30 THE MENOMINI INDIANS [bth.ami.14 



from all private claims confirmed, and also the following reservation for military 

 purposes: Beginning on the Fox River, at the mouth of the first creek above Fort 

 Howard, thence north sixty-four degrees west to Duck Creek; thence down said 

 Duck Creek to its mouth; thence up and along Green Bay and Fox River to the 

 place of beginning. The Menomonee Indians also reserve, for the use of the U. 

 States, from the country herein designated for the New York Indians, timber and 

 firewood for the United States garrison, and as much land as may be deemed 

 necessary for public highways to be located by the direction and at the discretion 

 of the President of the United States. The country hereby ceded to the United 

 States, for the benefit of the New York Indians, contains by estimation, about five 

 hundred thousand acres, and includes all their improvements on the west side of 

 Fox River. 



In consequence of this treaty the hopes of Eleazer Williams were 

 crushed, and those of the Ogden Laud Company were not encouraged. 

 The land set apart for the New York Indians was evidently too limited 

 for agricultural purposes. Colonel Stambaugh feared that his treaty 

 would not be adopted by the Senate, and also that his appointment as 

 Indian agent — which had not yet been acted upon — would not be con- 

 firmed; so he again had the Meuomini called before the commissioners 

 and some supplements made to the treaty, by which two of the most 

 objectionable features were remedied. The Senate refused to take up 

 the treaty at the ensuing session, and it was not till 1832 that it was iu 

 shape for promulgation. Even then the Menomini opposed the plan of 

 the New York Indians to put a fort on the land south of the Little 

 Kakalin, and their assent was necessary, so that an amicable settle- 

 ment was not reached till 1832. 



In 1838 another treaty was made between the Oneida Indians 

 and the United States regarding some money which they wanted, as 

 sole representatives of the large cession of the treaty of 1831, by the 

 Menomini on the western side of Fox river. The following extracts 

 will serve to indicate the chief points upon which the Oneida were ad- 

 vised, by their missionary, to base their claim, viz: 



Art. 1. The First Christian and Orchard parties of Indians, cede to the United 

 States all their title and interest in the land set apart for them in the first article of 

 the treaty with the Menomonees, of February Nth. 1831, and the secoud article of the 

 treaty with the same tribe, October 27th. 1832. 



Art. 2. From the foregoing cession there shall be reserved to the said Indians, to 

 be held as other Indian lands are held, a tract of land containing one hundred acres, 

 for each individual, and the lines shall be so run as to include all their settlements 

 and improvements in t ho vicinity of Green Bay. 



Art. 3. In consideration of the cession contained in the first article of this treaty, 

 the United States agree to pay to the Orchard party of the Oneida Indians three 

 thousand dollars, and to the First Christian party of Oneida Indians thirty thou- 

 sand and five hundred dollars, of which last sum three thousand dollars may be 

 expended, under the supervision of the Rev. Solomon Davis, in the erection of a 

 church and parsonage house, and the residue apportioned, under the direction of 

 the President, among the persons having .just claims thereto; it being understood 

 that said aggregate sum of thirty thousand and five hundred dollars is desigued to 

 be in reimbursement of monies expended by said Indians, and in remuneration of 

 the services of their chiefs and agents, iu purchasing and securing a title to the 



