Treaty Between the United States and the Menominee Indians Signed at St. Louis, 3/30/1817“The
Treaty Between the United States and the Menominee Indians Signed at St. Louis, 3/30/1817“The Parties being desirous of reestablishing Peace and Friendship between the United States and the said Tribe or Nation …” The Menominee had been allied with the British during the War of 1812.File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 86: Menominee - St. Louis, March 30, 1817, 1789 - 1869Series: Indian Treaties, 1789 - 1869Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006Transcription: X2 [Written on the top]A Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and concluded by and between WilliamClark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners on the partand behalf of the United States of America, of the one part, and the undersignedChiefs and Warriors deputed by the Menomenee Tribe or Nation of Indians,on the part and behalf of their said Tribe or Nation of the other part.The Parties being desirous of reestablishing Peace and Friendship between theUnited States and the said Tribe or Nation, and of being placed in all thingsand in every respect the same footing upon which they stood before thelate war have agreed to the following Articles.Art. Ist; Every injury or act of hostility by one or either of the contracting partiesagainst the other, shall be mutually forgiven and forgot.Art. IInd; There shall be perpetual Peace and Friendship between all the Citizens of theUnited States and all the individuals composing the said Menonemee Tribe or Nation.Art. IIIrd; The undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, on the part and behalf of their saidTribe or Nation, do by these Presents, confirm to the United States all and everycession of land heretofore made by their Tribe or Nation to the British, French orSpanish Government, within the limits of the United States or their Territories;and also all and every Treaty , contract and Agreement heretofore concludedbetween the said United States and the said Tribe or Nation.Art. IVth; The contracting parties do hereby agree, promise and oblige themselves reciprocally,to deliver up all prisoners now in their hands (by what means soever the samemay have come into their possession) to the Officer Commanding at Prairiedu Chein to be by him restored to their respective parties hereto, as soon as itmay be practicableArt. Vth; The undersigned Chiefs and Warriors as aforesaid for themselves and thosethey represent; do hereby acknowledge themselves to be under the protection ofthe United States and of no other Nation Power of Sovereign whatsoever.In Witness whereof, the Commissioners aforesaid and undersignedChiefs and Warriors as aforesaid have hereunto subscribed their namesand affixed their seals this thirtieth day of March in the yearof[page 2]of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen and of theIndependence of the United States the Forty First.Done at St. Louis in the presence of[left column][signed] R. Wash, Secty to the } Commissioners }[signed] R. Graham U.S. I. A. for Illinois Terty[signed] T. Harrison[signed] Nimrod H. Moore[signed] S. Ganntt Lieut. U.S. Army[signed] CM Price[signed] Richard T. McKenney[signed] Amos Kibbe[signed] Nathaniel Mills[signed] Sam Solomon[right column][signed] William Clark [seal][signed] Ninian Edwards [seal][signed] Aug. Chouteau [seal]To-wa-na-pee Roaring Thunder [his x mark] [seal]Wee-Kay The Calumet Eagle [his x mark] [seal]Mue-quo-mo-ta The Fat of the Bear [his x mark] [seal]Wa-ca-quon or Sho-min [his x mark] [seal]War-ba-no The Dawn [his x mark] [seal]In-e–mi-kee Thunderer [his x mark] [seal]Le-bar-na-co The Bear [his x mark] [seal]Kar-Kun-de-go [his x mark] [seal]Sha-Sha-ma-nee The Elk [his x mark] [seal]Pe-no-name The Running Wolf [his x mark] [seal] -- source link
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