ROYOE. J TREATY OF APRIL 27, 1868. 307 
into between them and the Cherokees, which were ratified by the 
President on the 11th of April, 1867. Under the conditions of this 
instrument the Delawares selected a tract of land equal to 160 acres 
for each member of their tribe who should remove to the Cherokee 
country. For this tract they agreed to and did pay one dollar per 
acre. They also paid their required proportional sum into the Chero- 
kee national fund. The number of Delawares who elected to remove 
under this agreement was 985. The sums they were required to pay 
were: for land, $157,600; and as their proportion of the national fund, 
$121,834.65, the latter amount having been calculated on the basis of 
an existing Cherokee national fund of $1,678,000 and a population of 
13,566. ; 
For a time after their removal the Delawares were much dissatisfied 
with what they characterized as the unequal operation of the Cherokee 
laws, and because much of the tract of land to which they were as- 
signed was of an inferior character. At one time some two hundred 
- of them left the Cherokee country, but after an absence of two years 
returned, since which a feeling of better contentment has prevailed. 
Following the Delawares, the Munsee or Christian Indians, a small 
fragmentary band who under the treaty of July 16, 1859, had become 
confederated with the Chippewas of Saginaw, Swan Creek, and Black 
River, residing in Kansas, perfected arrangements for their removal and 
assimilation with the Cherokees. 
An agreement was entered into” at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation, hay- 
ing this end in view, and which was duly filed with the Commissioner of 
Indian Affairs? The condition of this agreement was that, after the 
complete dissolution of their relations with the Chippewas, the Munsees 
should pay into the Cherokee national fund all moneys that should be 
found due them in pursuance of such separation. In the spring of 1868 
an effort was made by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the 
authority of this same article of the treaty of 1866, to secure a tract 
of 900,000 acres for the location of the Navajoes. This tract, it was: 
‘desired, should be so far east of 96° that sufficient room should be 
left between the Navajoes and that meridian to admit of the accom- 
modation of a settlement of Cherokees thereon. This proposition, 
however, the Cherokees refused to entertain, asserting that the Nav- 
ajoes weré not civilized Indians within the meaning of the treaty of 
1866.4 
The next Indians to avail themselves of the privileges of Cherokee 
citizenship were the Shawnees. By the treaty of 1825° a reserve had 
been granted them covering an area in the richest portion of what is now 


' Indian Office records. 
2 December 6, 1867. 
®July 31, 1868. 
4 Letter of Cherokee delegation to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, April 23, 1868. 
*Treaty of November 7, 1825, in United States Statutes at Large, Vol. VII, p. 284, 
