TREATY WITH THE PIANKESHAWS. 1804.
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Teta Buxika, Hocking Pomskann,
Bokongehelas, Tomkquee, or tiie Beaver.
Alimee, or Geo. White Eyes,
Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Jno. Gibson, Secretary to the Com-missioner. Henry Vanderburgh, one of the Judges of the Indiana Territory. Vigo,Colonel of Knox County I. T. Militia.. B. Parker, Attorney General of the IndianaTerritory. Jno. Rice Jones, of the Indiana Territory. Robert Buntin, Prothonotaryof Knox County, Indiana Territory. Geo. Wallace, Jun. of the Indiana Territory.Antoine Marchal, of I. T. Joseph Barron, interpreter. Edw’d. Hempstead, Attorneyat law.
I do certify that each and every article of the foregoing treaty wascarefully explained and precisely interpreted by me to the Delaware chiefs who have signed the same.
(Signed) JOHN GIBSON.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal.
A TREATY
Between the United States of America , and the Piankeshaw tribe
of Indians.
The President of the United States, by William Henry Harrison ,Governor of the Indiana territory, superintendent of Indian affairs; andcommissioner plenipotentiary of the United States , for concluding anytreaty or treaties which may be found necessary with any of the Indiantribes north west of the river Ohio ; and the chiefs and head men of thePiankeshaw tribe, have agreed to the following articles, which whenratified by the President of the United States , by and with the adviceand consent of the Senate , shall be binding upon the said parties.
Article 1. The Piankeshaw tribe relinquishes, and cedes to theUnited States for ever, all that tract of country which lies between theOhio and Wabash rivers, and below Clark’s grant; and the tract calledthe Vincennes tract, which was ceded by the treaty of Fort Wayne , anda line connecting the said tract and grant, to be drawn parallel to thegeneral course of the road leading from Vincennes to the falls of theOhio , so as not to pass more than half a mile to the northward of themost northerly bend of said road.
Article 2. The Piankeshaw tribe acknowledges explicitly the rightof the Kaskaskia tribe to sell the country which they have lately cededto the United States , and which is seperated from the lands of thePiankeshaws by the ridge or high land which divides the waters of theWabash from the waters of the Saline creek; and by that which dividesthe waters of the said Wabash from those which flow into the Au-vaseand other branches of the Mississippi .
Article 3. An additional annuity of two hundred dollars shall bepaid by the United States to the said tribe for ten years, in money,merchandize, provisions, or domestic animals, and implements of hus-bandry, at the option of the said tribe; and this annuity, together withgoods to the value of seven hundred dollars, which are now deliveredto them by the commissioner of the United States , is considered as afull compensation for the above-mentioned relinquishment.
Article 4. The United States reserve to themselves the right of
Aug. 27, 1804.
Proclamation,Feb. 6, 1805.
Ratified Jan.21, 1805.
Acknowledg-ment of theright of the Kas-kaskias to sellcertain land.
Additional an-nuity to be paidto the Pianke-shaws for tenyears.