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TREATY WITH THE WILLAMETTE INDIANS; JAN. 22, 1855. 1143 FRANKLIN PIERCE, Jan. 22, 1855. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, W ·ro ALL Arm smeuxuuz ro wuom rnmsn rnmsmrrs seam. coun, cnunrmo: WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at Dayton, Oregon Terri- q-m0_ tory, in the month of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, by Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian affairs, on the part of the United States, and the chiefs of the confederated bands of Indians residing in the Willamette Valley, which treaty is in the words following, to wit:-- Articles of agreement and convention made and concluded at Dayton, Oregon Territory, by Joel Palmer, superintendent of Indian alfairs, on the part of the United States, and the following namedchiefs of the confederated bands of Indians residing in the Willamette Valley, they being duly authorized thereto by their respective bands, to wit: Ki-a—kuts, Le Medicin, and Yatskaw, or Dave, chiefs of the Tualatin band of Calapooias; Shap-h, or William, Shel-ke-ah, or David, and Cha-ah, or Jesse, chiefs of the Yam Hill band; Dabo, or'J im, Seo-la-quit, or John, and Yah-kow, or Kompetine, chiefs of the Che-lnk-i-ma-uke band; Ah-mo, or George, Himpher, or Hubbard, and Oh-no, or Tim, chiefs of the Chep-en-a—pho or Marysville band; Ma.-mah—mo, or Charley Peter, Cha—che-clue, or ’I`om, and Quineilat, or Ben, chiefs of the Chem-a-pho, or Maddy band; Luck—a-ma-too, or Antoine, and Hoo-til, or Charley, chiefs of the Chelam-e-la, or Long Tom band, all of the Calapooias; Qui-a-qua-ty, Yalkus, and Kow-ka-ma, or Long Hair, chiefs of the Mo-lal-la band of Molal-las; Kiles, or Jim, and Kow-ah-tough, or John, chiefs of the Calapooia band of Oalapooias; Anta-quil-al-la, or John, and Mequah, of the Winnefelly and Mohawk bands; Yack-a—tee, or Sam, To-phor, or Jim Brown, and Ha.l·la—be, or Doctor, of the Tekopa band; Pulk-tah, of the Chafan band of the Calapooia tribe; Tum—waltl1 and O-ban-a-hah, chiefs of the Wah-lal-la band of Tum-waters; Watch—a-no, Te—ap-i-nick and Wal-lah-pi-coto,_ chiefs of the Clack-a-mas tribe ; Lallak and Cuck-a- man-na, or David, of the Clow-we—wal-la or Willamette Tum-water band ; Tow-ye·col-la, or Louis; Yclk-ma, or Jo, La-ham, or Tom, Joseph Sanegertta, Pullican, Te-na, or Kiles, Pnl-kup-li-ma, or John, Sallat, or Silas, Hoip-ke-nek, or Jack, Yepta and Sat-invose, or James, chiefs and headmen of the Santiam bands of Calapooias. ARTICLE Fms·r. The above-named confedcrated bands of Indians'UG€:si<é¤2&*¤ M16 cede to the United States all their right, title, and claim to all and every m *°°' part of the country included in the following boundaries, to wit: —- Commencing in the middle of the main channel of the Columbia River, opposite the mouth of the first creek emptying into said river from the south below Oak point, thence south to the first standard parallel north of the base line in the government survey, thence west to the summit of the coast range of mountains, thence southerly along the summit of said range to the Calapooia Mountains, thence easterly along the summit of said mountains to the summit of the Cascade Mountains, thence along said summit northerly, to the middle of the Columbia River, at the Cascade Falls, and thence down the middle of said rivcr to the place of beginning.