As the said tribes of Ioways and Sacks and Foxes, have applied for a
small piece of land, south of the Missouri, for a permanent home, on
which they can settle, and request the assistance of the Government of
the United States to place them on this land, in a situation at least
equal to that they now enjoy on the land ceded by them: Therefore I,
William Clark, Superintendent of Indian Affairs, do further agree on
behalf of the United States, to assign to the Ioway tribe, and Missouri
band of Sacks and Foxes, the small strip of land on the south side of
the Missouri river, lying between the Kickapoo northern boundary line
and the Grand Nemahar river, and extending from the Missouri back and
westwardly with the said Kickapoo line and the Grand Nemahar, making
four hundred sections; to be divided between the said Ioways and
Missouri band of Sacks and Foxes, the lower half to the Sacks and Foxes,
and the upper half to the Ioways.
ARTICLE 3
The Ioways and Missouri band of Sacks and Foxes further agree, that they
will move and settle on the lands assigned them in the above article, as
soon as arrangements can be made by them; and the undersigned William
Clark, in behalf of the United States, agrees, that as soon as the above
tribes have selected a site for their villages, and places for their
fields, and moved to them, to erect for the Ioways five comfortable
houses, to enclose and break up for them two hundred acres of ground; to
furnish them with a farmer, a blacksmith, schoolmaster, and interpreter,
as long as the President of the United States may deem proper; to
furnish them such, agricultural implements as may be necessary, for five
years; to furnish them with rations for one year, commencing at the time
of their arrival at their new homes; to furnish them with one
ferry-boat; to furnish them with one hundred cows and calves and five
bulls, and one hundred stock hogs when they require them; to furnish
them with a mill and assist in removing them, to the extent of five
hundred dollars. And to erect for the Sacks and Foxes three comfortable
houses; to enclose and break up for them two hundred acres of ground; to
furnish them, with a farmer, blacksmith, schoolmaster, and interpreter,
as long as the President of the United States may deem proper; to
furnish them with such agricultural implements as may be necessary, for
five years; to furnish them with rations for one year, commencing at the
time of their arrival at their new home; to furnish them with one
ferry-boat; to furnish them with one hundred cows and calves and five
bulls, one hundred stock hogs when they require them; to furnish them
with a mill; and to assist in moving them, to the extent of four hundred
dollars.
ARTICLE 4
This treaty shall be obligatory on the tribes, parties hereto, from and
after the date hereof, and on the United States from and after its
ratification by the Government thereof.
TREATY WITH THE IOWA, NOV. 23, 1837
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