kooloque, Tulatiska, of Chaway, Umatooetha, the Water Hunter, Choika- Wooaluka, the Way-layer, Chota, mawga, Tatliusta, or Porpus of Tilassi, Wyuka, of Lookout Mountain, John, of Little Tallico, Tulco, or Tom of Chatuga, Skelelak, Will, of Akoha, Akonoluchta, the Cabin, N ecatee, of Sawta, Cheanoka, of Kawetakac, Amokontakona, Kutcloa, Yellow Bird. Wr·r·N1~:ss:—Wm. Blount. Sami. Taylor, Major. John Owen. Jess Walton. Jno. Cowan, Capt. Commandant. Thos. Gegg. W. Hazzard. Sworn Interpreters, James Madison, Arthur Coodey. To the Indian names are subjoined sr mark and seal. ARTICLES OF A TREATY Concluded at Hopeivell, on the Keowée, near Seneca Old Town, Jan. 3, 1786. between Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens and Joseph Martin, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, of the one part ; and Yockonahoma, great Medal Chief rj Soonacoha ; Yockehoopoie, leading Chief of Bugtoogoloo; Jmngohoopoie, leading Chief ry Hashooqua ; Tobocoh, great Medal Chiq` of Congetoo ; Pooshemastubie, Gorget Captain of Senayazo; and thirteen small Medal Chiefs of the first Class, twelve llhdal and Gorget Captains, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of all the Choctaw Nation, of the other part. Tun Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America give peace to all the Choctaw nation, and receive them into the favour and protection of the United States of America, on the following conditions: ARTICLE I. The Commissioners Plenipotentiary of all the Choctaw nation, shall Indian, to ,6. restore all the prisoners, citizens of the United States, or subjects of Store prisoners. their allies, to their entire liberty, if any there be in the Choctaw nation. They shall also restore all the negroes, and all other property taken during the late war, from the citizens, to such person, and at such time and place as the Commissioners of the United States of America shall appoint, if any there be in the Choctaw nation. ARTICLE II. The Commissioners Plenipotentiary of all the Choctaw nation, do The ackmw hereby acknowledge the tribes and towns of the said nation, and the iedgéiihc Pm_ ` lands within the boundary allotted to the said Indians to live and hunt tection of U. S. on, as mentioned in the third article, to be under the protection of the United States of America, and of no other sovereign whosoever. ARTICLE III. The boundary of the lands hereby allotted to the Choctaw nation to Boundaries_ p live and hunt on, within the limits of the United States of America, is l and shall be the following, viz. Beginning at a point on the thirty-first degree of north latitude, where the Eastern boundary of the Natches