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INDIAN LAKD CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES [etb.ann.i8 



BCIIEDXJLE OF INIDI^iVIsT 



Where or how 

 concluded 



Reference 



1889 

 Mar. 2 



May 



July 8 



to 

 Nov. 21 



Act of Con- 

 gress. 



Executive or- 

 der. 



Stat. L., 

 XXV, 888. 



H. R. Ex. 

 Doc. 247, 

 51st Coug. 



1st sess. 



iJe'^icripilon of cession or reserraiiou 



Lower Bml^ 

 Sioux. 



Crow Creek 

 Sioux. 



mission Indi- 

 ans. 



Chippewa of 

 Uinnesota, 



Bed Lake Chip- 

 pewa (1). 



For tlie Indians receiving rations and annuities .at the Lower 

 Brule agency, the lands bounded as follows: Beginning on 

 t!ie Missouri river at Old Fort Geoige; tlii'nce running due 

 W. to the western boundary of Fresho county; thence run- 

 ning S. on said western boundary to the forty-fourth degree 

 of latitude; thenee on said forty-fourth degree of latitude 

 to western boundary of T. 72; thence S. on said town- 

 ship western line to an intersecting line ruuuing <lue W. 

 from Fort Lookout ; thenee eastwardly on said line to the 

 center of the main chaunel of the Missouri river at Fort 

 Lookout; thenee N. in the center of the main channel of the 

 said river to the original starting point. 



For the Indians receiving rations and annuities at Croiv Creek 

 agency, the following lands: The whole of T. 106, R. 70; T. 



107, a. 71; T. 108, R. 71; T. 108, R. 72; T. 109, R. 72, and 

 the S. half of T. 109, R. 71; and all, except sees. 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 

 10, 11, and 12 of T. 107, R. 70, and such i>arts as lie on the 

 E. or lelt bank of the Missouri river, of the following town- 

 ships, namely: T. 100, R. 71; T. 107, R. 72; T. 108, R. 73; T. 



108, R. 74; T. 108, R. 75; T. 108, R. 70; T. 109, R. 73; T. 109, 

 R. 74; S. half of T. 109, R. 75; and T. 107, R. 73; also the 

 ^V. half of T. 106, R. 69, and sees. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 

 30, 31, 32, and 33 of T. 107, R. 69. 



The President orders certain lands to be withdrawn from sale 

 and set apart as a reserve for the Mission Indians, as fol- 

 lows: T. 10 S., R. 4 i;., and Bees. 3 and 4, T. 11 S., R. 4 E. of 

 the San Bernardino meridian, except so much of the same as 

 is covered by the patents issued to J. J. Wiirner, Jan. 16, 

 1880, and to Harmon T. Helm, Jan. 16, 1886, are hereby 

 withdrawn from sale and settlement, and set apart as a res- 

 ervation for the Mission Indians: Provided, however, that 

 any other tract or tracts the title of which has passed out 

 of the U. S., or to which valid, legal rights have attached 

 under existing laws of the U. S. providing for the disposi- 

 tion of the public domain, are also hereby excepted and 

 excluded from the reservation hereby created. 



By agreement various bands of these Indians respectively cede, 

 as specified below, their title to the sundry tracts designated. 



Cede to the U. S. .all their title aud interest in so much of the 

 Red Lake reservation a.s is not embraced in the following 

 boundaries: Commcueing at the point on Thief river where 

 the same crosses the liueliet ween Marshall and I'olk counties; 

 thence easterly to the most northwesterly point of the upper 

 Red lake; thence easterly along the northerly shore of said 

 upper Red lake to a point due N. of a point 1 mile E. fr^ni 

 the easterly end of the lower Red lake: thence due S. to the 

 the last-named point ; thence southwesterly i u a straight line 

 to a point on Hay creek 1 mile from where said creek enters 

 the lower Red lake; thence S. to a point from which a line 

 extending W. passes midway between what is called the " Big 

 marsh" and the sugar bush N. of, and nearest to, said marsh, 

 said sugar bush being on the Red Lake aud White Earth road ; 

 thence W. aloug said line between said marsh aud sugar bush 

 to Clear Water river, said line being supposed to be about 6 

 miles S. of the lower Red lake; thence northwesterly aloug 

 said Clear Water river to the point where said river crosses 

 the boundary of Red Lake reservation as the same has here- 

 tofore existed ; thence aloug said reservation line to the place 

 of beginning, as designated ou a map published in 1888 by 

 Rand, McNally & Co., of Chicago, Illinois. (Signed July 8, 

 1889.) 



