Transcript of Treaty: TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAW AND
CHICKASAW, 1854
…thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, at Doaksville, near
Fort Towson, in the Choctaw country, subject to the approval of the President
and the Senate of the United States.
ARTICLE 1.
It is agreed by the
Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, in lieu of the boundaries established
under article second of the convention and agreement entered into between said
tribes, January 17th, A.D. 1837, the Chickasaw district of the Choctaw nation
shall be bounded as follows, viz:
Beginning on the north bank of the Red
River, at the mouth of Island Bayou, where it empties into the Red River, about
twenty-six miles on a straight line, below the mouth of False Wachitta, thence
running a northwesterly course, along the main channel of said bayou to the
junction of three prongs of said bayou nearest the dividing ridge between
Wachitta and Low Blue rivers, as laid down upon Capt. R. L. Hunter’s map;
thence, northerly along the eastern prong of Island Bayou to its source; thence,
due north to the Canadian River, thence west, along the main Canadian, to one
hundred degrees west longitude; thence south to Red River, and down Red River to
the beginning:
Provided, however, if the line running due north from the
eastern source of Island Bayou to the main Canadian shall not include Allen’s or
Wa-pa-nucka academy in the Chickasaw district, then an offset shall be made from
said line so as to include said academy two miles west, and thence due north,
west, east, and south, to the said line of the Chickasaw district.
ARTICLE 2.
It is agreed by the Choctaws and the Chickasaws to employ a skillful surveyor or
engineer, who shall be selected by the chiefs of each district of the Choctaw
nation, to run and mark said line; and it is agreed that the Chickasaws shall
pay one-half of the expenses incurred in running out and marking said line; and
it is mutually agreed that the chiefs of each district of the Choctaw nation
shall appoint one commissioner to attend and supervise the running and marking
of said line; the chief of the Chickasaw district giving them at least thirty
days’ notice of the time when the surveyor or engineer will proceed to run out
and mark the line agreed upon; which shall be plainly marked upon trees, where
there is timber, and by permanent monuments of stone, at every mile, where there
is not sufficient timber upon which the line can be marked in a permanent
manner, before the first day of August, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-five.
In testimony whereof, the parties to this convention and
agreement have hereunto subscribed their names and affixed their seals.
Done
in triplicate at Doaksville, near Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, the day and year
first above written.
Thos. J. Pitchlynn, [L. S.]
Edmund McKenny, [L. S.]
R. M. Jones, [L. S.]
Daniel Folsom, [L. S.]
Samuel Garland, [L. S.]
Commissioners on the part of the Choctaws.
Edmund Pickens, [L. S.]
Benjamin S. Love, [L. S.]
James T. Gaines, [L. S.]
Sampson Folsom, [L. S.]
Edmund Perry, [L. S.]
Commissioners on the part of the Chickasaws.
In
presence of—
Geo. W. Harkins,
Peter Folsom,
Nicholas Cochnaner,
Jackson Frazier,
Chiefs of the Choctaw Nation.
Douglas H. Cooper, United
States Indian agent.
William K. McKean.
Marginal notes:
- Boundaries of
the Chickasaw district of the Choctaws.
- Line, how to be run and marked.