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TREATY WITH THE CHIPPEWA INDIANS. Ocronna 2, 1863. 667 Treaty between the United States and the Red Lake and Pembina Bands mf Ohippewa Indians ; concluded in Mnnesota, October 2, 1863; ratified by the Senate with Amendments, March 1, 1864; amendments assented t0, April 12, 1864; proclaimed by the President of the United States, May 5, 1864. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PRO CLAMATION. mo au. Ann srnevruz ro waom THESE rnnsnnrs snxm. comm, cnnermcz Ombe, 2, 1863. WHEREAS a treaty was made and concluded at the Old Crossing of preamble, Red Lake River, in the State of Minnesota, on the second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, by and between Alexander Ramsey and Ashley C. Morrill, Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and the hereinafter named Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors of the Red Lake and Pembina Bands of Chippewa Indians, on the part of said Bands, and duly authorized thereto by them, which treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit:- Anricrns or A TREATY made and concluded at the Old Crossing of Red Contracting Lake River, in the State of Minnesota, on the second day of October, P‘“°‘“· in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three, between the United States of America, by their Commissioners, Alexander Ramsey and Ashley C. Morrill, agent for the Chippewa Indians, and the Red Lake and Pembina Bands of Chippewas, by their Chiefs, Headmen, and Warriors. ARTICLE I. The peace and friendship now existing between the P€'P°*“’;}_, d United States and the Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewa In- $$8 and ml ` dians shall be perpetual. Anrxcrn II. The said Red Lake and Pembina bands of Chippewa Lands ceded w Indians do hereby cede, sell, and convey to the United States all their giztgnlmd right, title, and interest in and to all the lands now owned and claimed ° by them in the State of Minnesota and in the Territory of Dakota within the following described boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the point where _ the international boundary between the United States and the British B°“"d"“°“· possessions intersects the shore of the Lake of the Woods; thence in a direct line south-westwardly to the head of Thief River ; thence down the main channel of said Thief River to its mouth on the Red Lake River; thence in a south-easterly direction, in a direct line rewards the head of Wild Rice River, to the point where such line would intersect the northwestern boundary of a tract ceded to the United States by a treaty concluded at Washington on the twenty-second day of February, in the year Vo1.x. p. 1165. eighteen hundred and fifty-five, with the Mississippi, Pillager, and Lake Winnebigoshish bands of Chippewa Indians ; thence along the said boundary line of the said cession to the mouth of Wild Rice River; thence up the main channel of the Red River to the mouth of the Shay- enne; thence up the main channel of the Shayenne River to Poplar Grove; thence in a direct line to the Place of Stumps, otherwise called Lake Chicot; thence in a direct line to the head of the main branch of Salt River; thence in a direct line due north to the point where such line would intersect the international boundary aforesaid; thence eastwardly along said boundary to the place of beginning.