Title

Treaty with the Omaha, 1854

Original Signatory Tribe(s)

Omaha

Successor in Interest Tribes

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

Date Original

27 January 1854

Subjects/Keywords

provide agriculture assistance

Description

furnish a good gun and Black Smith and an assistant to reside at their new home and provide and maintain a good Shop for the exclusive benefit of the Omahas. And it is further stipulated and agreed that the United States shall cause to be ploughed in good condition and at the right time of the year for planting two hundred acres of Land.

promise to pay

Description

so much as remains unpaid of the Twenty Five Thousand Dollars agreed to be paid them for agricultural purposes by the United States in the year eighteen hundred and Fifty One;

pay to the Omaha Tribe of Indians the sum of Forty Thousand Dollars a year for the term of Thirty Years,

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), 1301

National Archives, Record Group 75, Office of Indian Affairs, Letters Received, Council Bluffs Agency, 1854, doc. I-491, M234, roll 218

Last updated in MODX

2023-10-27

MODX ID

3102;treaty-with-the-omaha-1854-22548

3102