The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern ConfederacyAbel, Annie Heloise
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The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy
Abel, Annie Heloise
Indian Territory; Slavery -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
ARTICLE XXII. No citizen or inhabitant of the Confederate States shall
pasture stock on the lands of the Creek Nation, under the penalty of
one dollar per head for all so pastured, to be collected by the
authorities of the nation; but their citizens shall be at liberty at
all times, and whether for business or pleasure, peaceably to travel
the Creek country; and to drive their stock to market or otherwise
through the same, and to halt such reasonable time on the way as may
be necessary to recruit their stock, such delay being in good faith
for that purpose.
ARTICLE XXIII. It is also further agreed that the members of the Creek
Nation shall have the same right of travelling, driving stock and
halting to recruit the same in any of the Confederate States as is
given citizens of the Confederate States by the preceding article [p.
295].
[292] Article LXV of the Creek Treaty, Article XXVI of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Treaty, Article XXXI of the Seminole Treaty, and Article XXII of
the Cherokee Treaty.
[293] Article XVIII of the Creek Treaty, Article XXV of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Treaty, Article XIX of the Seminole Treaty, and Article XXI of
the Cherokee Treaty.
[294] Article LXV of the Creek Treaty and Article XXXI of the Seminole
Treaty.
[295] Tush-ca-hom-ma at Boggy Depot and Cha-lah-ki at Tahlequah.
[296] Article XXX of the Creek Treaty, Article XLIII of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Treaty, Article XXX of the Seminole Treaty, and Article XXXV of
the Cherokee Treaty.
[297] Article XXVIII of the Creek Treaty, Article XLIV of the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Treaty, Article XXVIII of the Seminole Treaty, Article XXXIII of
the Cherokee Treaty, Article XXXVI of the Osage Treaty, Article XXVII of
the Seneca and Shawnee Treaty, and Article XXVII of the Quapaw Treaty.
[298] Article XXIX of the Cherokee Treaty and Article XXIII of the Choctaw
and Chickasaw Treaty.
[299]
ARTICLE XXXI (Cherokee Treaty). Any person duly charged with a
criminal offence against the laws of either the Creek, Seminole,
Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations, and escaping into the jurisdiction of
the Cherokee Nation, shall be promptly surrendered upon the demand of
the proper authority of the nation within whose jurisdiction the
offence shall be alleged to have been committed; and in like manner,
any person duly charged with a criminal offence against the laws of
the Cherokee Nation, and escaping into the jurisdiction of either of
the said nations, shall be promptly surrendered upon the demand of the
proper authority of the Cherokee Nation [pp. 401-402].
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