Franklin Pierce, 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 on the She-nah-nam, or Medicine Creek, in the Territory of Washington, on the twenty-sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, between the United States of America and the Nisqually and other bands of Indians ...
Contributors: United States. President (1853-1857 : Pierce); Nisqually Indian Tribe of the Nisqually Reservation, Washington; Puyallup Tribe of the Puyallup Reservation, Washington; Edward E. Ayer Collection (Newberry Library); Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1855
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Coast Salish Indians; Treaties; Indian land transfers; Relocation; Treaty Indian reservations; Indian Removal, 1813-1903; Indians of North America; Government relations
Other titles: Treaty between the United States of America and the Nisqually and other bands of Indians; Treaties between the US and the Indians.; American Indian histories and cultures.
Work titles: Treaty of Medicine Creek (1854)
Notes: Title from caption.

Treaty signed by Isaac I. Stevens, on behalf of the United States, and delegates of the "Nisqually, Puyallup, Steilacoom, Squawksin, S'Homamish, Steh-chass, T'Peek-sin, Squi-aitl, and Sa-heh-wamish tribes and bands of Indians ..."--P. [2]

Ratified by the Senate Mar. 3, 1855; and signed by President Pierce Apr. 10, 1855.

Edward E. Ayer Collection, Newberry Library

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