Treaty with the Tualatin Band of Kalapuya, 1854
Item
- Title
- Treaty with the Tualatin Band of Kalapuya, 1854
- Original Signatory Tribe(s)
- Kalapuya
- Successor in Interest Tribes
- Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon
- Date Original
- 25 March 1854
- Subjects/Keywords
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provide agriculture assistance
- Description
- furnish iron and steel for said shop
- furnish iron and steel for said shop
- In order that this and contiguous Bands may be properly instructed in agriculture, the United States engage to provide and maintain a farmer to reside on said Indian Reserve, who under the control of the Superintendent or Indian Agent, shall supervise and direct the farming operations of said band for the aforesaid term of twenty years.
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promise to provide
- Description
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At the time of signing this treaty, two yoke of oxen, two yokes and chains, one breaking plow, ten hoes, six axes and helves, thirty blankets, twenty two ready made women's dresses, thirty two pairs shoes, four pairs boots, three caps, thirty hickory shirts, twenty four spear knives, twenty four cotton flag handkerchiefs, five cans powder, twenty pounds lead ball and shot, twenty four camp kettles, twelve hundred pounds flour, fifty pounds coffee, two hundred pounds sugar, twenty five pounds tea, thirty six tin cups, twenty four tin pans, one beef, ten bushels spring wheat, twenty bushels potatoes, two bushels pease, one bushel corn, ten bushels oats and half a bushel beans, for seed, and five boxes percussion caps.
As soon as practicable after the ratification of this treaty, one thousand dollars in cattle, hogs, agricultural implements, seeds, clothing and such other articles as shall be deemed most conducive to their comfort and well-being.
At the time of their removal to the country hereafter to be assigned them one thousand dollars, in teams, wagons, clothing, provisions, and other necessary articles, and three hundred dollars in money, to be distributed among the several families according to the number of persons in each.
For one year from and after their removal to the reserve to be assigned them, they shall be provisioned at the expense of the United States, their rations of food to be according to the army regulations, and annually thereafter for the term of twenty years said Band shall receive the following articles. To wit:
Twenty 2 1/2 point and thirty 3 point Mackinaw blankets, three hundred yards domestic, four hundred yards prints, thirty coats, thirty pairs pants, thirty vests, sixty pairs shoes, thirty hats or caps, sixty shirts, thirty pairs woollen half hose, thirty pairs cotton hose, sixty cotton handkerchiefs, thirty belts, four pounds linnen and four pounds cotton thread, twenty two papers assorted needles, two dozen thimbles, four gross assorted buttons, thirty sheet-iron camp kettles, thirty tin pans, fifteen frying pans, sixty tin plates, six sets knives and forks, two dozen spoons, sixty tin cups, ten axes, ten hoes, four hundred pounds salt, one hundred and fifty pounds soap, five hundred pounds sugar, fifty pounds tea, two rifle guns, two double barrelled shot guns, twenty pounds powder, eighty pounds lead and shot, forty boxes gun caps and one hundred and fifty pounds tobacco; which articles shall be delivered to said Band in October or November of each year at the Agency for the District in which said Band shall be located.
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crimes against Indian country
- Description
- And it is further agreed that if an injury shall be inflicted on the person or property of a member of said Band by a citizen of the United States, that there shall be no personal retaliation and revenge, but complaint thereof shall be made to the Agent, who shall cause such offender to be dealt with according to the laws of the United States, and if any property belonging to the Band or any member thereof shall be stolen or destroyed, said property or its value shall be restored to the owner.
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provide education assistance
- Description
- With a view to provide for the mental and moral elevation of the Indians the United States engage to provide and set apart the sum of Six thousand dollars, which together with the several sums for the same purpose granted to the Bands to be located contiguously, shall constitute a fund for the establishment and support of a Manual Labor School, so long as said Bands shall exist, which fund shall be expended in such manner, and under such regulations as shall be prescribed on the part of the United States for the common benefit of the Tribes which shall become interested in said fund.
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provide healthcare assistance
- Description
- Inasmuch as the Indians of ten suffer greatly when sick or disabled for want of proper medical aid, judicious noursing, and from the absence of requisite comforts, the United States agree to set apart the sum of Two thousand dollars, which sum together with the several sums granted to the Bands to be located contiguously, shall constitute a fund for the establishment of a hospital for the Indians to be erected at some convenient point on or near the reserve aforesaid, the support of a physician, and the procurement of suitable supplies.
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promise to pay
- Description
- three 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), 1306
- National Archives, Record Group 75, Office of Indian Affairs, Treaty File, T494, roll 8: 790
- Last updated in MODX
- 2023-10-27
- MODX ID
- 3104;treaty-with-the-tualatin-band-of-kalapuya-1854-22552
- 3104