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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784 to 1894
Date: February 18, 1861
Where or how concluded: Fort Wise, Kansas territory.
Reference: Statutes at Large, Volume XII, page 1163.
Tribe: Arapaho and Cheyenne of Upper Arkansas.
Description of cession or reservation: Cede all land claimed by them except one reserved tract.
Reserve tract for future home, described as follows: Beginning at the mouth of the Sandy fork of the Arkansas river and extending westwardly along the said river to the mouth of Purgatory river; thence along up the W. bank of the Purgatory river to the northern boundary of the Territory of New Mexico; thence W. along said boundary to a point where a line drawn due S. from a point on the Arkansas river 5 miles E. of the mouth of the Huerfano river would intersect said northern boundary of New Mexico; thence due N. from that point on said boundary to the Sandy fork to the place of beginning.
Historical data and remarks: See explanatary note opposite unratified treaty of Sept. 17, 1851, at Fort Laramie
Ceded by treaty of Oct. 14, 1865
View maps: Nebraska ~ Kansas 1 ~ Colorado 1 ~ Wyoming 1
Designation of cession(s) on map: 426~See 477
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