Treaties by Year

These are the articles of agreement and list of signees for a treaty made at Fort Gibson on the Arkansas River in Indian Territory (Oklahoma) on February 14, 1833 between representatives of the United States and the Western Cherokees (Cherokees west of the Mississippi River).

This treaty signed in the City of Washington on May 6, 1828 removed the Western Cherokee from the Territory of Arkansas to West of the Missississippi River. This is a copy of the full articles of that treaty, along with the list of signees. It also has clauses that pertain to the Choctaw and Creek Indians.

This is the full articles and list of signees of the February 27, 1819 Treaty with the Cherokee signed in the City of Washington, a corrected copy made March 1, 1819, and incorporating ammendments added at Cherokee Agency on January 6, 1817 and July 8, 1817.

This is the full text and list of signees of the treaty made between the United States and the Cherokee at the Cherokee Agency on July 8, 1817.

This is the full text and list of signees of a treaty made at the Chickasaw Council House on September 14, 1816 between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, which was ratified at Turkey Town October 4, 1816.

This the full text and list of signees of a treaty at Washington city on March 22, 1816, which was ratified on April 8, 1816.

This is the full text and list of signees of a treaty made in Washington city on March 22, 1816, which was ratified on April 8, 1816.

This is the full text and list of signees of a treaty made in the city of Washington between the United States and the Cherokee on January 7, 1806, which was ratified on May 22, 1807.

This is the full text and list of signees of a treaty at Tellico on October 27, 1805 between the United States and the Cherokee Indians.

This is the full text and list of signees of a treaty made between the United States and the Cherokee Indians at Tellico on October 25, 1805.

This is the full text and list of signees of a treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Indians signed at Tellico on October 24, 1804.

This treaty further clarified parts of the 1791 Treaty of Holston and 1794 Treaty of Philadelphia that had not previously been enforced between the United States and the Cherokee.

The 1794 Treaty with the Cherokee was concluded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 26, 1794. It reinforced the 1791 Treaty of Holston, and added to its terms.

A Treaty of Peace and Friendship made and concluded between the President of the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation of Indians signed on  July 2, 1791 in Philadelpia, Pennsylvania.

Articles concluded at Hopewell, on the Keowee, between Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, Joseph Martin, and Lachlan M’Intosh, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, of the one Part, and the Head-Men and Warriors of all the Cherokees of the other signed on November 28, 1785 at Hopewell.

This is the full text, along with the list of signees of the 1854 Treaty with the Chasta (Shasta), Etc. at Apple Creek, Oregon Territory struck on November 18, 1854 between the United States and the Chasta (Shasta), Scotons, and the Grave Creek band of Umpquas.

This is the full text and list of signees of a treaty  signed June 9, 1855 at Camp Stevens, Washington Territory between the US and the Walla-Wallas, Cayuses, and Umatilla tribes, and bands of Indians, occupying lands partly in Washington and partly in Oregon Territories. It was ratified March 8, 1859.

This is the full text and signee list of a 1794 treaty with the Six Nations concluded at  Konondaigua, New York on November 11, 1794. The Six Nations include the Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas,  Cayugas, Oneida and Tuscarora Nations. However, this treaty was never ratified by the US Senate.

This is the full text and signees of a treaty made at Fort Harmar on January 9, 1789 with the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Tuscaroras, Cayugas, and Senecas, otherwise known as the Six Nations.

This is the full text with signees of a 1784 Treaty with the Six Nations signed at Fort Stanwix on October 22, 1784, representing the Senecas, Mohawks, Onondagas,  Cayugas, Oneida and Tuscarora nations. 

This is the full text and signees of a 1792 treaty with the Senecas, Oneidas, Stockbridge Indians, Tuscaroras, Cayugas, and Onondagas signed on April 23, 1792 in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This is the full text of a treaty made  between, Ninian Edwards and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners on behalf of the United States of America, and the undersigned, principal chiefs and warriors of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Mitchigamia, Cahokia, and Tamarois tribes of the Illinois Nation of Indians, on behalf of the said tribes, signed on September 25, 1818.

This is the full text of the articles of a treaty made at the Agency-house in the Caddo nation,State of Louisiana, on tJuly 1, 1835 between Jehiel Brooks, Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs, head men, and Warriors of the Caddo nation of Indians, along with a list of the signees.

This is the full text, including signees of the 1838 treaty made with the New York Indians of the Six Nations confederacy  and the St. Regis tribe on January 15, 1838 at Buffalo Creek, New York.

This is the full text and signees of the 1865 treaty made at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory with the Blackfeet-Sioux on October 19, 1865 and ratified on March 5, 1866.

This is the complete text and list of signees for the 1855 Blackfeet Treaty made on October 17, 1855 on the Upper Missouri, near the mouth of the Judith River, Nebraska Territory. Signees included representatives of the Blackfoot Nation, consisting of the Piegan, Blood, and Blackfoot, and the Gros Ventres, Flathead, Upper Pend d’Oreille, Kootenay, and the Nez Percé tribe of Indians. It contained provisions against intoxication.

This is the full text and signees of a treaty made at the Lower Mandan Village on July 30, 1825. Among other terms, it set down rules to regulate trade with Indian tribes, particularly, the selling of guns.

This is the full text and signees of the 1868 Fort Bridger Treaty with the Eastern Band of Shoshone and Bannock made at Fort Bridger, Utah Territory, on July 3, 1868 and ratified on February 26, 1869.

This is the full text of the 1866 Fort Berthold Treaty signed at Fort Berthold, Dakota Territory on July 27, 1866. This agreement was between the United States and the Arikara, Gros Ventres, and Mandan, but was never ratified.

This is the full text of a treaty made at the Arikara Village on July 18, 1825. It regulates trade with the Indians, in particular the selling of guns.

This article contains the full text of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty with the Sioux and Arapaho signed on April 29, 1868 at Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory, and ratified on February 24, 1869.

Among the Soiux chiefs present were representatives of the Brule, Oglala, Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet-Sioux, Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Arcs, and Santee Sioux.

This treaty covered more than 40 areas of concern, including the establishment of military forts.

This article contains the complete text and of the Fort Laramie Treaty signed on September 17, 1851, and signed by chiefs of the Dakota Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Crow, Assinaboines, Gros-Ventre, Mandans, and Arikara tribes residing south of the Missouri River, east of the Rocky Mountains, and north of the lines of Texas and New Mexico.

This article contains the actual text and signees of the 1868 treaty with the Northern Cheyenne and Northern Arapaho at Fort Laramie, Dakota Territory on May 10, 1868.

This article contains the original text and signees of the 1861 Treaty with the Arapaho and Cheyenne at Fort Wise, Kansas Territory, on February 18, 1861.

The Apalachicola Band of Creek Indians became a federal tribe under the Additional Article of the 1823 Treaty with the Florida Indians. Six chiefs from among the thirty-two Florida Indian leaders were rewarded with tribal status and a 100 mile reservation in Northwest Florida as friendly allies of the Americans during the Patriot Revolution, War of 1812, the Creek War 1813, and the First Seminole War in 1820. That reservation was surrendered in the following treaty.

The Apalachicola Band of Creek Indians became a federal tribe under the Additional Article of the 1823 Treaty with the Florida Indians. Six chiefs from among the thirty-two Florida Indian leaders were rewarded with tribal status and a 100 mile reservation in Northwest Florida as friendly allies of the Americans during the Patriot Revolution, War of 1812, the Creek War 1813, and the First Seminole War in 1820. That reservation was surrendered in the following treaty.

The Apalachicola Band of Creek Indians became a federal tribe under the Additional Article of the 1823 Treaty with the Florida Indians. Six chiefs from among the thirty-two Florida Indian leaders were rewarded with tribal status and a 100 mile reservation in Northwest Florida as friendly allies of the Americans during the Patriot Revolution, War of 1812, the Creek War 1813, and the First Seminole War in 1820. That reservation was surrendered in the following treaty.

This article is the actual text of a treaty made with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Indians on October 21, 1867 at the Council Camp on Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas.

Fort Atkinson was the first regular army post on the Santa Fe trail in the heart of the Indian country.  It was part of the rapidly expanding American military frontier in the Far West following the Mexican War. As people traveled westward to occupy new lands for farming and ranching, rushed for gold, and exploited other natural resources of the vast continent, the need increased for military protection from the Indians whose homelands were being iinvaded. In 1853 a treaty was struck between the US Government and  the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians at Fort Atkinson.

The first treaty signed by the United States was with the Delaware (also known as Lenape) at Fort Pitt in 1778.  The Articles of Confederation were adopted between the states a little over a year earlier in 1777, to establish a government independent of British rule. The primary purposes of the treaty with the Delaware was to gain Delaware trade, and political and military alliance on the side of the Americans during the War of Independence. The British likewise sought military and political alliances among the Indian nations to fight against the rebellious Americans.

This is the actual wording of the Treaty of New Echota, made with the Cherokee on December 29, 1835.

This is the actual wording of a treaty made at Santa Fe, New Mexico on July 1, 1852 between representatives of the US Government and the Apache Nation.

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The United States sent Pierce M. Butler and M.S. Lewis to negotiate a treaty with the Texas Indians in May of 1846. Butler knew most of the Caddo chiefs, but became ill, so Lewis, who was less experienced and competent took charge. Lewis collected the Indian signatures on separate pieced of paper, but did not identify them by tribe. Later it was revealed that he wrote the actual treaty after he returned to Washington.

This is the exact wording of the treaty made at Council Springs, Texas on May 15, 1846 between the United States and 63 Indians from the Comanche tribe, I-on-I Band  (also sometimes called Hainai, Aynais, Aynay, Ainai, and Ayonai – they were the primary group in the Hasinai confederacy and part of the greater Caddo Tribe.), the Ana-da-ca Band (Anadarko Tribe),Cadoe Tribe (Caddo tribe), Lepan (Lipan Apache), Long-wha tribe (the Longwha cannot be identified except for their inclusion in the preamble of this treaty – they are not included in the signature section), Keechy Tribe, Tah-wa-carro (Tahuacarro or Tahwacarro – Who are they?), Wichita, and Waco tribes of Indians.