CESSIONS OF 1855-1856 



815 



LA.]SriD CESSIODSrS-Contintied. 



Hialorical data nnd remarks 



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 Kocky 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, l)ut with the assent of the Indians, liy Executive 

 order of .July 5, 1873, a reserve was set apart for the joint occupancy of the 

 Gros Ventres, Piegan, Bloods, Blackfeet, and Kiver Crows. This new reserve 

 was in part composed of territory assigned the Blackfeet by treaty of 18.55. 

 It did not, however, comprise all of that territory, for, by the etiect of the 

 Executive order of July 5, 1873, a portion of it was relimiuished to the U. S. 

 The tract thus nlinquished is colored green. 



Modified and partly relinquished by Executive order of Dec. 21, 1865. 

 portion relinquished by act of Congress, Mar. 3, 1875. 



This was selected by Superintendent Henley as one of the two additional 

 reserves authorized by act ot Congress Mar. 3, 1855. It was surveyed by 

 Deputy Surveyor Lewis in 1.^57. Dec. 31,1861. the Indian agent reported 

 the complete destruction of both the reservation and the public property 

 thereon by a freshet, which left the soil covered to the depth of several feet 

 with sand. The In>lians were at once removed to Smith River reservation. 

 Though not formally relin(|uishfd, the Klamath was not thereafter occupied 

 as an Indian reservation until 1877, when tne Commissioner of Indian AHairs 

 asked that the War Department remove white trespassers. Recent action 

 has been taken looking ti> the allotment of laud in severalty to those Indians 

 residing on the reserve with a view to restoring the surplus laud to the pub- 

 lic domain. 



This tract was informally established in 1856 as an Indian reservation. In 

 1857-58 Mr Thomas 1'. Madden, an employee of the Indian service, entered and 

 obtained title to the laud with state-school warrants. It was thereafter 

 known as the JIadden farm, containing 1,280 acres, and the U. S. paid him 

 rental therefor until it was abandoned in 1876, and the Indians removed to 

 the new Tule River reservation, established by Executive orders of Jan. 9 

 and Oct. 3, 1873. In addition to the Madden farm the U. S. occupied and 

 fenced 160 acres adjoining, but that was also entered by an Indian employee 

 as a homestead in 1861. 



Dissensions continuing among the tribe after the treaty of 1839, the act of Con- 

 gress of March 3. 1813, was passed, providing for the subdivision and allot- 

 ment in severalty of their remaining lands. .\ part of the tribe refused to 

 be governed by this act and Congress repealed it Aug 6, 1846. It w.as found 

 impraiticable to carry this last act into effect, and to settle all dirtioulties 

 the treaty of Kov. 21, 1818, was concluded, by which the Indians agreed to 



Designation of cession on map 



See 578, 579, 

 479. 



Oregon 1. 



Oregon. 



