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Treaty with the Blackfeet, 1855.

[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Company, [2020]

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Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at the council-ground on the Upper Missouri, near the mouth of Judith River in the Territory of Nebraska, this seventeenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, by and between A. Cumming and Isaac I. Stevens, commissioners duly appointed and authorized, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs, headmen, and delegates of the following nations and tribes of Indians, who occupy, for the purposes of hunting, the territory on the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, and who have permanent homes as follows: East of the Rocky Mountains, the Blackfoot Nation, consisting of the Piegan, Blood, Blackfoot, and Gros Ventres tribes of Indians. West of the Rocky Mountains, the Flathead Nation, consisting of the Flathead, Upper Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenay tribes of Indians, and the Nez Perce tribe of Indians, the said chiefs, headmen and delegates, in behalf of and acting for said nations and tribes, and being duly authorized thereto by them-- HeinOnline description.

"Treaty Number: NAM000317."
Treaty date: 10/17/1855.
Extracted from: United States. Statutes at large and treaties of the United States of America. Boston : Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851-1859.
Extracted from: United States. Indian affairs : laws and treaties / compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington : Government Printing Office, 1903-1971.

11 Stat. 657
2 Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties (1904) 736

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Description based on HeinOnline treaty summary, viewed March 12, 2020.

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