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Beilage F. 
Handels- and Friedens -Vertrag zwischen der American -Far 'Company and dem Stamme der Blacbfeet 
VTe send greeting to all mattkind! Be it known unto all natiom, that the 
most ancient, most illustrious and most numerous tribes of the red skins, lord of 
the soil from the banks of the great waters unto the tops of the mountainSy upon 
which the heavens rest, have entered into solemn league and covenanty to make 
preserve and cherish a firm and lasting peace, that so long as the water runs, 
or grass grows, they mag hail each other as brethern and smoke the cälumet in 
friendship and security, 
On the vigil of the feast of St. Andrew in the year eighteen hundred and 
thirty one, the power ful and distinguished nation ofBlackfeet, Piegan- and Blood- 
Indians, by their ambassadors c>o(^<^c^c^ooojo»jojoo appeared at Fort 
Union near the spot where the Yellow Stone-River unites its current with the 
Missouri, and in the Council- Chamber of the Governor Keneth M<:kenzie met, the 
principal chief of all the Assifiiboin- Nation, the man that holds the knife, atten- 
ded by his chief s of Council, le Brechu, le Borgne, the Sparrow, the Bears 
Arm, la Terre qui trembe, andVEnfent de medecine c*^ when conforming to all 
ancient customs and ceremonies cv> and observing the due mystical signs enjoined 
by the grand medecine -lodges , a treaty of peace and friendship was entered into 
between the said high contracting parties, and is testified by their hands and seals 
hereunto annexed, hereafter and for ever to live as brethern of one large united 
liappy family, and may the great spirit, who whatchet over us all approve cur 
conduct and teach us to love one another. 
Done, executed, ratified and confirmed at Fort Union ou the day and year 
first within, tvritten in the presence of Jas Archdale Hamilton. 
Uo Chardon 
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