and when on the war-path against the Cai-a-was or other hostile Indians.

ARTICLE XXV. This convention shall be obligatory on the tribes and When this Con bands whose Chiefs and headmen sign the same, from the day of its date, vention to take and on the Confederate States from and after its ratification by the proper authority.

In perpetual testimony whereof, the said Albert Pike, as Commissioner, with plenary powers, of the Confederate States of America, to the Indian nations and tribes west of Arkansas, for and on behalf of the said Confederate States, doth now hereunto set his hand and affix the seal of his arms; and the undersigned Chiefs and headmen for and on behalf of their respective tribes and bands, do now hereunto respectively set their hands affix their seals.

SEAL.

Done at the Wichita Agency, aforesaid, on this the twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

ALBERT PIKE,

Commissioner of the Confederate States to the Indian Nations and
Tribes west of Arkansas.

M. LÚPER,

H. P. JONES,

Agent of the Confederate States for the CHARLES B. JOHNSON,

Wich-t-tas and other Bands.

MOTEY KINNARD,

Principal Chief of the Mus-ko-kis.

JOHN JUMPER,

Principal Chief the Seminoles.

To the Indian names are subjoined marks.

J. J. STURM,

WM. SHIRLEY,

W. H. FAULKNER,

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Schedule A.

SCHEDULE A.

Of articles of merchandize, &c., agreed to be furnished annually, under the foregoing convention to the Comanches, Wich-i-tas, Hue-cos, Cado-Hadachos, An-a-dagh-cos, Ta-hua-ca-ros, Ki-chais, Ai-o-nais, Shawnees and Delawares, living on reserves in the country leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws:

Blue drilling, warm coats, calico, plaid check, regatta cotton shirts, socks, hats, woolen shirts, red, white and blue blankets, red and blue list cloth, shawls and handkerchiefs, brown domestic, thread, yarn and twine, shoes, for men and women, white drilling, ribbons, assorted colors, beads, combs, camp kettles, tin cups and buckets, pans, coffee pots and dippers, needles, scissors and shears, butcher knives, large iron spoons, knives and forks, nails, hatchets and hammers, augers, drawing knives, gimlets, chopping axes, fish-hooks, ammunition, including powder, lead, flints and percussion caps, tobacco.

This is schedule A, of the treaty with the Pen-e-tegh-ca Band of Ne-um, and the Wich-i-tas and other bands, to which it is annexed as a part thereof.

SEAL.

ALBERT PIKE, Commissioner, &c.

Preamble,

ARTICLE STPPLEMENTARY

To the Convention between the Confederate States of America and the Pen-e-tegh-ca Band of Ne-um or Comanches, Wich-i-tas, Cado-Ha-dachos, and other Bands settled upon reserves, made and concluded at the Wich-i-ta Agency, near the False Washita river, on the twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

ARTICLE. It being well known to all surrounding_tribes and universally acknowledged, that, from time immemorial, the Ta-wa-i-hash people of Indians, now called,' by white men, the Wich-i-tas, and of whom the Hue-cos and Ta-hua-ca-ros are offshoots, possessed and inhabited, to the exclusion of all other tribes and bands of Indians, the whole country lying between the Red river and the False Washita, from their junc tion to the west of the Wich-i-ta mountains, and with the aid of the Ta-nei-weh Band of the Ne-um, held all that country against all comers, and had their villages and fields in the vallies of the Wich-i-ta mountains and upon the creeks, and there cultivated the soil, raised stock and led an industrious life; all which facts were known to the Commissioner of the Confederate States twenty-nine years ago.

And the United States of America, having, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty, and by subsequent renewals of the grant, ceded, the whole of that country to the Choctaws; and having afterwards, by patent, conveyed and assured the same to them in fee, and they having made the Chickasaws joint and equal owners of the same with themselves; whereby the same has been wholly lost to the Ta-wa-i-hash, except such small portion thereof as has been assigned to them by way of reserve; and no compensation whatever has been made them therefor, although they respectfully presented their claim on account of the same to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the United States, and appealed to that Government for payment of some reasonable price for their said country, to be paid them in such manner as should be most for their benefit and improvement;

And the Commissioner knowing that their claim to compensation is a just one, and seeing how poor and helpless they are, and being willing to save them from the necessity of employing persons to urge their claim, and of dividing with them what they may receive, but not deeming himself authorized to decide what amount shall be allowed them therefor, nor in what manner it shall be paid.

It is, therefore, hereby agreed by the Confederate States, that the Claim of the claim of the Ta-wa-i-hash or Wich-i-tas to compensation for their Wich-i-tus to compensation for their country, between the Red river and the False Washita, shall be subcountry between mitted to the President for his consideration, who, if he also agrees that the Red river and it is just, shall determine what amount shall be paid or allowed them in False Washita to be determined by Batisfaction thereof, and in what manner that amount shall be paid; and the President that amount shall accordingly be paid them in such manner as he shall

direct.

In testimony whereof, the said Albert Pike, Commissioner of the Confederate States of America to the Indian Nations and Tribes west of Arkansas, doth hereunto set his hand, on behalf of the said Confederate States, and affix the seal of his arms.

SEAL.

So done and signed and sealed, at Wich-i-ta Agency, near the False Wash-i-ta river, on the thirteenth day of August, in the year first aforesaid.

.ALBERT PIKE,

Commissioner of the Confederate States to the Indian Nations and
Tribes west of Arkansas.

WM. QUESENBURY,
Secretary to the Commissioner.

RATIFICATION.

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the foregoing treaty and supplementy st.13.

Resolved, (two-thirds of the Congress concurring,) That the Congress Ratification of of the Confederate States of America, do advise and consent to the ratification of the articles of a convention, made by Albert Pike, Commissioner of the Confederate States to the Indian Nations west of Arkansas, in behalf of the Confederate States, of the one part, and the Pen-e-tegh-ca Band of Ne-um or Comanches, and the Tribes and Bands of the Wichi-tas Cado-Ha-da-chos, Hue-cos, Ta-hau-ca-ros, An a-dagh,cos, Ton-cawes, Ai-o-wais, Ki-chais, Shawnees and Delawares, residing in the country leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws, each by its Chiefs and headmen, who signed the said articles, of the other part; concluded at the Wich-i-ta Agency, near the False Washita river, in the said leased country, on the twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. And that the Congress also advises and consents to the ratification of the supplementary article of the same Convention, made and concluded at the same time and place, by the said Commissioner in behalf the Confederate States, with the Ta-wai-hash or Wich-i-ta Band of Indians, with the amendments adopted, to wit: 1st. Strike out all of article nineteen.

2nd. Strike out all of article twenty-four.

TREATY WITH THE COMANCHES

OF THE PRAIRIES AND STAKED PLAIN.

AUGUST 12, 1861.

ARTICLES OF A CONVENTION,

Aug. 12, 1881. Entered into and concluded at the Wichita Agency, near the False Washita river, in the country leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws, on the twelfth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, between the Confederate States of America, by Albert Pike, their Commissioner, with full powers, appointed by the President, by virtue of an act of the Congress in that behalf, of the one part, and the Ne-co-ni, Ta-ne-i-we, Co-cho-tih-ca and Ya-pa-rih-ca bands of the Ne-um or Comanches of the Prairies and Staked Plain, by their Chiefs and head men who have signed these articles, on the other part.

The Comanches

ARTICLE I. The No-co-ni, Ta-nei-weh, Co-cho-tih-ca and Ya-pa-rih-ca make peace with bands of the Ne-um, called by the white men the Comanches of the and place themselves under the Prairies and the Staked Plain, do hereby make peace with the Confederate protection of the States of America, and do renew and continue the peace heretofore

C. S.

existing between them and the Cherokee, Mus-ko-ki, Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of red men, and do hereby take each and all of them by the hand of friendship, having smoked with them the pipe of peace, and received the wampum of peace; and do hereby place themselves under the laws and protection of the Confederate States of America, and agree to be true and loyal to them in peace and in war forever, and to hold them by the hand, and have but one heart with them always. ARTICLE II. The Confederate States of America do hereby promise sume the protec- and engage themselves to be, during all time, the friends and protectors of the No-co-ni, the Ta-ne-i-weh, Ya-pa-rih-ca and Co-cho-tih-ca bands of the Ne-um, and that they will not allow them to be molested by any power or people, State or person whatever.

The C S. as

torate.

Settlement upon

reserves.

ARTICLE III. The No-co-ni, Ta-ne-i-we, Ya-pa-rih-ca and Co-cho-tihca bands of the Ne-um hereby agree that they will abandon their wandering mode of life and come in from the Prairies and Staked Plain, and settle upon reserves to be allotted to them in that country which lies north of the Red river and south of the Canadian, and between the ninety-eighth and one hundredth parallels of west longitude, and which has been leased for them and other tribes of red men, by the Confederate States from the Choctaws and Chickasaws, and in which the Confederate States have offered all the Ne-um homes.

homes.

ARTICLE IV. The No-co ni, Ta-ne-i-weh, Ya-pa-rih-ca and Co-cho-tih-ca Indians allowed bands of the Ne-um shall be allowed to choose their own homes, in any to choose their owa unoccupied part of the said leased country, on or near the Canadian or False Washita rivers, or near the Wich-i-ta mountains, as may best suit them, with the concurrence and assent of the agent of the Confederate States for the reserve Indians. Each reserve shall be of sufficient extent of Extent of each arable and grazing lands, amply to supply their needs; and the bands reserve. may have one reserve together, or four separate reserves, as they may choose. The reserve or reserves shall, as far as practicable, be defined by the natural boundaries that may be described; and so far as this is not practicable, by permanent monuments and definite courses and distances; and full and authentic descriptions of the reserves shall be made out and reserved by the Confederate States.

Reserves, how defined.

Right of proper

ARTICLE V. The said No-co-ni, Ta-ne-i-weh, Ya-pa-rih-ca and Co-chotih-ca bands of the Ne-um shall have the right to possess, occupy and ty in reserve, use the reserve or reserves allotted to them as long as grass shall grow or water run; and the reserves shall be their own property, like their horses and cattle.

ARTICLE VI. The members of the said No-co-ni, Ta-ne-i-weh, Ya-parih-ca and Co-cho-tih-ca bands of the Ne-um shall have the right, during all time, to hunt and kill game in all the unoccupied part of said leased country without let or molestation from any quarter.

Hunting and killing of game.

for

ARTICLE VII. There shall be perpetual peace and brotherhood between Perpetual peace the No-co-ni, Ta-ne-i-weh, Ya-pa-rih-ca and Co-cho-tih-ca bands of the and brotherhood. Ne-um, and between each of them and all the other tribes and bands of the Ne-um and of the Wich-i-ta, Ca-do-ha-da-chos, Hue co, Au-a-daghco, Ki-chai, Ai-o-nai, Ta-hua-ca-ro, Ton-ca-we, Shawnee and Delaware Indians, occupying reserves in the said leased country, and any other bands of the Ne-um that may hereafter settle in said leased country, and every injury or act of hostility which either has heretofore sus Injuries, &c., tained at the hands of the other, shall be forgiven and forgotten forever. given. ARTICLE VIII. The said several tribes and bands of the Ne-um, and Tribes and bands the said other tribes and bands, shall henceforth be good neighbors to to be good neigheach other, and there shall be free and friendly intercourse among them. And it is hereby agreed by the said four bands of the Ne-um, that the horses, cattle and other stock and property of every tribe or band, and every person of each, is his or its own, and that no one of said four tribes or bands, nor any person belonging to any one of them, shall or will hereafter kill, take away or injure any such property of another tribe or band, or of any member of any other tribe or band, or in any other way do them any harm.

bors to each other.

Right of property in horses. cat

tle and stock.

and brotherhood

ARTICLE IX. There shall be perpetual peace and brotherhood between Perpetual peace each and all of the No-co-ni, Ta-ne-i-weh, Ya-pa-rih-ca and Co-cho-tih-ca between certain bands of the Ne-um, and the Cherokee, Mus-ko-ki, Seminole, Choctaw tribes and bands. and Chickasaw Nations; and the chiefs and bead men of each of the said Return of stolen bands shall do all in their power to take and return any negroes, horses property. or other property stolen from white men or from persons belonging to the Cherokee, Mus-ko-ki, Seminole, Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations, and to Apprehension catch and give up any person among them who may kill or steal or do and delivery of any other very bad thing.

wrong doer.

the Indians and

ARTICLE X. It is distinctly understood by the said four bands of the Hostilities and Ne-um, that the State of Texas is one of the Confederate States, and enmities between joins in this Convention, and signs it when the Commissioner signs it, State of Texas, and is bound by it; and that all hostilities and enmities between it and forgotten and forthem are now ended, and are to be forgotten and forgiven forever on given

both sides.

ARTICLE XI. None of the braves of the said four bands of the Ne-um