358 CHEROKEE NATION OF INDIANS. 
the State of Kansas 50 by 120 miles in extent. By asubsequent treaty 
in 1854,! they ceded, in deference to the demands of encroaching civili- 
zation, all of this immense tract except 200,000 acres. Among those 
who so elected, the greater portion of this diminished reserve was 
divided into individual allotments of 200 acres each. Patents were 
issued to the head of each family for the quantity thus allotted to the 
members of his or her family, with the power of alienation, subject to 
such restrictions as the Secretary of the Interior might prescribe. In 
course of time alienation was made by these allottees of the greater 
portion of their land; the money thus received was squandered with 
the thriftless prodigality that characterizes barbarous or semi-civilized 
tribes the world over, and their impoverished condition was rendered 
still more uncomfortable by the seeming determination of the rapidly 
increasing white settlers to take possession of their few remaining 
lands. In this unfortunate condition of affairs they turned their eyes 
for relief toward the country of the Cherokees. Negotiations were en- 
tered into which resulted in the conclusion of an agreement, under date 
of June 7, 1869, and which received the approval of President Grant 
two days later. By the terms of this compact, the Shawnees then resid- 
ing in Kansas, as well as their absentee brethren in the Indian Terri- 
tory and elsewhere, who should enroll themselves and permanently 
remove within two years to the Cherokee country, upon unoceupied 
Jands east of 96°, should be incorporated into, and ever after remain a 
part of the Cherokee Nation, with the same standing in every respect 
as native Cherokees. In consideration of these benefits the Shawnees 
agreed to transfer to the Cherokee national fund a permanent annuity 
of $5,000 held by them under previous treaties, in addition to the sum 
of $50,000 to be derived from the sale of the absentee Shawnee lands 
provided for by the resolution of Congress approved April 7, 1869.7 
Under the provisions of this agreement, seven hundred and seventy 
Shawnees removed to and settled in the Cherokee country, as shown by 
the census roll filed? with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. 

FRIENDLY TRIBES TO BE LOCATED ON CHEROKEE LANDS WEST OF 96°. 
In addition to the provision contained in the treaty of 1866 concern- 
ing the location of civilized Indians east of 96°, the sixteenth article 
of that treaty made further provison enabling the United States to 
locate friendly tribes on Cherokee lands west of that meridian. The 
conditions of this concession were that any tracts selected for such 
jocation should be in compact form and in quantity not exceeding 160 
acres for each member of the tribe so located, and that the boundaries 
of the tracts should be surveyed and marked and should be conveyed 

2 United States Statutes at Large, Vol. XVI, p. 53. 
3 August 14, 1871. 
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