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the exclusive right ut' taking lish and gathering edible roots, seeds, and 

 berries within the reservation. Provision is made by which the right of 

 way for public roads and railroads across said reservation is reserved to 

 citizens of the United States. 



Article 2. As a payment for the ceded lands the Indians shall receive 

 $8,000 per annum for a period of live years, $5,000 per annum for the next 

 five years, and the sum of $,'5,000 per annum for the five years next suc- 

 ceeding. 



Article 3 provides for the payment of $35,000 for removing the In- 

 dians to the reservation, subsisting them during the first year, and provid- 

 ing them with clothing, teams, tools, seeds, etc. 



Articles 4 and 5 provide for the establishment of a saw-mill, a flouring- 

 miU, a manual-labor school, and hospital buildings, all to be maintained 

 and supplied witli working material at the expense of the United States for 

 the period of twenty }-ears. Employe's for running these establishments 

 shall be paid and housed by the Grovernment also. 



Article 6 reserves the right to the Grovenmient to provide each Indian 

 family with lands in severalty to the extent of forty to one hundred and 

 twenty acres, and to guarantee possession to them. Indians ai'e not allowed 

 to alienate these lands. 



Article 9. The Indians acknowledge their dependence upon the Gov- 

 ernment of the United States, and pledge themselves to be friendly with 

 all citizens thereof, to commit no depredations upon the persons or property 

 of said citizens, and to refrain from carrying on any war upon other Indian 

 tribes. 



Article 10 prohibits the sale and use of liquors upon the Reservation, 

 and Article 1 1 permits the Government to locate other Indian tribes thereon, 

 the parties to this treaty not losing any rights thereby. 



The treaty was proclaimed February 17, 1870. 



Like most of the treaties concluded between the United States Gov- 

 ernment and the Indian tribes, this compact was made much more to the 

 advantage of the white man than of his red brother. Not only were the 

 stipulated annuities rather small for a body of Indians, which was then 

 considered to number about two thousand i^eople, but these annuities were 



