THE GEOKGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 877 



The following resolutions, prepared by the committee, were then unanimously 

 adopted, to wit : 



^' Be it resolved by the representatives of the Seminoles, CUckasaws, Choctaws, Creeks 

 and Cherolcees in convention assembled, That, in order to strengthen the bonds of amity 

 and fraternal feeling between them, to secure more harmonious action in the support 

 of their common rights and the more efiScient administration of law between them- 

 selves, we recommend to the national councils of our respective nations the enactments 

 of law on the following subjects, to wit : 



"First. Providing for the causes and manner in which the arrest and rendition of 

 fugitives from justice, escaping from one nation to another tepresented in this con- 

 vention, may be demanded. 



" Second. Providing for equal remedies at law between the individual members of 

 said nations in civil cases arising between citizens of different nations. 



" Third. Providing for the confederation of the nations and the tribes of the Indian 

 Territory under one Indian government uponsuch terms as will not conflict with their 

 several tribal rights and guarantees, and their relations to the Government of the 

 United States under treaties now in force. 



"Be it farther resolved, That the executive and legislative branches of the Govern- 

 ments of the said Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations are hereby 

 requested to use their authority to have their respective delegations to Washington 

 instructed to work in concert for securing the passage of the bills by Congress in 

 reference to intruders and depredations upon timber upon Indian lands which were 

 passed by the United States Senate during the >ession of the Forty-eighth Congress, 

 and which were favorably reported by the House Committee on Indian Affairs. 



" Eespectfully submitted. 



•'Julius C. Folsom, 



" Chairman." 



I am informed these resolutions were indorsed by each of the legislatures of the five 

 na'*B»ns. In the Creek council by only one majority on the Oklahoma proposition. 



The meetings of the delegates were held several times afterwards with a view of 

 determining on some plan of federation for the tribes. No conclusion has yet been 

 reached. 



A short time since Hon. J. M. Ferryman, principal chief of the Creeks, called a con- 

 vention at Eufaula with the Seminoles to discuss the matter of Oklahoma, with a 

 view of regaining title to the so-called Oklahoma land not settled by friendly Indians, 

 dud have the Seminoles indorse such contract as might be made by the Creeks with 

 attorneys for that purpose. Chief John F. Brown, of the Seminole Nation, sent as 

 delegates Mr. Tom Little and Hul-but-to. The Creek delegates were Mr. G. W. Gray- 

 son, G. W. Stidhara, and Roley Mcintosh. Mr. Mcintosh was here yesterday, and 

 from him I learn the Creek delegates were favorably disposed to consider, at least, 

 jiropositions in relation to Oklahoma, the idea being presented that its present status 

 was indefinite and unsatisfactory, and negotial^ions should be entered into with a 

 view of making its position determinate. The Seminoles being absolutely non-com- 

 mittal on the subject, and the Seminoles in common with the Creeks having certain 

 reversionary interest therein, the convention adjourned without action. 



OKLAHOMA. 



"Oklahoma" is the tract of land in Indian Territory, Nos. 15, 20, and 

 21, on the map facing this p ige, and containing 1,887,800.47 acres, 

 being the Creek and Seminole cession to the United States nnder treat- 

 ies herein set out on page 856 et seq. 



For a complete history of the Indian holdings in Indian Territory, 

 and more especially the present status (1886) of the lands acquired from 



