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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: October 17, 1855
Where or how concluded: On upper Missouri, near Judith river, Nebraska.
Reference: Statutes at Large, Volume XI, page 657.
Tribe: Blackfoot and Flathead nations and Nez Perce tribe.
Description of cession or reservation: Blackfoot nation agrees that certain territory assigned them by treaty of Fort Laramie shall be a common hunting ground.
Certain territory to belong exclusively to the Blackfoot
Assiniboines to have the right to hunt on certain lands.
Historical data and remarks: This territory for the Blackfeet is described in the treaty as bounded by a line running eastwardly from Hell Gate, or Medicine Rock Passes, to the nearest source of the Muscle Shell river; thence down the river to the Missouri; down the Missouri to the mouth of Milk river; thence N. to forty-ninth parallel; W. to the main range of the Rocky mountains, and southerly along that range to place of beginning. A treaty was afterward concluded, Sept. 1, 1868, by which the Blackfeet relinquished a portion of this territory. This treaty was never ratified, but with the assent of the Indians, by Executive order of July 5, 1873, a reserve was set apart for the joint occupancy of the Gros Ventres, Piegan, Bloods, Blackfeet, and River Crows. This new reserve was in part composed of territory assigned the Blackfeet by treaty of 1855. It did not, however, comprise all of that territory, for, by the effect of the Executive order of July 5, 1873, a portion of it was relinquished to the U. S. The tract thus relinquished is colored green.
View maps: Montana 1 ~ Wyoming 1
Designation of cession(s) on map: 398~399~See 565, 574
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