Agreement with the Confederated Bands of Ute, 1880
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Title
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Agreement with the Confederated Bands of Ute, 1880
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Original Signatory Tribe(s)
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Ute
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Date Original
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6 March 1880
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Subjects/Keywords
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right of way
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Description
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The said chiefs and headmen of the confederated bands of Utes further promise that they will not obstruct or in anywise interfere with travel upon any of the highways now open or hereafter to be opened by lawful authority in or upon any of the lands to be set apart for their use by virtue of this agreement.
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provide agriculture assistance
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Description
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and to see that they are well provided with agricultural and pastoral lands sufficient for their future support, and upon such settlement being duly effected, that they are furnished with houses, wagons, agricultural implements, and stock cattle sufficient for their reasonable wants, and also such saw and grist mills as may be necessary to enable them to commence farming operations,
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provide education assistance
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Description
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United States Government will establish and maintain schools in the settlements of the Utes, and make all necessary provision for the education of their children.
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promise to pay
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Description
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agrees to set apart and hold, as a perpetual trust for the said Ute Indians, a sum of money, or its equivalent in bonds of the United States, which shall be sufficient to produce the sum of fifty thousand dollars per annum, which sum of fifty thousand dollars shall be distributed per capita to them annually forever.
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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 forever”
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Treaty Type
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agreement
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Bibliographic Citation
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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), 277
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Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 1, Laws, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.,1904), 180
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1881), 208
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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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2998;agreement-with-the-confederated-bands-of-ute-1880-22300
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2998