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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



SCHEDULE OF IISTDIA-IST 



1880. 



June 8 



Where or hoiv 

 concluded 



Executive or- 

 der. 



Agreement . 



June 15 Act of Con- 

 gress. 



July 13 Executive or- 

 der. 



Havasapai . . 



Arikara, Gros 

 Ventre, and 

 Mandan. 



Vtacrlplion of cession or reservation 



President estalilislics a reserve to include their improvements, 

 described as follows: Beginniujj; at a point in the inidiUe of 

 Cataract creek, 2 miles below the lowest fall, S. of the settle- 

 ment of the Snppai Indians; thence due E.li.V miles; thence 

 in a northerly direction 12 miles to a point 2i miles due E. 

 of the middle of said creek; thence due W. 5 miles; theme 

 in a southerly direction 12 miles to a point 2i miles due W. 

 to the middle of said creek; thence due E. 2+ miles to the 

 place of beginning. 



The Crows execute another agreement, ceding .a portion of 

 their reserve under treaty of May 7, 1808, in lieu of the one 

 concluded May 14, 1880. By this agreenieut, which was cou- 

 iirmed by act of Congre.ss Apr. 11, 1882, the Crow Indians of 

 Montana ceded to the U. S. that part of their reservatiou con- 

 tained in the following bounds: beginning in theuiid-chanuel 

 of the Yellowstone river at a point opixisite the mouth of 

 Boulder creek ; thenceupthemid-chaunelof said river to the 

 point where it crosses the southern boundary of Montana Tei- 

 ritory, being the forty-fifth degree of N. latitude ; thence E. 

 along said parallel of latitude to a point where said parallel 

 crosses Clarke's fork; thence N.to a jiuint 6 miles S. of the 

 first standard parallel, being on the township line between 

 townships 6 and 7 S. ; thenteW. on said township line to the 

 one hundred and tenth meridian of longitude; thence N. 

 along said meridian to a point either W. or E. of the source 

 of the eastern branch of Boulder creek; thence down said 

 eastern branch to Boulder creek; thencedown Boulder creek 

 the jilace of beginning. 



Congress ratifies provisions of Ute agreement of JIar. 6, 18>>0. . , 



President restores to public domain a portion of Fort Berthold 

 reserv;ition, established by Executive order Apr. 12, 1S70, 

 bounded as foUow.s: Beginning at a point where the north- 

 ern forty-mile limit of the grant to the Northern I'acilic 

 IJailroad intersects the present SE. boundary of the Fort 

 Berthold Indian reservation ; thence westerly with the line 

 of said forty-mile limit to its intersection with range line 

 between ranges 92 and 93 W. of the filth principal meridian ; 

 thence N. along said range line to its intersection with the 

 S. bank of Little Missouri river; thence northwesterly along 

 and up the S. bank of said Little Missouri river, with the 

 meanders thereof, to its intersection with the range line 

 between ranges 96 and 97 W. of the fifth principal meridian ; 

 thence westerly in a straight line to the SE. corner of the 

 Fort Buford military reservation; thence W. along the S. 

 boundary of said military reservatiou to the 8. bank of 

 the Yellowstone river, the present N\V. boundary of Fort 

 Berthold Indian reservatiou; thence along the ])reseut 

 boundary of said reservation and the S. bank of the Yellow- 

 stone river to the Powder river; thence up the Powder river 

 to where the Little Powder river unites with it; thence 

 northeasterly in a direct line to the point of beginning. 



President sets apart an addition to Fort Berthold reservation, 

 as follows: Beginning on the most easterly point of the 

 Ijresent Fort Berthold Indian reservation (on the Missouri 

 river); thence N. to the township line between townshi|is 

 158 and 159 N. ; thence W. along said township line to its 

 intersection with the White Earth river; thence down the 

 said White Earth river to its junction with the Jlissonri 

 river; thence along the present boundary of the Fort 

 Berthold Indian reservationand the left bank of the Missouri 

 river to the mouth of the Little Knife river; thence south- 

 easterly in a direct line to the point of beginning. 



This leaves their present reserve as described in the opi^osite 

 column. 



