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 ARTICLES OF A CONVENTION Oct. 15, 1836. Entered into and concluded at Bellevue Upper Mssouri the jijteenth day tif October one thousand eight hundred and thirtyjsiac, by Feb. 15, 1837. and etween John Dougherty U. S. agt. for Indian Afairs and Joshua Pilcher U S. Ind. s. agt being specially authorized therefor; and the chiefs braves head men Qc rg the Otoes Mssouries Omahaws and Yankton and Santee ands of Sioux, duly authorized by their respective tribes. Treaty of July ARTICLE Ist. Whereas it has been represented that according to the 15h3i30p 328 stipulations of the first article of the treaty of Prairie du Chien of the '` fifteenth of July eighteen hundred and thirty, the country ceded is " to be assigned and allotted under the direction of the President of the United States to the tribes now living thereon or to such other tribes as the President may locate thereon for hunting and other purposes,"and whereas it is further represented to us the chiefs, braves and head men of the tribes aforesaid, that it is desirable that the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river, and south of a line running due west from the northwest corner of said State until said line strikes the Missouri river, should be attached to and become a part of said State, and the Indian title thereto be entirely extinguished; but that notwithstanding, as these lands compose a part of the country embraced by the provisions of the said first article of the treaty aforesaid, the stipulations whereof will be strictly observed, until the assent of the Indians interested is given to the proposed measure. Now we the chiefs braves and principal men of the Otoes Missouries Omahaws Yankton and Santee bands of Sioux aforesaid fully understanding the subject and well satisfied from the local position of the lands in question, that they never can be made available for Indian purposes; and that an attempt to place an Indian population on them must inevitably lead to collisions with the citizens of the United States; and, further believing that the extension of the State line in the direction indicated, would have a happy effect by presenting a natural boundary between the whites and Indians; and willing moreover to give the United States a renewed Cem,,,, Orland evidence of our attachment and friendship; do hereby for ourselves and to the U.S. on behalf of our respective tribes (having full power and authority io this effect; for ever cede relinquish and quit claim to the United States all our rig t title and interest of whatsoever nature in and to the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river, and south of a line running due west from the northwest corner of the State to the Missouri river, as herein before mentioned, and freely and fully exonerate the United States from any guarantee condition or limitation expressed or implied under the treaty of Prairie du Chien aforesaid or otherwise, as to the entire and absolute disposition of said lands, fully authorizing the United States to do with the same whatever shall seem expedient or necessary. Present of Am. 2d. As a proof of the continued friendship and liberality of the $450*1 i¤ mf- United States towards the said Otoes Missouries Omahaws and Yankton °h“"d‘“‘ and Santee bands of Sioux, and as an evidence of the sence entertained for the good will manifested by the said tribes to the citizens and Government of the United States as evinced in the preceding cession and (524)