Native American Tribes of the United States




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    May 3, 2017

    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.

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    May 3, 2017

    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.

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    May 2, 2017

    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.

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    May 2, 2017

    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.

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    May 2, 2017

    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.

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    May 2, 2017

    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.

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