ARTICLES OF A CONVENTION Sept. 5, 1820. Made and concluded, between Benjamin Parke, a Commissioner ‘P" “"- " on the part of the United States, for that purpose, of the one Jariiidf art, and the Chie s, Warriors, and Head hlen, of the Tribe cf gikp th 'Z` th therp t tc a 00s 0 e erm: ton, 0 e 0 ar . Annuity to be ART. 1. It is agreed, that the annuity secured to the said Tribe, by l1¤f¤¤f¢¢=f Enid the Treaty of the thirtieth of August, eighteen hundred and nineteen, “°,§,‘;;’k;“ shall hereafter be paid to the said Tribe at Kaskaskias, in the state of "I Illinois. $2000 paid to ART. 2. As the said Tribe are now about leaving their settlements
- “*bl°‘_*?“‘,}‘h on the Wabash, and have desired some assistance to enable them to
{::1 :,;€,,;,;.“0,9 remove, the said Benjamin Parke, on behalf of the United States, has 1821. paid and advanced to the said Tribe, two thousand dollars, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged; which said sum of two thousand dollars, is to be considered as an equivalent, in full, for the annuity due the said Tribe, by virtue of the aforesaid Treaty, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one. In testimony whereof, the said Benjamin Parke, Commissioner as aforesaid, and the Chiefs, Warriors, and Head Men, of the said Tribe, have hereunto set their hands, at Vincennes, the fifth day of September, eighteen hundred and twenty. B. PARKE. \Wag·ohaw, Pace. Rinqua, Teeumsena, Katewab, Pelecheah, Nasa Reah. Kechemaqua, In presence of William Prince, Indian Agent. Samuel Jacobs. R. S. Reynolds. freorge R. C. Sullivan, Vincennes Postmaster. Tousssint Dubois. Michel Brouillet, nte te . rpm r To the Indian names are subjoined marks. A TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, LIMITS, AND ACCOMMODATION, Oct. 18, 1820. Between the United States of America and the Choctaw nation `“*‘”P,Oc,,ma,,0n, of Ind1.ans, begun and concluded at the Treaty Ground, in said Jan. s, 1821. nation, near Doak’s Stand, on the Natchez Road. rnnamnnu. Object, 0; me Wummas it is an important object with the President of the United treaty. States, to promote the civilization of the Choctaw Indians, by the estahlrshment of schools amongst them; and to perpetuate them as a nation, by exchanging, for a small part of their land here, a country beyond the Mississippi River, where all, who live by hunting and will not work, may be collected and settled together.—And whereas it is desirable to G10)
