Washington telegraph., 1851-02-12
BY AUTH O.RIT Y.
,r-e.tv with the Wyandot Tribe of Indians
MILLARD FILLMORE

come, greeting:
Whereas a treaty was made and concluded in
.bs city of Washington, on the first day of April,
-. tbousaud eight hundred and fifty, by and be-
,wsen Ardavan s. Loughery, Commissioner espe-
';aIv appointed by the President of the United
safes. of the one part, and the undersigned, Head
Chief and Deputies of the Wyandot Tribe of Indi-
ans duly authorized and empowered to act for
their tribe of the other part which treaty is in the
words following, TO wit:
ar,;cIes of a Convention concluded in the city of
washington, this first day Of April thou
.oud EIGHT hundred and fifty, by and bettoeen
Ardapan s. Loughery. Commissioner especially
appointed by the President of the United States,
and the undersigned, Head Chief and Deputies
the Wyandot Tribe of Indians, duly author
ised and empowered to act for their tribe.
rWbereas the people composing the Wyandot
tribe or nation of Indians, have manifested an
anxious desire to extinguish their tribal or national
character and become citizens OF the United
States-b believing their condition will, thereby,
NOT only be ameliorated, but their welfare and
prosperity greatly promoted. They have arrived
At this conviction in view of the fact that new
territory will, at no distant period be organized by
the Government of the United States, which will
embrace within its Iirli,s their present lands aud
nossessions and thus they will again be surround
I'd bv citizens of the United States. After a foil
-consuItat with their people. and upon mature
s-sAection the undersigned representatives OF the
Wyandot nation entertain the belief, that the
evil effects always TO be apprehended from such a
state of things will be avoided by their becoming
citizens of the United States, and having the
lands aud other property accruing under treaty
stpuatons, now held in common by their people,
fairly and equally divided among the individual
wu,rs and secured TO them in SeDerGtitY:
And whereas, by the first article of the treaty
concluded between the United States and the
Wyandot nation or tribe of Indians, on the 18th
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-two the said nation ceded and reinquished
TO the United States all the lands and possessions
uwned or claimed by them, within the limits of
the States Of Ohio and Michgan-in considera-
,ion of which cessiou. the United States, by the
second article of the treaty aforesaid stpulate and
aor,e to grant to the Wyandot nation a tract of
land west of the Mississippi river, 10 contain one
hundred and forty eight thousand acres and to be
located upon any lands owned BY the United
States now set apart, or may III future set apart,
for Indian use, and not already assigned to any
other tribe or nation" Aud in further consdera-
lion of the aforesaid cession by the Wyandot
lion. the United States by the third and succeed
ing articles Of said sreatY, agree sto pay the Wy
andot nation perpetual annuity of seventeen
thousand five hundred dollars (Sl7 ,50O) in spe-
cie" besides making other provision for the bene-
fit of said uation us follows: Blacksmith and as
sistant S7J0-iron and steel for shop, S27O-
and for education purposes, $5OO-all of which
TO be furnished and paid annually. 1t being ex-
pressy stipulated in the third article OF the treaty
before mentioned, that the annuity of seventeen
thousand hve hundred dollars, should INCLUDE
AL former dnnu1ties
And, whereas, the Wyandot tribe of Indians
were not put in possession of the one hundred and
forty eight thousand acres of land, as stipulated
in the second article OF the Treaty aforesaid; and
they aver that in consequences of the Utlted
States having failed TO comply with that stipula-
ton, by not designating and conveying 20 them
country fl, for farming purposes and suited to
their wants, they compelled to purchase a
home, Of which they were then destitute, fran
another tribe of Indians Accordingly the
fourteenth day of d ce lber, one thousand eight
hundred and forty three, they entered into con-
tract with the Delaware nation of Indians, by
which they purchased OF the last mentioned nation
Of land containing thirty-six sections, (or
twenty three thousand aud forty acres,) and had
granted to them, dOnation, three sections,
(or nineteen hundred and twenty acres,) in ad-
dlon, as set forth in the lst and I'd articles Of said
contract or treaty, wherein these two tracts or
sections Of land described follows: "Three
sections of land, containing SIX hundred and ,orty
acres each, lying aud being situated at the point
of the junction Of the Missouri and Kansas rivers,
and the ''thrty-six sections of land, each con-
tanning $40 acres, situated between the aforesaid
Missouri and Kansas rivers, and adjoining on the
west the aforesaid three donated sections, making
i'll all thirty nine sections of land, bounded as fol-
lows VIZ: Commencing at the point at the june
ton of the aforesaid Missouri and Kansas rivers,
running west along the Kansas river sufficiently
far TO include the aforesaid thlrty-n.ne sections;
thence running north 10 the Missouri river; thence
"A
OF beginning; to be surveyed in square
form the rivers and territory ceded Will ad-
NIT off,
Aud. whereas, this said contract or treaty was
ratified and confirmed by the United States, by d
joiut resolution of Congress approved July %,
lS4S; aud which contains only tie following
proriso: "That the Wyandot Indian nation shall
take no better right interest in and to said
lands than rs noU Uested IN the DeLaWare nation
Of Indians"
The Represent atves of the Wyandot nation,
therefore, present claim against the United
States for the price of one hundred and forty eight
thousand acres of land granted by the 2d article
Of the aforesaid treaty OF March II, IS42--hxing
that price at one dollar and twenty five cents per
acre--and which claim, they conceive, is strength
ened if not rendered valid, by the recognition of
their purchase from the Delaware Indians on the
part of the United States. shown by the reso-
luton con6rmatory thereof, above cited. And
they now ask that the sum Of one hundred and
eighty>iye thousand dollars be allowed and paid
to the Wyandot people in commuta,ion Of said
claim.
And, whereas, the Commissioner on behalf OF
the United States, having carefully and atten-
lively examined the application presented to him
on behalf of the WyandOt nation both IN regard
to their desire to become citizens Of the United
States, and of their claim for payment, in money,
for the lands granted to them by the treaty of
lS42; and having also examined the public docu
ments and other proofs. having reference to the
subject, he is induced to believe, frst--that the
Wyandot people have far advanced in civili-
zation as to be capable, generally, of managing
their own affairs, and qualified and calculated
to become useful citizens, "a large portion whereof
being already engaged in agricultural pursuits;
and secondly that thew have an equitable claim