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INDIAN LAND CESSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES 



IETH. ANN. 18 



SCHEDULE OF IN^DI^^ 



Where or how 

 concluded 



Reference 



Description of cession or reservation 



1891 

 Mar. 3 



Act of Con- 

 gress. 



Stat. L., 



XXVI, 



1022. 



Cheyenne and 

 Arapaho. 



Act of Con- 

 gress. 



Act of Con- 

 gress. 



Act of Con- 

 gress. 



Act of Con- 

 gress. 



Oct. 16 



Executive or- 

 der. 



Stat. L., 



XXVI, 



1027. 



Stat. L., 



XXVI, 



1032. 



Stat. L., 



XXVI, 



1035. 

 Stat. L., 



XXVI, 



1039. 



Gros Ventre 

 and M a n- 

 dan. 



Sisgeton and 

 Wahpe ton 

 Sioux. 



Hupa et al . . . 



Also cede to the U. S., subject to allotment, the following 

 lands: Commencing at a point where the Washita river 

 crosses the ninety-eighth degree of W. longitude as surveyed 

 in the years 1858 and 1871; thence N. on a line with said 

 ninety-eighth meridian tothepoint where it is crossed by the 

 Red fork of the Arkansas (sometimes called the Cimarron 

 river) ; thence np said river in the middle of the main chan- 

 nel thereof, to the N. boundary of the country ceded to the 

 r. S. by the treaty of June 14, 1866, with the Creek nation 

 of Indians ; thence W. on said N. boundary, and the N. bound- 

 ary of the country ceded to the U. t>. by the treaty of Mar. 

 21, 1866, with the Seminole Indians, to the one hundredth 

 degree of \V. longitude; thence S. on the line of said one 

 huudredth degree to the point where it strikes the N. fork 

 of the Red river; thence down said X. fork of the Red river 

 to a point where it strikes the N. line of the Kiowa and Co- 

 manche reservation ; thence E. along said boundary to a point 

 where it strikes the Washita river; thence down said Washita 

 river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the 

 place of beginning; and all other lands or tracts of country 

 in the Indian territory to which they have or may set up or 

 allege any I'ight, title, interest, or claim whatsoever. 



Confirms agreement with these Indians by which they cede to 

 the II. S. all claim they have or ever had to any lands in 

 Washington, Idaho, and Montana, except those included in 

 tlieir present reservation in Idaho. 



Confirms agreement with these Indians by which they cede to 

 the U. S. that part of their Fort Herthold reservation lying 

 N. of the forty-eiglith parallel of N. latitude, and also all 

 that portion lying W. of a N. and S. line 6 miles W. of the 

 most westerly point of the big bend of the Missouri river S. 

 of the forty-eighth parallel of N. Latitude. Also provides 

 for allotment in severalty. 



Confirms agreement with these Indians by which they cede to 

 the U. S. all the unallotted lands of their (Lake Traverse) 

 ri-servation. 



Confirms agreement with the Crow Indians of the Crow reser- 

 vation, Montana, by which they cede to the U. S. all that 

 ]iortiou of their reservation lying W. and S. of the following 

 lines: Beginuingin themid-channel of the Yellowstone river, 

 at a point which is the XW. corner of sec. 36, T, 2 N., R. 27 

 E. of the principal meridian of Montana; thence running in 

 a southwesterly direction, following the top of the natural 

 divide between the waters flowing into the Yellowstone and 

 Clarke's Fork rivers upon the W. and those flowing into 

 Pryor creek and West Pryor creek on the E., to the base of 

 West Pryor mountain ; thence due S. and up the N. slope of 

 said Pryor mountain on a true meridian line to a point 15 

 miles due N. from the established line between Montana and 

 Wyoming; thence in a due easterly course on a parallel of 

 latitude to a point where it intersects the mid-channel of the 

 Pig Horn river; thence following up the mid-channel of said 

 river to a point where it crosses the Montana and Wyoming 

 state line, except such lands in the ceded tract as have been 

 selected and set apart for the use of individual Indians. 

 These are specified in the President's proclamation of Oct. 

 15, 1892. 



The President extends the limits of their reservation so as to 

 include a tract of country 1 mile in width on each side of 

 the Klamath river, and extending from the then limits 

 thereof to the I'acific ocean. 



