Title

Agreement with the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache, 1892

Original Signatory Tribe(s)

Comanche

Kiowa

Apache

Successor in Interest Tribes

Comanche Nation, Oklahoma

Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma

Apache Tribe of Oklahoma

Date Original

6 October 1892

Has Version

Kappler's v. 1

University of Oklahoma College of Law

Subjects/Keywords

mining and mineral rights

Description

That should any of said lands allotted to said Indians, or opened to settlement under this Act, contain valuable mineral deposits, such mineral deposits shall be open to location and entry, under the existing mining laws of the United States, upon the passage of this Act, and the mineral laws of the United States are hereby extended over said lands.

promise to pay

Description

"As a further and only additional consideration for the cession of territory and relinquishment of title, claim, and interest in and to the lands as aforesaid, the United States agrees to pay to the Comanche, Kiowa, and Apache tribes of Indians, in the Indian Territory, the sum of two million (2,000,000) dollars, as follows: Five hundred thousand ($500,000) dollars to be distributed per capita to the members of said tribes at such times and in such manner as the Secretary of the Interior shall deem to be for the best interests of said Indians, which sum is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; and any part of the same remaining unpaid shall draw interest at the rate of five per centum while remaining in the Treasury, which interest shall be paid to the Indians annually per capita; and the remaining one million five hundred thousand ($1,500,000) dollars to be retained in the Treasury of the United States, placed to the credit of said Indians, and while so retained to draw interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, to be paid to the said Indians per capita annually.

Is Referenced By

31 Stat. 676

Treaty Type

agreement

Bibliographic Citation

Deloria, Vine, Jr. and Raymond DeMallie. Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. 2v. (Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 355

51st Cong., 2d sess., S. Ex. Doc. 17

Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 1, Laws, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.,1904), 708

Last updated in MODX

2023-10-27

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