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Treaty between the United States of America and the Sissiton and Warpeton Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians; Ooncluded February 19, 1867; Ratification advised, with Amendments, April 15, 1867 ; Amendments accepted April 22, 1867 ; Proclaimed May 2, 1867. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, T0 ru, Aim srncnnn ro wnom runsn rmasmsccs snam. conn, cxnnrmo: Feb, 19, 1867; Whereas a Treaty was made and concluded at the city of Washington, p,.,,,,mb1,,_ in the District of Columbia, on the nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, by and between Lewis V. Bogy and William H. Watson, Commissioners, on the part of the United States, and Gabriel Renville, Wandiupiduta,Tacandx1- pahotanka, and other Chiefs and Headmen of the Sissitou and Warpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, on the part of said Indians, and duly authorized thereto by them, which Treaty is in the words and figures following, to wit: Whereas it is understood that a portion of the Sissiton and Warpeton bands of Santee. Sioux Indians, numbering from twelve hundred to fifteen hundred persons, not only preserved their obligations to the government of the United States, during and since the outbreak of the Medewakantons and other bands of Sioux in 1862, but freely perilled their lives during that outbreak to rescue the residents on the Sioux reservation, and to obtain possession of white women and children made captives by the hostile bands; and that another portion of said Sissiton and Warpeton bands, numbering from one thousand to twelve hundred persons, who did not participate in the massacre of the whites in 1862, fearing the indiscriminate vengeance of the whites, fled to the great prairies of the northwest, where they still remain ; and Whereas Congress, in confiscating the Sioux annuities and reservations, made no provision for the support of these, the friendly portion of the Sissiton and Warpeton bands, and it is believed [that] they have been suffered to remain homeless wanderers, frequently subject to intense suffering from want of subsistence and clothing to protect them from the rigors of a high northern latitude, although at all times prompt in rendering service when called upon to repel hostile raids and to punish depredations committed by hostile Indians upon the persons and property of the whites; and Whereas the several subdivisions of the friendly Sissitons and Warpeton bands ask, through their representatives, that their adherence to their former obligations of friendship to the government and people of the United States be recognized, and that provision be made to enable them to return to an agricultural life and be relieved from a dependence upon the chase for a precarious subsistence: therefore, A treaty has been made and entered into, at `Washington city, District Contracting of Columbia, this nineteenth day of February, A. D. 1867, by and be- P“”'“· tween Lewis V. Bogy, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and William H. Watson, commissioners, on the part of the United States, and the undersigned chiefs and headmen of the Sissiton and Warpeton bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians, as follows, to wit: