Treaties

Unknown sign date, Fort Sumner

Signed in 1868, Fort Sumner

Signed in June of 1868, Fort Sumner

Signed on June 1, 1868, Fort Sumner

Unknown proclamation date

Proclaimed in 1868

Proclaimed in August of 1868

Proclaimed on August 12, 1868

Unknown ratification date

Ratified in 1868

Ratified in July of 1868

Ratified on July 25, 1868

Indigenous Nation(s)

Read the treaty from Kappler, Indian

Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. II

Page(s)

Link

Summary of Treaty Articles:

Peace and friendship -- Offenders among the whites to be arrested and punished -- Among the Indians, to be given up to the United States -- Rules for ascertaining damages -- Reservation boundaries -- Who not to reside thereon --Buildings to erected by the United States -- Agent to make his home and reside where -- Heads of family desiring to commence farming may select lands, etc. -- Effect of such selection -- Persons not heads of families -- Certificates of selection to be delivered, etc., to be recorded -- Survey -- Alienation and descent of property -- Children between 6 and 16 to attend school -- Duty of agent -- Schoolhouses and teachers -- Seeds and agricultural implements -- Delivery of articles in lieu of money and annuities -- Clothing, etc. -- Indians to be furnished with no articles they can make -- Census -- Annual appropriation in money for ten years -- May be changed -- Army officer to attend delivery of goods, etc. -- Stipulations by the Indians as to outside territory -- Railroads -- Residents, travelers, wagon trains -- Women and children -- Scalping -- Roads or stations -- Damages -- Military posts and roads -- Cession of reservation not to be valid unless, etc. -- Indians to go to reservation when required -- Appropriations, how to be disbursed -- Removal -- Sheep and goats -- Cattle and corn -- Remainder -- Removal, how made -- Reservation to be permanent home of Indians -- Penalty for leaving reservation

U.S. Treaty Signers

signature (on treaty)

title (on treaty)

Dodd, Theo. H.No hyperlink inserted
Getty, George W. G.No hyperlink inserted
McClure, CharlesNo hyperlink inserted
McKee, J. CooperNo hyperlink inserted
Roberts, Benjamin S.No hyperlink inserted
Sherman, William T.No hyperlink inserted
Sutherland, J. C.No hyperlink inserted
Tappan, Samuel F.No hyperlink inserted
Vaux, WilliamNo hyperlink inserted
Weeds, James F.No hyperlink inserted

Overview of treaties in this era

• Civil War to End of Treaty Making (click to learn more)

Sources

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Kappler, Charles J. (ed.). Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, Vol. 2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.

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