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James Buchanan, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas a treaty was made and concluded at the treaty ground, Camp Stevens, Walla-Walla Valley, on the ninth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between Isaac I. Stevens, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of Washington, on the part of the United States, and the hereinafter named head chief, chiefs, headmen and delegates of the Yakama, Palouse, Pisquouse, Wenatshapam, Klikatat, Klinquit, Kow-was-say-ee, Li-ay-was, Skin-pah, Wish-ham, Shyiks, Oche-chotes, Kah-milt-pah, and Se-ap-cat, confederate tribes and bands of Indians, occupying lands lying in Washington Territory who, for the purposes of this treaty are to be considered as one nation, under the name of "Yakama", with Kamaiakun as its Head Chief ...
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation of the Yakama Reservation.
- Standardized Title:
- Treaties, etc. United States, 1855 June 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation of the Yakama Reservation.
- Shahaptian Indians--Treaties.
- Shahaptian Indians.
- Indian land transfers--Washington (State).
- Indian land transfers.
- Shahaptian Indians--Relocation--Washington (State).
- Treaty Indian reservations--Washington (State).
- Treaty Indian reservations.
- Indian Removal, 1813-1903.
- Indians of North America--Government relations--1789-1869.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (8 pages)
- Other Title:
- Treaty between the United States and the Yakama Nation of Indians
- Title on publisher's website: Treaties between the US and the Indians. 129
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C. : publisher not identified, 1859]
- Notes:
- Indigenous Histories and Cultures in North America was originally published in 2013, as American Indian Histories and Cultures. The title was changed in 2024.
- Title from caption.
- "June 9, 1855. Ratified March 8, 1859."--Cover.
- Ratified by the Senate Mar. 8, 1859; and signed by President Buchanan Apr. 18, 1859.
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