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TREATY WITH THE WEAS AND KICKAPOOS. 1816. 145 agreement, heretofore concluded between the United States and the said tribe or nation, as far as their interest in the same extends. Aar. 3. The undersigned chiefs and warriors as aforesaid, for them- Pmieciien gf selves and those they represent, do hereby acknowledge themselves to U- S- ¤¤k¤¤W- be under the protection of the United States, and of no other nation, l°dg°d' power, or sovereign, whatsoever. Ama 4. The aforesaid chiefs and warriors, for themselves and those Indians to ,9, they represent, do further promise to remain distinct and separate from main distinct the rest of their tribe or nation, giving them no aid or assistance what- glgcresl °f ever, until peace shall also be concluded between the United States and ' the said tribe or nation. Arvr. 5. The contracting parties do hereby agree, promise, and oblige Prisoners to themselves, reciprocally, to deliver up all prisoners now in their hands be delivered up. (by what means soever the same may have come into their possession) to the officer commanding at Prairie du Chien, to be by him restored to the respective parties hereto, as soon as it may be practicable. In witness whereof, the commissioners aforesaid, and the undersigned chiefs and warriors as aforesaid, have hereunto subscribed their names, and affixed their seals, this third day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen and of the independence of the United States the fortieth. WM. CLARK, NINIAN EDWARDS, AUG. CHOUTEAU. Choukeka, or Dekare, the spoon, Shougkapar, the Dog, Onunaka, or Karamanu, Nekousaka, the Main Channel, Achahouska, the White Sky, Wapanonekee, the Bear, Chenapinka, the Good House, Opwarchickwaka, the Rain, Makahka, the Earth, Chepurganika, the Little Buffalo Head. Wechoka, the Green Feather, Done at St. Louis, in the presence of R. Wash, secretary to the commission. R. Paul, C. T. of the C. Wm. O. Allen, captain U. S. Corps of Artillery. N. Boilvin, agent. Thomas Forsyth, I. agent. Maurice Blondeaux, agent. Henry Delorier, Pierre Lapointe, Baptiste Pereault, Samuel Solomon, and Jacques Mette, Interpreters. To the Indian names are subjoined a mark and seal. ARTICLES OF A TREATY Made and entered into at Fort Harrison, in the Indiana Terri- hm, 4, 1816 tory between Benjamin Parke, specially authorized thereto by mg the president of the United States, zyf the one part, and the Dec, 30, [816,, tribes of Indians called the Weas and Kicltapoos, by their chieyfs and head men, of the other part. ART. 1. The Weas and Kickapoos again acknowledge themselves in 1?eace and peace and friendship with the United States. f""“dsl“p· Aer. 2. The said tribes acknowledge the validity ot, and declare Tnsnty 0; their determination to adhere to, the treaty of Greenville, made in the Greenville con- · · firmed. year seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and all subsequent treaties which they have respectively made with the United States. 19 N