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Treaty
With the Kiowa, Comanche, and
Apache October
21, 1867 Articles of a treaty concluded at
the Council Camp on Medicine Lodge
Creek, seventy miles south of Fort
Larned, in the State of Kansas, on the
twenty-first day of October, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, by and between
the United States of America,
represented by its commissioners duly
appointed thereto to-wit: Nathaniel G.
Taylor, William S. Harney, C. C. Augur,
Alfred S. (H). Terry, John B. Sanborn,
Samuel F. Tappan, and J. B. Henderson,
of the one part, and the Kiowa,
Comanche, and Apache Indians,
represented by their chiefs and headmen
duly authorized and empowered to act
for the body of the people of said
tribes (the names of said chiefs and
headmen being hereto subscribed) of the
other part, witness: Whereas, on the twenty-first day
of October, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, a treaty of peace was made
and entered into at the Council Camp,
on Medicine Lodge Creek, seventy miles
south of Fort Larned, in the State of
Kansas, by and between the United
States of America, by its commissioners
Nathaniel G. Taylor, William S. Harney,
C. C. Augur, Alfred H. Terry, John B.
Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, and J. B.
Henderson, of the one part, and the
Kiowa and Comanche tribes of Indians,
of the Upper Arkansas, by and through
their chiefs and headmen whose names
are subscribed thereto, of the other
part, reference being had to said
treaty; and whereas, since the making
and signing of said treaty, at a
council held at said camp on this day,
the chiefs and headmen of the Apache
nation or tribe of Indians express to
the commissioners on the part of the
United States, as aforesaid, a wish to
be confederated with the said Kiowa and
Comanche tribes, and to be placed, in
every respect, upon an equal footing
with said tribes; and whereas, at a
council held at the same place and on
the same day, with the chiefs and
headmen of the said Kiowa and Comanche
Tribes, they consent to the
confederation of the said Apache tribe,
as desired by it, upon the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth in
this supplementary treaty: Now,
therefore, it is hereby stipulated and
agreed by and between the aforesaid
commissioners, on the part of the
United States, and the chiefs and
headmen of the Kiowa and Comanche
tribes, and, also, the chiefs and
headmen of the said Apache tribe, as
follows, to-wit: ARTICLE 1. The said Apache tribe of Indians
agree to confederate and become
incorporated with the said Kiowa and
Comanche Indians, and to accept as
their permanent home the reservation
described in the aforesaid treaty with
said Kiowa and Comanche tribes,
concluded as aforesaid at this place,
and they pledge themselves to make no
permanent settlement at any place, nor
on any lands, outside of said
reservation. ARTICLE 2. The Kiowa and Comanche tribes, on
their part, agree that all the benefits
and advantages arising from the
employment of physicians, teachers,
carpenters, millers, engineers,
farmers, and blacksmiths, agreed to be
furnished under the provisions of their
said treaty, together with all the
advantages to be derived from the
construction of agency buildings,
warehouses, mills, and other
structures, and also from the
establishment of schools upon their
said reservation, shall be jointly and
equally shared and enjoyed by the said
Apache Indians, as though they had been
originally a part of said tribes; and
they further agree that all other
benefits arising from said treaty shall
be jointly and equally shared as
aforesaid. ARTICLE 3. The United States, on its part,
agrees that clothing and other articles
named in Article X. of said original
treaty, together with all money or
other annuities agreed to be furnished
under any of the provisions of said
treaty, to the Kiowa and Comanches,
shall be shared equally by the Apaches.
In all cases where specific articles of
clothing are agreed to be furnished to
the Kiowas and Comanches, similar
articles shall be furnished to the
Apaches, and a separate census of the
Apaches shall be annually taken and
returned by the agent, as provided for
the other tribes. And the United States
further agrees, in consideration of the
incorporation of said Apaches, to
increase the annual appropriation of
money, as provided for in Article X. of
said treaty, from twenty-five thousand
to thirty thousand dollars; and the
latter amount shall be annually
appropriated, for the period therein
named, for the use and benefit of said
three tribes, confederated as herein
declared; and the clothing and other
annuities, which may from time to time
be furnished to the Apaches, shall be
based upon the census of the three
tribes, annually to be taken by the
agent, and shall be separately marked,
forwarded, and delivered to them at the
agency house, to be built under the
provisions of said original treaty. ARTICLE 4. In consideration of the advantages
conferred by this supplementary treaty
upon the the Apache tribe of Indians,
they agree to observe and faithfully
comply with all the stipulations and
agreements entered into by the Kiowas
and Comanches in said original treaty.
They agree, in the same manner, to keep
the peace toward the whites and all
other persons under the jurisdiction of
the United States, and to do and
perform all other things enjoined upon
said tribes by the provisions of said
treaty; and they hereby give up and
forever relinquish to the United States
all rights, privileges, and grants now
vested in them, or intended to be
transferred to them, by the treaty
between the United States and the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of
Indians, concluded at the camp on the
Little Arkansas River, in the State of
Kansas, on the fourteenth day of
October, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-five, and also by the
supplementary treaty, concluded at the
same place on the seventeenth day of
the same month, between the United
States, of the one part, and the
Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and Apache tribes,
of the other part. In testimony of all which, the said
parties have hereunto set their hands
and seals at the place and on the day
herein before stated. N. G. Taylor, President of Indian Commission. Wm. S. Harney, Brevet Major-General, Commissioner,
&c. C. C. Augur, Brevet Major-General. Alfred H. Terry, Brevet Major-General and
Brigadier-General. John B. Sanborn. Samuel F. Tappan. J. B. Henderson. On the part of the Kiowas: Satanka, or Sitting Bear, his x
mark, Sa-tan-ta, or White Bear, his x
mark, Wah-toh-konk, or Black Eagle, his x
mark, Ton-a-en-ko, or Kicking Eagle, his x
mark, Fish-e-more, or Stinking Saddle, his
x mark, Ma-ye-tin, or Woman's Heart, his x
mark, Sa-tim-gear, or Stumbling Bear, his
x mark, Sa-pa-ga, or One Bear, his x
mark, Cor-beau, or The Crow, his x
mark, Sa-ta-more, or Bear Lying Down, his
x mark, On the part of the Comanches: Parry-wah-say-men, or Ten Bears, his
x mark, Tep-pe-navon, or Painted Lips, his x
mark, To-she-wi, or Silver Brooch, his x
mark, Cear-chi-neka, or Standing Feather,
his x mark, Ho-we-ar, or Gap in the Woods, his x
mark, Tir-ha-yah-gua-hip, or Horse's Back,
his x mark, Es-a-man-a-ca, or Wolf's Name, his x
mark, Ah-te-es-ta, or Little Horn, his x
mark, Pooh-yah-to-yeh-be, or Iron
Mountain, his x mark, Sad-dy-yo, or Dog Fat, his x
mark, On the part of the Apaches: Mah-vip-pah, Wolf's Sleeve, his x
mark, Kon-zhon-ta-co, Poor Bear, his x
mark, Cho-se-ta, or Bad Back, his x
mark, Nah-tan, or Brave Man, his x
mark, Ba-zhe-ech, Iron Shirt, his x
mark, Til-la-ka, or White Horn, his x
mark, Attest: Ashton S. H. White, secretary. Geo. B. Willis, reporter. Philip McCusker, interpreter. John D. Howland, clerk Indian
Commission. Sam'l S. Smoot, United States
surveyor. A. A. Taylor. J. H. Leavenworth, United States
Indian agent. Thos. Murphy, superintendent Indian
affairs. Joel H. Elliott, major, Seventh U.S.
Cavalry. Indian Affairs : Laws and
Treaties Vol II (Treaties) Compiled and Edited By Charles
J. Kappler LL. M. Clerk to the Senate Committee
on Indian Affairs Washington, DC : Government
Printing Office, 1904 "The
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