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Title
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Brunot Agreement, 1873
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Alternative Title
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Agreement with the Tabequache, Muache, Capote, Weeminuche, Yampa, Grand River, and Uintah bands of Ute
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Date Original
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13 September 1873
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Date Ratified
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29 April 1874
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Subjects/Keywords
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hunting fishing gathering
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Description
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The United States shall permit the Ute Indians to hunt upon said lands so long as the game lasts and the Indians are at peace with the white people.
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promise to pay
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Description
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The United States agrees to set apart and hold, as a perpetual trust for the Ute Indians, a sum of money, or its equivalent in bonds, which shall be sufficient to produce the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum; which sum of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum shall be disbursed or invested at the discretion of the President, or as he may direct, for the use and benefit of the Ute Indians annually forever.
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In consideration of the services of Ouray, head-chief of the Ute Nation, he shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum for the term of ten years, or so long as he shall remain head-chief of the Utes and at peace with the people of the United States.
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That the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue, set apart, and hold, as a perpetual fund, in trust for the Ute Indians, a sufficient amount of five-per-centum bonds of the United States, the interest on which shall be twenty-five thousand dollars per annum; which interest shall be paid annually, as the President of the United States may direct, for the benefit of said Indians.
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That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be paid to Ouray one thousand dollars, as the first installment due him annually, so long as he shall be chief of said Ute Indians; and there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, one thousand dollars for that purpose.
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Is Referenced By
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18 Stat. 36
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Treaty Type
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agreement
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Bibliographic Citation
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Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol.1, Laws, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.,1929), 151
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Deloria, Vine, Jr. and Raymond DeMallie. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. 2v. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 258
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Last updated in MODX
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2023-10-27
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MODX ID
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2978;brunot-agreement-1873-22218
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2978