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 TREATY WYPH THE POTTOWAUTOMIES. Jour: 5 Ann 17, 1846. 853 TREATY WITH THE POTTOWAUTOMIE NATION. (*1) Whereas the various bands of the Pottowautomie Indians, known as yum, 5 and 17 the Chippewas, Ottawas, and Pottowautomies, the Pottowautomies 1846. i of the Prairie, the Pottowautomies of the Wabash, and the Potto- wautomies of Indiana, have, subsequent to the year 1828, entered m?,yu1ye2,isi6. into separate and distinct treaties with the United States, by which Proclamation, they have been separated and located in different countries, and my A W6- difiiculties have arisen as to the proper distribution of the stipula- P'°““‘bl°‘ tions under various treaties, and being the same people by kindred, by feeling, and by language, and having, in former periods, lived on and owned their lands in common; and being desirous to unite in one common country, and again become one people, and receive their annuities and other benefits in common, and to abolish all minor distinctions of bands by which they have heretofore been divided, and are anxious to be known only as the POTTOWAUTOMIE Nniorv, thereby reinstating the national character; and whereas the United States are also anxious to restore and concentrate said tribes to a state so desirable and necessary for the happiness of their people, as well as to enable the government to arrange and manage its intercourse with them: now, therefore, the United States and the said Indians do hereby agree, that said people shall hereafter be known as a nation, to be called the POTTOWAUTOMIE Narrou; aud to the following Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at the Agency on the Missouri River, near Gzuncil Blufs, on the ffth Day of June, and at Pottawatomie Creek, near the Osage River, south and west of the Slate of Missouri, on the seventeenth Day of the same month, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, between T. P. Andrews, Thomas H Harvey, and Gideon C Matlock, Commissioners on the Part if the United States, on the one Part, and the various Bands of the Pottowautomie, Chippcwas, and Ottouzas Indians, on the other part :— Anrrcnm I. It is solemnly agreed that the peace and friendship which so happily _ P•=3¤¤*= md exist between the people of the United States and the Pottowautomie g‘nf:;l}:Qg:;,?°°' Indians shall continue forever; the said tribes of Indians giving assurance, hereby, of iidelity and friendship to the government and people of the United States; and the United States giving, at the same time, promise of all proper care and parental protection Arvrrctn H. The said tribes of Indians hereby agree to sell and cede, and do _ Pottowautohereby sell and cede, to the United States, all the lands to which they f:f;¤°fgd§J°§“‘“ have claim of any kind whatsoever, and especially the tracts or parcels ` of lands ceded to them by the treaty of Chicago, and subsequent thereto, and now, in whole or in part, possessed by their people, lying and being north of the River Missouri, and embraced in the limits of the Territory of Iowa; and also all that tract of country lying and being on or near the Osage River, and west of the State of Missouri; (a) The name of this tribe is, in dilferent treaties, spelled very differently.