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 Edited By: Angelic Saulsberry
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Courtesy of Louis F. Burns
It is not generally known that the Osage entered into a treaty with
the Confederate government, but the following from the records in
the possession of the Oklahoma Historical Society is authentic.
It will be noticed that the Little Osage did not join in the treaty,
but provision was made for them to do so later, but they never
accepted the proposition. Pah-hu-scah signed, together
with all his sub-chiefs, but never went South, and later he allied
his band with the Union troops at Ft. Scott; while Little Bear,
chief of the Little Osage, joined the 9th Kansas
Infantry, which was mounted for a part of the time and is known in
the records both as infantry and as cavalry. The only bands of
Osage that joined the Confederate army were Black Dog’s band and
the Grah-moie band under Big Chief.
The Confederate government violated its part of the treaty in its
failure to comply with its promises. The following excerpt
from a letter of S. S. Scott, commissioner to the Indian tribes to
the Secretary of War at Richmond, under date of January 12, 1863,
fully explains the feelings of the Osage:
“In the month of August of that year (1862), information from
sources entitled to credit was communicated to the Confederate
government of a nature calculated to excite some apprehensions on
its part with regard to the permanency of its relations with certain
of the Indian tribes. Regarding the conditions and feelings of
small tribes located in the northeast corner of the Indian
country—Osages, Quapaws, Senecas and Seneca Shawnees—but little
is known. Their country, exposed to invasion by the Kansas
desperadoes, has been under the control of the North almost from the
date of their having entered into treaties with this government.
On account of this, 150 families of the Great Osages left their
homes long ago and took refuge with the Creeks. Three of the
leading men of these—Black Dog and two others—visited me at Fort
Smith on the line of Arkansas and the Indian country. They
seemed to believe that the majority of the Osages were still true
and loyal, although fear kept them from making any decided
manifestation of it. They assure me that no acts of hostility
had been perpetrated upon the Confederate States. The other
bands had sided with the enemy.”
Articles of a Convention entered into and concluded at Park Hill, in
the Cherokee Nation, on the second day of October, A. D., one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, between the Confederate States
of America, by Albert Pike, their commissioner, with full powers,
appointed by the President, by virtue of an Act of the Congress in
that behalf, of the one part, and the Great Osage tribe of Indians,
by its chiefs and head men, who have signed these articles of the
other part.
ARTICLE
I. The Great Osage tribe of Indians, and all the persons
thereof do hereby place themselves under the laws and protection of
the Confederate States of America, in peace and war, forever and
agree to be true and loyal to them under all circumstances.
ART.
II. The Confederate States of America do hereby promis and
firmly engage themselves to be, during all time, the friends and
protectors of the Great Osage tribe of Indians, and to defend and
secure them in the the enjoyment of all their rights; and that they
will not allow them henceforward to be in any wise troubled or
mokested by any power or people, state or person whatever.
ART.
III. The Confederate States of America do hereby assure and
guarantee to the Great and Little Osage tribes of Indians the
exclusive and undisturbed possession, use and occupancy during all
time, as long as grass shall grow and water run, of the country
heretofore secured to them by treaty with the United States of
America, and which is described in the treaty of the second day of
June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, as being
bounded thus, that is to say: Beginning at a point due east of
White Hair’s village, and twenty-five miles west of the western
boundary line of the State of Missouri, fronting on a north and
south line, so as to leave ten miles north and forty miles south of
the point of said beginning, and extending west, with a width of
fifty miles, to the western boundary of the lands ceded and
relinquished by said nations by that treaty, which lands shall not
be sold or ceded by the said tribes, nor shall any part thereof, to
any nation or people, except to the Confederate States, or any
individuals whatever; and the same shall vest in the Confederate
States in case the said tribes become extinct or abandon the same.
ART.
IV. The right is hereby reserved by the Confederate States to
select, in any unoccupied part of said country, a tract of two
sections of land, as a reserve and site for an agency for the said
tribes, which shall revert to the said tribes whenever it shall
cease to be occupied by an agency.
ART.
V. The Confederate States shall have the right to establish in
the said country such forts and military posts as they may deem
necessary, and shall have the right to select for each such fort or
post a tract of land one mile square, on which such fort or post
shall be established: Provided, That is any person or
persons have any improvements on any tract so selected, the value of
such improvements shall be paid by the Government to the owner
thereof.
ART.
VI. No person shall be permitted to settle or reside upon the
agency reserve when it shall have been selected except by the
permission of the agency nor upon any reserve for a fort or military
post, except by the permission of the commanding officer; any such
reserve, for the agency or the forts or military posts, shall be
within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the Confederate
States.
ART.
VII. The Confederate States shall forever have the right of
free navigation of all navigable streams and water courses within or
running through the country hereby assured and guaranteed to said
tribes.
ART.
VIII. The Confederate States hereby guarantee that the country
hereby secured to the said Great and Little Osages shall never be
included within the bounds of any state or territory, nor shall any
of the laws of any state or territory ever be extended over or put
into force within any part of the said country and the President of
the Confederate States will cause the said tribes to be protected
against all molestations or disturbance at the hands of any other
tribe or nation of Indians, or any other person whatever; and shall
have the same care and superintendence over them as was theretofore
had by the President of the United States.
ART.
IX. The members of the said Great and Little Osage tribes of
Indians shall have the right henceforward of hunting and killing
game in all unoccupied country west of the possessions of the
Cherokees, Seminoles, Choctaws and Chickasaws, without molestation
from any quarter, being, while engaged therein, under the protection
of the Confederate States.
ART.
X. There shall be perpetual peace and brotherhood between the
Great and Little Osage tribes of Indians and the Cherokees,
Mus-ko-kis, Seminole, Choctaws, and Chickasaws, and the bands of
Wichitas, Cado-Ha-da-chos, Ta-hua-ca-ros, A-na-dag-cos, Ton-ca-wes,
Ki-chais, Ai-o-nais, Shawnees, and Delawares living in the country
leased from the Choctaws and Chickasaws, and the Pen-e-tegh-ca,
No-co-ni, Ta-ne-iweh, Ya-pa-ri-ca, and Co-cho-tih-ca bands of the Ne-um
or Comanches; and every injury and act of hostility which either has
heretofore sustained or met with at the hands of the others shall be
forgiven and forgotten.
ART.
XI. The Great and Little Osage tribes of Indians and the
several other nations, tribes, and bands shall henceforth be good
neighbors to each other, and there shall be a free and friendly
intercourse among them. And it is hereby agreed by the said
Great Osage tribe, that the horses, cattle, and other stock and
property of each nation, tribe, or band, and of every person of
such, is his or its own; and that no person belonging to the Great
Osage tribe shall, or will hereafter kill, take away, or injure any
such property of another tribe or band, or of any other tribe or
band, or in any other way do them harm.
ART.
XII. Especially shall there be perpetual peace and friendship
between said Great Osage tribe and the Cherokees, Mus-ko-kis,
Seminoles, Choctaws and Chickasaws, and the chiefs and headmen of
the said Great Osage tribe shall do all in their power to take and
restore any Negroes, horses, or other property stolen from white
men, or from persons belonging to either of said five nations, and
to catch and give up any person among them who may kill or steal, or
do any other evil act.
ART.
XIII. In order that the friendship now established between the
said Great Osage tribe of Indians and the Confederate States and the
other Indian Nations, tribe and bands aforesaid, may not be
interrupted by the misconduct of individuals, it is hereby agreed
that if injury is done by individuals, no private revenge or
retaliation shall take place, but instead thereof complaint shall be
made by the said Great Osage tribe of Indians, when any individual
thereof is injured, to the agent of the Confederate States for the
Osages and other tribes, who shall investigate the complaint, and,
if he finds it well founded, shall report the same to the
superintendent, who will cause the wrong to be redressed, and the
person or persons doing the wrong to be arrested, whether he be a
white man or an Indians; and he shall be tried for the same
agreeably to the laws of the Confederate States or of the State or
Territory against which he may have offended, and be punished in the
same manner and with the same severity as if the injury had been
done to a white man. And it is also agreed that if any member
of the Great Osage tribe shall do any injury to property of any
white man or of any member of any other Indian nation or tribe under
the protections of the Confederate States, the offender shall be
given up to the agent, the wrong shall be redressed by him, and the
offender be tried for the offense agreeably to the laws of the
Confederate States, or of the state, territory or nation against
which he may have offended; provided, that he shall be punished in
no other manner nor with any greater severity than a citizen of the
Confederate States, or of such state, territory or nation would be,
if he had committed the same offense.
ART.
XIV. It is hereby further agreed that the chiefs of the Great
Osage tribe shall use every exertion in their power to recover any
horses or other property that may be stolen from any citizen of the
Confederate States or from any member of any other Indian tribe
under the protection of the Confederate States by any person
whatever, and when found within the limits of their country; and the
property so recovered shall be forthwith delivered to the owner or
to the agent to be restored to him. If in any case the right
to the property claimed is contested by the person in possession,
the agent shall summarily investigate the case, and upon hearing the
testimony of witness, shall decide the right to the property, and
order it to be retained or delivered up accordingly. Either
party may appeal from his decision to the superintendent, whose
decision shall be final in all cases, the property, in the meantime,
remaining in the custody of the agent. If in any case the
exertions of the chiefs to cause the restoration of stolen property
prove ineffectual, and the agent is satisfied from the testimony
that it was actually stolen by any person belonging to the Great
Osage tribe, he shall so report to the superintendent, with a copy
of the testimony; which shall for that purpose always be reduced to
writing; and the superintendent shall, if satisfied from the
testimony, deduct from the annuity of the tribe a sum equal to the
value of the property stolen.
ART.
XV. The Confederate States hereby guarantee full and fair
payment to the owner of the actual and fair value of all horses and
other property stolen from any person or persons belonging to the
Great Osage tribe, by any citizen of the Confederate States, or by
any Indian of any other nation or tribe under their protection, in
case the same cannot be recovered, and upon sufficient proof being
made before the superintendent or any agent of the Confederate State
for any of such nations or tribes that such property was actually
stolen by a citizen or citizens of the Confederate States, or by an
Indian or Indians of tribes under their protection.
ART.
XVI. An agent for the Great and Little Osage tribes, the
Quapaws, Senecas, and Seneca and Shawnees shall be appointed by the
President, and an interpreter for the Great and Little tribes of the
Osages, for their protection and that their complaints may be heard
by and their wants made known to the President. The agenty
shall reside continually in the country of one or the other of said
tribes or bands, and the interpreter shall reside among either the
Great or the Little Osages; and neither of them shall ever be absent
from their posts, except by the permission of the superintendent.
ART.
XVII. None of the braves of the Great Osage tribe shall go
upon the war path, against any enemy, whatever, except with the
consent of the agent, or unless it be to pursue hostile bands of
white men or Indians entering their country and committing murder,
robbery or other outrage when immediate pursuit is necessary; nor
shall hold any talks or councils with any white men or Indians
without his knowledge or consent. And they especially agree to
attend no councils or talks in the country of any people, or with
the officers or agents of any people, with whom the Confederate
States are at war; and in case they do so, all the benefits secured
to them by this treaty shall immediately and forever cease.
ART.
XVIII. The Confederate States shall not permit any improper
person to reside or be in the Great or Little Osage country, but
only such persons as are employed by them, their officers or agents,
and traders licensed by them, who shall sell to the Osages and buy
from them, at fair prices; under such regulations as the President
shall make from time to time.
ART.
XIX. To steal a horse or any other article of property from a
white man or an Indian not at war with the Confederate States shall
always be regarded as disgraceful, an the chiefs of the Osages will
dicountenance and prevent it by every means in their power.
For if they should not there never could be any permanent peace.
ART.
XX. The Confederate States wish the Osages to settle upon and
cultivate their land, build houses, dig wells, and by industry
become enabled to support themselves; and in order to encourage and
assist them, and because of the chattels and articles promised to
the Great Osages and Little Osages, by the treaty of the eleventh
day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, a
considerable portion never was furnished them, to-wit: 1,200
hogs, 700 plows, 700 sets of horse gear, 800 axes and 800 hoes, the
Confederate States agree to give them 1,200 breeding hogs, 50 yoke
of oxen with ox wagons, horse gear, plows, yokes, axes, spades and
hoes, and other useful implements, to the value of $15,000, at the
first cost in the place in the Confederate States where the same
shall be purchased. Of which stock 900 hogs, 40 yoke of oxen,
and such implements as aforesaid to the value of $11,000 shall be
given to the Great Osages, and the residue to the Little Osages if
any unite in this treaty. But such stock and implements shall
only be issued from time to time and to such persons as shall be
reported by the agent to the superintendent to be engaged or ready
to engage in farming, and who will take care of and profitably use
the same, and be benefited by them, and not sell, waste, or destroy
the same, upon which reports, and so only the superintendent shall
cause the issue to such persons only of so much of said stock and so
many of said implements as he would be entitled to upon a
distribution of all per capita; and it shall be the duty of the
chief and of the agent to see that what is so issued is not
destroyed or wasted; and if waste or destruction can in no otherwise
be prevented, to reclaim the same and issue them elsewhere.
ART.
XXI. The Confederate States also agree to build and put in
running order a grist and saw mill, at some suitable point in the
Osage country, and to employ a miller for each mill for the term of
nine years from the date of this treaty and an assistant to each for
the same time, the latter to be selected from the Osage Nation, and
each of them to receive $225 per annum as his compensation; and each
miller shall be furnished with a dwelling place; this article being
agreed to by the Confederate States because the mill supplied by the
United States, under the treaty of the year one thousand eight
hundred and thrity-nine, was burned down after being in operation
only six years.
ART.
XXII. The Confederate States also agree that the agent for the
Osages shall be authorized to employ, for and during the term of ten
years from the signing of this treaty, ten agricultural and other
laborers, to assist the Great and Little Osages in opening and
preparing for cultivation their fields, and building their houses,
who shall be, at all times, under the control and direction of the
agent.
ART.
XXIII. For the same purpose the Confederate States will also
provide, furnish and support for a during the term of twenty years
from the date of this treaty, for the Great Osages upon and after
the ratification of this treaty, and for the Little Osages when they
shall become parties to this treaty, to each a blacksmith and an
assistant, who shall be one of their own people, and for each,
annually a sufficient supply of coal, with 500 pounds of iron and 50
pounds of steel to the blacksmith for the Great Osages, and 250
pounds of iron and 25 pounds of steel to the blacksmith for the
Little Osages, that their farming utensils, tools and arms may be
reasonably repaired; and also one wagon-maker for each; and will
furnish each smith and wagon-maker with the necessary tools and with
a shop, and the wagon-maker with the necessary wood and other
materials from time to time.
ART.
XXV. The Confederate States also agrees to furnish each
warrior of the said Great Osage nation, who has not a gun, with a
good rifle and a supply of powder and lead and percussion caps or
flints as soon as it may be found practicable. The arms and
ammunition are never to be given away, sold or exchanged and the
chiefs will punish anyone who so disposes of either; and the
Confederate States will severely punish any trader or other white
man who may purchase either from them.
ART.
XXVI. No state or territory shall ever pass laws for the
government of the Osage people; and except so far as the laws of the
Confederate States are in force in their country; they shall be left
free to govern themselves, and to punish offenses committed by one
of themselves against the person or property of another. Provided,
That if one of them kills another without good cause or
justification, he shall suffer death, but only by the sentence of
the chiefs, and after a fair trial, all private revenge being
strictly forbidden.
ART.
XXVII. Every white man who marries a woman of the Osages, and
resides in the Osage country, shall be deemed and taken, even after
the death of his wife, to be an Osage and a member of the tribe in
which he resides, so far as to be subject to the laws of the tribe
in respect to all offenses committed in its country against the
person or property of another member of the tribe, and as not to be
considered a white man committing such offenses against the person
or property of an Indian, within the meaning of the Acts of Congress
of the Confederate States. All Negroes and mulattoes, bond or
free, committing any such offense in said country shall, in like
manner, be subject to the laws of the tribe.
ART.
XXVIII. The Confederate States shall have the right to
establish, open and maintain such military and other roads through
any part of the Osage country as the President may deem necessary,
without making any compensation for the right of way, or for the
land, timber, or stone used in construction the same; but if any
other property of the tribe, or any other property or improvements
of an individual, be used or injured therein, just and adequate
compensation shall be made.
ART.
XXIX. The Confederate States may grant the right of way for
any railroad through any part of the said country but the company to
which any such right of way may be granted shall pay the tribe
therefore such sum as shall, in the opinion of the President, be its
fair value; and shall also pay to individuals all damages done by
the building of said road to their improvements or other property to
such amount in each case as commissioners appointed by the President
shall determine.
ART.
XXX. The agents of the Confederate States for the Osages and
other bands shall prevent all intrusions by hunters and others upon
the lands of the Osages, and permit no white men or other Indians to
settle thereon, and shall remove all such persons, calling, if
necessary, upon the military power for aid, and the commanders of
military posts in that country shall be required to afford them such
aid upon his requisition.
ART.
XXXI. If any trader or other person should purchase from any
Osage any of the cattle or other chattels or articles given him by
the Confederate States, he shall be severely punished.
ART.
XXXII. The Great and Little Osages may allow persons of any
other tribe of Indians to settle among them, and may receive from
them, for their own benefit, compensation for such lands as they may
sell or assign to such persons.
ART.
XXXIII. No citizen or inhabitant of the Confederate States, or
member of any friendly nation or tribe of Indians shall pasture
stock on the lands of the Osages; but all such persons shall have
full liberty, at all times, and whether for business or pleasure,
peaceably to travel in their country, on the roads or elsewhere, to
drive their stock through the same, and to halt such reasonable time
on the way as may be necessary to recruit the stock, such delay
being in good faith for that purpose and for no other.
ART.
XXXIV. Any person duly charged with a criminal offense against
the laws of the Confederate States, or of any state or territory, or
of any Indian nation or tribe under the protection of the
Confederate States, escaping into the Osage country, shall be
promptly taken up and delivered by the chiefs of the Osages on the
demand of the proper authority of the Confederate States, or of the
state or territory, nation or tribe within whose jurisdiction the
offense shall be alleged to have been committed.
ART.
XXXV. In addition to the laws of the Confederate States
expressly applying to the Indian country, so much of their laws as
provides for the punishment of crimes amounting to felony at common
law or statutes against these laws, authority, or treaties, and over
which the courts of the Confederate States have jurisdiction,
including the counterfeiting of the coin of the United States or of
the Confederate States, or the uttering of such counterfeit coin or
securities; and so much of the said law as provides for punishing
violations of the neutrality laws, and resistance to the process of
the Confederate States and all Acts of the Provisional Congress
providing for the common welfare, as far as the same are not locally
inapplicable and the laws providing for the capture and delivery of
fugitive slaves shall be in force in the Osage country; and the
district court for the Chalaki district when established, shall have
exclusive jurisdiction to try, condemn, and punish offenders against
those laws, to adjudge and pronounce sentence, and cause execution
thereof to be done.
ART.
XXXVI. Whenever any person who is a member of the Great or
Little Osage tribe shall be indicted for any offense in any court of
the Confederate States, or in a state court, he shall be entitled as
of common right to subpoena and, if necessary, to compulsory process
for all such witnesses in his behalf that his counsel may think
material for his defense; and the costs of process for such
witnesses, and of the service thereof, and fees and mileage of such
witnesses shall be paid by the Confederate States, and whenever the
accused is not able to employ counsel the courts shall assign
him one experienced counsel for his defense, who shall be paid by
the Confederate States a reasonable compensation for his services,
to be fixed by the court and paid upon the certificate of the judge.
ART.
XXXVII. It is hereby declared and agreed that the institution
of slavery in the said Great and Little Osage tribe is legal, and
has existed since time immemorial; that slaves are personal
property; that the title to slaves and other property having its
origin in the said tribes is to be determined by the laws and
customs thereof; and that the slaves and personal property of every
person domiciled in the country of the said tribes shall pass and be
distributed at his or her death in accordance with the laws, usages,
and customs of the said tribes, which may be proved by oral
evidence, and shall everywhere be held valid and binding within the
scope of their operations. And if any slaves escape from any
of the said tribes, the laws of the Confederate States for the
capture and delivery of fugitive slaves shall apply to such cases,
whether they escape into a state or territory or into any Indian
nation or tribe under the protection of the Confederate States; the
obligation upon such state, territory, nation or tribe to deliver up
the same being in every case as complete as if they had escaped from
a state, and the mode of procedure the same.
ART.
XXXVIII. In consideration of the loyalty of the Great Osage
tribe and of their readiness to place themselves under the
protection of the Confederate States, and of theri poverty, and of
the great losses in horses and other property sustained by them at
the hands of lawless persons for many years, the Confederate States
do hereby agree to expend for the benefit of the Great and Little
Osage tribes, for the full term of twenty years from the date of
this treaty, the sum of $15,000 annually, of which sum $5,000 per
annum shall be added to the interest on the school fund of the
nation, hereinafter provided for, and $10,000 shall be divided
fairly in each year, after the Little Osage tribe shall have united
in this convention, between the two tribes in proportion to the
number of souls in each; and the sum of $10,000 shall, in each year,
be applied to the superintendent to the purchase of such articles of
clothing, household goods, utensils, blankets and other articles as
shall tend to the comfort of the Osages and encourage them in their
endeavors to improve, and which articles the agent shall distribute
among them in the same manner and nearly as possible as money would
be distributed per capita: Provided, That in the
distribution, any person may be excluded by him if reported by the
chiefs to be worthless, idle, dissolute, or a bad and mischievous
person, and that he may do the same upon his own knowledge taking
care, as far as may be, that only the good and worthy shall be the
recipients of the bounty of the Government of the Confederate
States.
ART.
XXXIX. It is hereby agreed and ascertained that by the sixth
articles of the treaty with the Great and Little Osages, of the
second day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five, it was agreed that from the lands ceded and
relinquished by the Osages by the treaty, a reservation should be
made of fifty-four tracts of land a mile square each, to be laid off
under the direction of the President of the United States and sold
for the purpose of raising a fund to be applied to the support of
schools for the education of the Osage children, in such manner as
the President might deem advisable for the attainment of that end;
that fifty-four sections of land were accordingly selected and
afterward sold, and the proceeds of the same amounted to $31.724.02,
which sum remains invested as follows, that is to say:
In
6 per cent stock of the state of Missouri, $7,000.
In
United States 6 percent loan of 1842, $24,679.56.
And
in United States 6 percent loan of 1847, $44.46.
And
as it will be useless for the Osages hereafter to expect anything
from the justice of the United States, and the Confederate States do
not desire that they should hereafter look to that quarter for any
moneys, it is therefore further agreed that the Confederate States
will hereafter pay annually, on the first day of January in each
year, perpetually, commencing with the year one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two, for the benefit of the Great and Little
Osages tribes, the sum of $1,903.44, being the annual interest on
said sums of money so as aforesaid in U. S. stocks and stock of the
state of Missouri, at the rate of 6 per cent per annum, and will
look to the state of Missouri for the payment of the principal and
interest of said sum of $7,000, as invested in stocks of that state,
to which sum shall be annually added, on the same day, commencing
with the same year, the sum of $5,000, part of the annuity provided
for in the thirty-ninth article of this treaty, and the whole shall
be applied by the agent to the support and maintenance of the Osage
manual labor school, now in operation at the mission on the Neosho
river, as the said interest has heretofore been applied.
ART.
XL. A tract of land of the quantity of two sections, or two tracts
of one section each, to be selected by the agent of the Confederate
States for the Osages and other tribes, and in which or one of which
the present site of the mission and its buildings is to be included,
is hereby forever dedicated to the use of the Osage manual labor
school, to be under the exclusive control of those who have
charge of that institution, and for its exclusive use; and not to be
sold or disposed of, or applied to any other use or purpose
whatsoever.
ART.
XLI. All just claims and demands against the United States, of
the Great Osage tribe, or of any individual or individuals thereof,
not herein specified arising or due under former treaties with the
United States, are hereby assumed, and shall, after the restoration
of peace, be investigated by the President, and, so far as they are
found to be just, shall be paid in full by the Confederate States;
and all provisions of the several treaties with the United States,
made by the Osages, under which any rights or privileges were
secured to the Great Osage tribe, or to any individual or
individuals of the same, and the place whereof is not supplied by
any provision of this treaty, and the same not being obsolete or no
longer necessary, and so far as they are not annulled, repealed,
changed, or modified by subsequent treaties or statutes, or are not
so by this treaty, are hereby continued in force as if the same had
been made with the Confederate States.
ART.
XLII. A general amnesty of all past offenses against the laws
of the United States or of the Confederate States, committed before
the signing of this treaty, by any member of the Great Osage tribe,
as such membership is defined by this treaty, is hereby declared;
and all such persons, if any, charged with any such offense shall
receive from the President full and free pardon, and if imprisoned
or held to bail, before or after conviction, shall be discharged.
ART.
XLIII. The Confederate States of America hereby tender to the
Little Osage tribe the same protection and guaranties as are hereby
extended, and given to the Great Osage tribe, and the other benefits
offered them specifically by this treaty; and if the said Little
Osage tribe shall give no aid to the enemies of the Confederate
States, and shall within one year from the day of the signing of
this treaty, enter into a convention whereby all shall unite in this
treaty and accept and agree to all the terms and conditions of the
same, then it shall, to all intents and purposes, be regarded as
having been made with them originally, and they be deemed and taken
to be parties thereto, as if they were now to sign the same.
ART.
XLIV. This convention shall be obligatory on the Great Osage
tribe of Indians from the day of its date, and on the Confederate
States from and after its ratification by the Senate or Provisional
Congress.
In
perpetual testimony whereof the said Albert Pike, as commissioner
with plenary powers, on the part of the Confederate States, doth now
hereunto set his hand and affix the seal of his arms; and the
undersigned chiefs and headmen of the Great Osage tribe of Indians,
do hereunto set their hands and affix their seals.
This
done in duplicate at the place and upon the day and month and year
first aforesaid.
[SEAL}
ALBERT
PIKE,
Commissioner of the Confederate States to the Indian Nations West of
Arkansas.
Ka-hi-ke-tung-ka,
chief of Clermont’s band, Great Osages.
Pa-hiu-ska,
chief of White Hair’s band.
Chi-sho-hung-ka,
chief of Big Hill band.
Shon-tas-sap-pe,
or
Black Dog, chief of Black Dog’s band.
Sha-pe-shing-ka,
or Beaver, second chief of White Hair’s band.
Wash-ka-che,
second chief of Clermont’s band.
Ta-wan-che-he,
or Tall Chief, second chief of Big Hill band.
Wa-ho
Pek-eh,
second chief of Black Dog’s band.
Wa-ta-en-ka,
or Dry Feather, councilor of Clermont’s band.
Kan-se-ka-hri,
coucilor of Big Hill band.
Ka-hi-ke
Wa-ta-en-ka.
Ka-hi-ke-
Shing-ka.
Chi-sho-wa-ta-eng-ka.
E-e-shi-ka-hri.
Sho-meh-kas-si.
Ni-ih-ka-ki-pa-na.
Sa-peh-ku-yeh.
Wah-kan-ta-chi-leh.
Wa-sha-shi
Wa sha-on-chi.
O-shang-ke-tung-ka.
Wa-a-han-na.
Ha-ka-she.
Wa-no-pa-she.
Shing-ka-ka-hu-ke.
Wa-she-wa-he.
Na-hin-ta-pi.
Ah-kih-ta-tung-ka.
Ni-ka-ka-hri.
Sha-a-ke-to-pa.
To-ti-na-he.
O-lo-ing-ka-shi.
Ka-wa-si.
Wa-hu-nom-pi.
Wa-ak-an-chi-le.
O-ki-pa-hra.
Tse-nom-pa-shi.
Aki-ko-sha.
Wa-che-no-shi.
Wa-to-ki-ka.
I-ka-sha-pe.
A-no-hra-pe
Min-che-eh-na.
Ma-hing-ka-he.
Tan-wa-ka-hi-ki.
Min-ches-ka.
To-ta-na-she.
Ka-wa-ka-hi-ki.
Mu-ka-ke-shing-ka.
Gesso
Choteau.
Augustus
Captain.
Louis
P. Chouteau.
Che-ese-tung-ka.
Wa-ta-sho-we.
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