Treaty with the Clackamas, 1851
Item
- Title
- Treaty with the Clackamas, 1851
- Original Signatory Tribe(s)
- Clackamas
- Successor in Interest Tribes
- Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
- Date Original
- 6 November 1851
- Subjects/Keywords
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roads and highways
- Description
- making necessary roads or highways
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right of way
- Description
- in building a bridge or bridges, and in making necessary roads or highways through said grounds.
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hunting fishing gathering
- Description
- They also reserve the privilege of fishing, without molestation, at all their former fishing grounds on the Clackamas River,
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crimes against Indian country
- Description
- the United States hereby guarantee to any Indian or Indians of the said tribe a full indemnification for any horses or other property which may be stolen from them: Provided, That the property so stolen cannot be recovered, and that sufficient proof is produced that it was actually stolen by a citizen of the United States, and within the limits thereof.
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promise to provide
- Description
- two thousand dollars in goods, as follows: twenty woollen coats, twenty pairs of pants, twenty vests, forty pairs shoes, twenty hats or caps, sixty shirts, one hundred blankets, twenty linen coats, twenty-five linsey plaid dresses for women, twenty-five plaid shawls, twenty-five calico dress patterns, two hundred yards domestic cotton, twenty-five pairs women's shoes, two hundred pounds soap, one hundred and fifty pounds tobacco, twenty-five bags flour, (one hundred pounds each,) two barrels molasses, one barrel rice, two hundred pounds sugar, twenty pounds tea, five eight-quart brass kettles, ten eight-quart tin kettles, ten frying pans, ten six-quart tin pans, thirty pint cups, three rifles, three axes, twelve single-barrelled shot-guns, twenty pounds shot, twenty pounds lead, three Indian horses. The above goods are to be of good quality, and the first payment is to be made as soon after the ratification of this treaty as practicable.
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promise to pay
- Description
- five hundred dollars in money
- Treaty Type
- treaty
- 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), 1296
- 32d Cong., 1st sess., S. Confidential Ex. Doc. 58
- Last updated in MODX
- 2023-10-27
- MODX ID
- 3100;treaty-with-the-clackamas-1851-22543
- 3100