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, 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 ...
Contributors: Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862; 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: Shahaptian Indians; Treaties; Indian land transfers; Relocation; Treaty Indian reservations; Indian Removal, 1813-1903; Indians of North America; Government relations; Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation of the Yakama Reservation
Other titles: Treaty between the United States and the Yakama Nation of Indians; Treaties between the US and the Indians.; American Indian histories and cultures.
Work titles: Treaties, etc
Notes: 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.

Edward E. Ayer Collection, Newberry Library

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