James Buchanan, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting
Subtitle: whereas a treaty was made and concluded at the treaty ground, Camp Stevens, in the Walla-Walla Valley, on the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between Isaac I. Stevens, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of Washington, and Joel Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon Territory, on the part of the United States, and the hereinafter-named chiefs, headmen and delegates of the Nez Perce Tribe of Indians occupying lands lying partly in Oregon and partly in Washington Territory, between the Cascade and Bitter Root mountains, on behalf of and duly authorized by said tribe ...
Contributors: Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862; Palmer, Joel, 1810-1881; United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan); Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library); Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Nez Percé Indians; Relocation; Treaties; Indian land transfers; Treaty Indian reservations; Indian Removal, 1813-1903; Indians of North America; Government relations
Other titles: Treaty between the United States of America and the Nez Perce Indians; Treaties between the US and the Indians.; American Indian histories and cultures.
Work titles: Treaties, etc
Notes: Title from caption.

"June 11, 1855. Ratified April 29, 1859."--Cover.

Ratified by the Senate Mar. 8, 1859; and signed by President Buchanan Apr. 29, 1859.

Edward E. Ayer Collection, Newberry Library

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