142 MVI'OS OK THE CHEROKEE [etti. ann.19 



the two tribes, and in order to settle the difSeultv the Ignited States 

 ct)n\ened a joint eouncil of Creeks and Cherokee at Fort (jibson, with 

 the result that separate treaties were concluded with each on Februar\' 

 l-i. 1833, defining- their respective bounds to the satisfaction of all 

 concerned. By this arrang'ement the up])er Verdii;ris was confirmed 

 to the Chei'okee, and the Creeks who had settled along- that portion of 

 the stream agreed to remove to Creek territory immediately adjoining 

 on the south.' 



By the treatv made on this occasion with the Cherokee the bound- 

 aries of the tract of seven million acres granted by the treaty of 1828 

 are defined so as to correspond with the present boundaries of the 

 Cherokee country in Indian territory, together with a strip two miles 

 wide along the northern border, which was afterward annexed to the 

 state of Kansas l)y the treaty of 18»i6. A tract in the northeastern 

 corner, between Neosho or Grand river and the Missouri line, was set 

 apart for the use of the Seneca and several other remnants of tribes 

 removed from their original territories. The western outlet estab- 

 lished liy the treaty of 1828 was reestablished as a western extension 

 from the seven-million-acre tract thus bounded, being what was after- 

 ward known as the Cherokee strip or outlet plus the two-mile strip 

 extending- westward along the south line of Kansas. 



After describing the boundaries of the main residence tract, the first 

 article continues: 



In addition to the seven millions of acres of land tlias pro\'ided for and bounded 

 the ITnited States further guarantee to the Cherokee nation a perpetual outlet west 

 and a free and unmolested use of all the country lying west of the western boundary 

 of said seven millions of acres, as far west as the sovereignty of the United States and 

 their right of soil extend — provided, however, that if the saline or salt plain on the 

 great western prairie shall fall within said limits prescribed for said outlet the right 

 is reserved to the United States to permit other tribes of red men to get salt on said 

 plain in common with the Cherokees — and letters patent shall be issued by the 

 United States as soon as practicable for the lands hereliy guaranteed. 



The third article cancels, at the particular request of the Cherokee, 

 that article of the treaty of 1828 ))v which the government was to give 

 to the Cherokee a set of laws and a surveyor to survey lands for indi- 

 viduals, when so desired by the Cherokee." 



Their differences with the Creeks having been thus adjusted, the 

 Arkansas Cherokee prtjceeded to occupy the territorj- guaranteed to 

 them, where they were joined a few years later by their expatriated 

 kinsmen from the east. By tacit agreement some of the Creeks who 

 had settled within the Cherokee hoiuids were permitted to remain. 

 Among these were several families of Uchee — an int'orporated tribe 



' Treaties at Fort Gibson. February 14, 1833, with Creeks and Ctierokee, in Indian Treaties, pp. 

 5i;i-S(i9, 1837. 



- Treaty i)f 1833. Indian Treaties, pp. 561^56.5, 1837: Rnyce, Cherokee Nation, Fifth Ann. Rep. Bureau 

 of Ethnology, pp. 249-2S3, 1888; see also Treaty of New Eehota, 1835, ante, pp. 123-125. 



