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278) giving them permission to examine the country. The 
removal took plaice in the years 1832.-3 3, and in 1833 a treaty 
(7 Stats., 417) conveyed to them the tract numbered 2 on 
Plate IX. By this treaty the Seminoles, with whom a treaty 
of removal had been made- in 1832 (7 S'tats., 369), were to be in¬ 
corporated into the Cheek nation and to enjoy a part of their 
lands. A patent was issued to the Creeks for this land in 
1851. 1 
The first session of land west of the Mississippi to the Choc¬ 
taws was made by a treaty of 1820 (7 Stats., 210), by which 
they were given the tract of lanl between the Arkansas river 
with its branch, the Canadian, and the Bed river. By the 
treaties of 1825 and 1830 (7 Stats., 333), this tract was re¬ 
stricted on the east to the western Arkansas boundary, making 
it coincide with Tract 3, Plate IX. The patent was not issued 
to the Choctaws for this land, however, until 1842, at which time 
the Ohickasaws, who gave up their lands east of the Mississippi 
in 1832 (7 Stats., 381), had been settled there also. 2 Thus 
the whole of Indian Territory, excepting the small Quapaw 
agency (Tract 4, Plate IX), was covered by these three let¬ 
ters patent of 1838, 1842 and 1851 to the Cherokees, Choctaws 
and Creeks respectively. 
In 1837 an agreement was entered into between the Choc¬ 
taw and Chickasaw Indians by which the Choctaws formed the 
western part of their domain into the Chickasaw district as a 
permanent home for that tribe, but never to be alienated with¬ 
out the consent of both tribes. By a second convention in 
1854 this district was defined as is indicated by Tracts 4 and 
5, Plate X. The next year the United States made a treaty 
(11 Stats., 611) with the two tribes, by which the Chickasaw 
district was confined to Tract 4, Plate X, and the territory 
west of this 1 —Tract 5—was leased to the United States for a 
permanent home for the Wichitas and such other Indian tribes, 
with certain exceptions, as the United States might see fit to 
locate there. 3 
1 Sen. Ex. Doc., 78, 51 Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 15-16. 
2 Ibid., pp. 24-25. 
3 Ibid., pp. 25-27. 
