Agreement with the Shoshone and Bannock, 1898
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Title
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Agreement with the Shoshone and Bannock, 1898
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Date Original
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5 February 1898
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Subjects/Keywords
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right of way
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Description
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The existing main traveled roads leading from McCammon to Blackfoot and from McCammon to American Falls are declared public highways, and the proper use of such is hereby granted to the general public.
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hunting fishing gathering
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Description
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to hunt thereon and to fish in the streams thereof.
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provide education assistance
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Description
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Seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000), or as much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended by the Secretary of the Interior in the erection of a modern school plant for the Indians of the Fort Hall Reservation at a point near the present agency, said point or site to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior, and the surplus remaining, if any, of the above seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) may be expended by the Secretary of the Interior for the educational needs of said Indians.
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roads and highways
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Description
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The existing main traveled roads leading from McCammon to Blackfoot and from McCammon to American Falls are declared public highways, and the proper use of such is hereby granted to the general public
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promise to pay
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Description
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One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall be paid in cash pro rata, share and share alike, to each man, woman, and child belonging to and actually residing on said reservation, within three months after the ratification of this treaty by the Congress of the United States. The remainder of said sum total shall be paid pro rata in like manner, as follows:
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water rights
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Description
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The water from streams on that portion of the reservation now sold which is necessary for irrigating on land actually cultivated and in use shall be reserved for the Indians now using the same, so long as said Indians remain where they now live.
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Is Referenced By
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31 Stat. 672
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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), 406
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Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 1, Laws, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.,1904), 704
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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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3038;agreement-with-the-shoshone-and-bannock-1898-22399
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3038