BULL. 30J 



TREATIES 



805 



for the United States to allow it to extend 

 to the territory claimed, where the boun- 

 daries were recognized and acknowledged 

 by the surrounding tribes. It would 

 seem, in fact, that the United States pro- 

 ceeded on the theory that all the lands 

 within their territorial bounds were held 

 by the natives, and hence that the posses- 

 sory right of the Indians thereto must be 

 extinguished. The only variation from 

 this rule was in the case of the Uinta Ute, 

 where an omitted portion of their claimed 

 territory was taken possession of (18th 

 Rep. B. A. E., pt. II, 824, 1900). From 

 the formation of the Goverment to Mar. 3, 

 1871, there were entered into 371 treaties 



with the Indians, including the Ft Lara- 

 mie treaty of Sept. 17, 1851, with the Sioux, 

 Assiniboin, Blackfeet, et al., which never 

 appeared in the statutes, although acted 

 on and subsequently recognized. This 

 treaty, however, was printed in the Laws 

 and Treaties of 1883 and 1903. The treaty 

 of Sept. 23, 1805 (at the mouth of St 

 Peters or Minnesota r. ), with the Sioux, 

 was also not printed in the statutes, 

 though ratified by the Senate, and was 

 never proclaimed by the President (see 

 Compilation of Treaties, 1903, p. 793). 

 The following list of the 370 treaties (that 

 of Ft Laramie in 1851 being omitted ) was 

 published by the Indian OflBce in 1903: 



List of all Indian treaties and agreements made tvith the several tribes of Indians in the 

 United States which have been ratified {alphabetically arranged) , with the date of each 

 treaty and where the same appears in the Statutes at Large. 



*Act of Congress. 



