Title

Agreement with the Rosebud Sioux, 1907

Original Signatory Tribe(s)

Rosebud Sioux

Successor in Interest Tribes

Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

Date Original

21 January 1907

Subjects/Keywords

promise to provide

Description

he shall also allot one hundred and sixty (160) acres of land to each child of Indian parentage, whose father or mother is or was, in case of death, a duly enrolled member of the Sioux tribe of Indians belonging on the Rosebud Reservation, who is living at the date of the approval of the act ratifying this agreement and who has not heretofore received an allotment and such allotments shall be made prior to the lands being opened to settlement and entry, upon any unallotted land within said reservation, including the tract ceded by Article I of this agreement

promise to pay

Description

It is further agreed that of the amount to be derived from the sale of said lands, as stipulated in Article III of this agreement, the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) shall, from the first moneys received from the sale of these lands, be devoted to the creation of a fund of one million dollars, which shall be deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Indians, parties hereto, and which shall draw five per cent interest for a period of ten years from the date of such deposit, which interest shall be paid to the beneficiaries per capita in cash annually. That at the expiration of ten years after said fund of one million dollars shall have been deposited in the United States Treasury to the credit of the Rosebud Indians, said fund shall be equally distributed among the beneficiaries, parties hereto: Provided, That the proceeds derived from the sale of said lands, after the one million dollars of the ten years' interest-bearing fund and herein provided for has been created, shall be expended for the benefit of the Rosebud Indians, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, upon an application by a majority petition of the Indians, parties hereto, through and upon the recommendation of the Indian agent in charge of the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

Is Referenced By

34 Stat. 1230

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), 490

59th Cong., 2d sess., S. Rpt. 6831: 1-3

59th Cong., 2d sess., S. Rpt. 6838: 4-7

Last updated in MODX

2023-10-27

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