THE GEORGE CATLIN INDIAN GALLERY. 855 



The following tracts remain unsurveyed: 



Acres. 



The Cherokee Reservation, estimated 5,031,351 



The Creek Reservation, estimated 3,215,495 



The Choctaw Reservation, estimated 6,688,000 



The Ottawa Reservation, estimated 14,860 



The Seminole Reservation, estimated 200,000 



Total estimated area unsurveyed 15, 149, 706 



Previous to the treaties of 1866 — 



Acres. 



Tl ie Q napaws owned 75, 1 67 



The Mixed Senecas and Shawnees 63,767 



T I io Senecas of Sandusky 73, 364 



The Cherokees 13,172,235 



The Creeks 6,998,808 



The Seminoles 1, 682,883 



The Choctaws and Cliickasaws 19, 032, 174 



Total area of Indian Territory 41,098,398 



By the fourth article of the Omnibus treaty of February 23, 1867 (15 Stats., p. 514), 

 the Quapaws ceded to the United States 18,482 acres of their lands, at the rate of 

 $1.15 per acre, and the United States, by the twenty-second article of the same treaty, 

 sold the same to the Peorias, &c, at the same rate, leaving a reservation of 56,685 

 acres to the Quapaws, which they still hold. 



By the second article of said treaty the Mixed Senecas and Shawnees ceded to the 

 United States the north half of their reserve, estimated to contain 30,000 acres, for 

 the sum of $24,000, which land, by the twenty-second article of the same treaty, was 

 sold by the United States to the Peorias, &c, at the same price. This tract, by sur- 

 vey, contains 31,819 acres, which, with 18,482 acres of Quapaw lands, constitutes the 

 present Peoria, &c, reservation of 50,301 acres. 



, By the third article the Mixed Senecas and Shawnees ceded to the United States 

 that portion of their remaining lands west of Spring River, supposed to contain 12,000 

 acres, at $1 per acre, which land, by the sixteenth article, was sold to the Ottawa 

 Indians by the United States, at $1 per acre, and constitutes the present Ottawa re- 

 serve, and contains, by survey, 14,860 acres. Of the remainder of their lands, 17,088 

 acres, the Shawnees, by an agreement with the Modoc Indians, made June 23, 1874, 

 and confirmed by Congress March 3, 1875 (18 Stat., p. 447), sold to the United States 

 4,040 acres for $6,000 as a permanent reservation for the Modoc Indians, which is still 

 held by them, leaving 13,048 acres, which the Shawnees hold and occupy as their re- 

 serve. 



By the first article of the same treaty the Senecas of Sandusky ceded to the United 

 States a strip of land on the north side of their reservation, containing 20,000 acres, 

 for $20,000, which land, by the thirteenth article, the United States set apart as a 

 future home for the Wyandots. By the fourteenth article provision is made for the 

 reimbursement to the United States of the cost of the land. This tract, the present 

 Wyandot reserve, contains 21,406 acres. The Senecas hold the remainder, 51,958 

 acres, as their present reservation. 



The Cherokees, by the sixteenth article of the treaty of July 19, 1866 (14 Stats., p. 

 799), ceded to the United States the authority to settle friendly Indians on any part 

 of their lands west of 96 degrees. These lands (8,140,884 acres), when so occupied 

 by friendly Indians, are to be paid for to the Cherokees, at such prico as may be agreed 

 upon, as stipulated in said sixteenth article. 



In accordance with this stipulation and an act of Congress approved June 5, 1872 

 (17 Stats., p. 228), the Kansas and Osage tribes of Indians were settled upon the tract 

 of country lying between the Arkansas River and 96 degrees, the Kaws occupying a 

 tract of 100,141 acres and the Osages a tract of 1,466,167 acres. The price paid for 

 these two tracts was 70 cents per acre. 



By the fourth section of an act of Congress approved April 10, 1876 (19 Stats., p. 28), 

 there was set apart, for the uss and occupation of the Pawnee Indians, a tract of 



