A TREATY OF PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP,
Sept. 2, 1815.
Ratified, Dec.26, 1815.
Injuries, &c.forgiven.
Perpetualpeace andfriendship.
Prisoners to bedelivered up.
Former trea-ties recognisedand confirmed.
Made and concluded between William Clark, Ninian Edwards ,and Auguste Chouteau , Commissioners Plenipotentiary of theUnited States of America , on the part and behalf of the saidStates, of the one part; and the undersigned Chiefs, Warriors,and Deputies, of the Kickapoo Tribe or Nation , on the part andbehalf of the said Tribe or Nation, of the other part.
The parties being desirous of re-establishing peace and friendshipbetween the United States and the said tribe or nation, and of beingplaced in all things, and in every respect, on the same footing uponwhich they stood before the war, have agreed to the following articles:
Article 1 . Every injury or act of hostility by one or either of thecontracting parties towards the other, shall be mutually forgiven andforgot.
Art. 2. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between allthe citizens of the United States of America , and all the individualscomposing the said Kickapoo tribe or nation.
Art. 3. The contracting parties do hereby agree, promise, and obligethemselves, reciprocally, to deliver up all the prisoners now in theirhands (by what means soever the same may have come into their pos-session) to the officer commanding at Fort Clarke, on the Illinois river,to be by him restored to their respective nations as soon as it may bepracticable.
Art. 4. The contracting parties, in the sincerity of mutual friend-ship, recognize, re-establish, and confirm, all and every treaty, contract,and agreement, heretofore concluded between the United States and theKickapoo tribe or nation.
In witness whereof, the said William Clark, Ninian Edwards , andAuguste Chouteau, Commissioners as aforesaid, and the Chiefs,Warriors, and Deputies, of the said tribe, have hereunto subscribedtheir names and affixed their seals, this second day of September,in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen,and of the independence of the United States the fortieth.
Pauwoatam, by his representative Ke-nepaso, or the bond prisoner,
Kiteta, or otter,
Kenepaso, or the bond prisoner,Teppema, or persuader,
Cokecambaut, or elk looking back,
Paywaynequa, or bear,Wettassa, or brave,Weywaychecawbout, or meeter,Autuppehaw, or mover,Wesheown, or dirty face.
Done at Portage des Sioux, in the presence of R. Wash, secretary to the commis-sion. T. A. Smith, B. G. U. S. A. D. Bissel, brig. gen. Stephen Byrd, col. M. N.T. Paul, C. C. T. A. M‘Nair, d. insp. Thomas Forsyth, I. agent. Pierre Menard,I. agent. Jno. W. Johnson, U. S. factor and Indian agent. Maurice Blondeaux, I.agent. Samuel Solomon, interpreter. Samuel Brady, lieut. 8th U. S. inf. JosephC. Brown. H. Battu. Samuel Whiteside, capt. II. militia.
To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seat.
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