Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-11-14
Texas, into this western part of the Choctaw

and Chickasaw country.
 Besides the Chiefs and many Warriors of these bands, which number in all about 2,500, there were present party of 40 of the wild Caman- ches, or the Ne. um, as they term themselves These were from four bands-the Noconis, the Ta-nei-we, the Ya-pa-rih cas and the Co-cho-tih- cas.
 with the Chiefs of these four bands, and one with the Reserve Indians. The scenes that proceed ed this were quite interesting; and the confidence displayed by the wild Chiefs, considering all that had occurred, was extraordinary. When Maj. Van Dorn, in 1859, attacked at Rush Creek the camp of the Camanches who had been invited in by the commanding officer at Ft. Arbuckle to talk peacefully and settle terms of friendship, Qui-na-hi-w, or the Drinking Eagle, Chief ot the Noconis, was among those attacked, and gallop- ed away describing circles with his hand in front of his forehead an action equivalent to an oath ot eternal hostility. This same Chief was present and signed the new treaty.
 The talk of the Commissioner, given to these
 
 a grove of trees near the Agency house, on the sandy bank of a little brook that runs from the hills in the rear of the Agency to the False Washta. The first ceremony was to give the right hand of fellowship. The Comanches stood in curved line, near the seats, and first the Commissioner, and then the Superintendent, fol- lowed by the Creek and Seminole principal chiefs, and they by the other members of the delegations, shook hands with, and were sever ally embraced and vigorously hugged by each of the Comanches, many an ejaculation from whom testified their qualification. Then the talk was made, each sentence, as 1t was slowly uttered in English, being immediate ly translated into the five or six languages spok en; al including the Spanish to the Tone a-wes, being spoken at once.
 When the Indians had on the next day, sig nifed their willingness to adhere to the South, the treaties were prepared, and each read and in terpreted to the Indians, seated in two circles on | the ground.
 l The four bands of the Comanches agree, by their treaty, to abandon their wandering life, | and to come in and settle on reserves In the | leased country. between the Canadian and Red rivers: and also to visit the other bands and in vte them to do the same.
 | For the curious in Indian names, we note that | Noconi means the people that travel away of and come round back again Taneiwe, the liver eaters; Ya.pa. rih-ca, the people that eat root called Yap; Co-chotih ca, the eaters of Buffalo; and Peneteghca, the Honey eaters. There are four or five other bands, the Mocha, Kew win che nah, Tich aih hene, Paabo, and perhaps others. Some of these were in the staked Plains, ,and others to the north westward, near the Rocky Mountains, where the treaty was made; and are not yet heard from.
 Mr. Commissioner Pike was greatly aided in these negotiations by the presence and talks of Mott Kinnaird or A wali-co Chap-co, Principal Chief of the Creeks, Chilly Mcintosh, or Octai- a chi Tus .ti-nuk Ri, War Captain of the Creeks, and the other delegates, and of the Indian escort It was a new thing to these wild Chiefs, evidently much impres5ing them, to see Indians in our service as soldiers, and their chefs riding in | carriages and dispensing presents; and more over the assurances of these gave them the surcst guarantee ofthe good faith of the Com missioner.
 From the Reserve Agency, the Commissioner, with his own party and escort, and some forty Comanches, went further west, about seventy five miles from the agency, to the west end of the range of limestone hills that runs west south westwardly, from the north side of the principal mountain of the Wichita range. to a dis tance of about sixty miles. His intention was to turn the hills and explore the valleys on the south side of the mountains, to know by personal inspection how far they were adapted for settle ment and cultivation. A severe attack of illness compelled his return, without going south of the mountains.
 Returning to the Reserve Agency on the 26th of August, he reached Ft. Arbuckle, on the homeward route, upon the 2d of September- Before arriving at that post, he met messengers sent by the Chief and Executive Council of the | Cherokees to invite him to enter into negoca- tions for treaty. A convention of the Chero- kee nation, held at Tahlequah, had determined that the position of neutrality should be aband- oned, and had committed the power of negoc- ating treaty with the Confederate States to the authorities of the Nation.
 The invitation was accepted by the Commis sioner, and the 25th of September fixed by him as the time for meeting the Cherokee authorities at Park Hill. Dismissing his escort at It. Ar buckle, he reached Park Hill on the 24th of September. There he was met by delegations of the Osages Quapaws, Senecas and Shawnees whom he had invited through Mr. Ross to meet him.
 On the 2d of October he concluded conven tion of peace and friendship with the great Osage band on the 4th, with the Quapaws. Senecas and Shawnees, and on the 7th treaty with the Cherokee5 and reached Fort Smith on his return the l4th of October
 By the treaties thus negotiated, all the Indian nations, tribes and bands between Kansas and Red river have placed themselves under the protection of the Confederate States, and be- come their allies and wards. The whole Indian country west of Arkansas, is thus secured to us. Under these treaties, the Cherokaes, a people who originally inhabited parts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, now numbering about 22,O00 per c.1