Treaty with the Assiniboine, 1866
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Title
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Treaty with the Assiniboine, 1866
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Date Original
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18 July 1866
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Subjects/Keywords
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provide agriculture assistance
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Description
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may annually expend so much of the sums of Ten Thousand Dollar as he shall deem proper in the purchase of Stock, animals, agricultural implements in establishing and instructing in agricultural and mechanical pursuits such of said Indians as shall be disposed thereto and in the employment of mechanics for them
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provide healthcare assistance
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Description
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n providing necessary and proper medicine, medicinal attendance care for, and support for the aged, infirm, and sick of their number
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right of way
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Description
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The aforesaid Tribe also agree to grant and convey to the United States the right to lay out and construct roads, highways and telegraphs through their country and to use their effort to prevent them from annoyance or interruption by Indians of their own, or other Tribes, and they also grant to the United States the privilege of establishing depots and Military Stations at suitable points along said lines or lines [sic] hereby conveying all right to such reservations not exceeding ten miles square at each point for survey, settlement and cultivation at the discretion of the United States.
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telegraph lines
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roads and highways
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Description
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roads, highways
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promise to provide
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Description
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the United States agree to expend for the said Assiniboine Indians in addition to the goods and provisions distributed at the time of signing this Treaty Thirty-thousand Dollars annually, for twenty years after the ratification of this Treaty by the President and Senate of the United States to be expended in such good Provisions and other articles as the President may at his discretion from time to time determine
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provide education assistance
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Description
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in educating their children
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promise to pay
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Description
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there shall be set apart and paid to the head chief of each of the Said bands of the Assiniboine Tribe the sum of Two Hundred Dollars annually, in money or supplies so long as they and their bands remain faithful to their Treaty stipulations.
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Treaty Type
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treaty
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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), 1376
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Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 5, Laws, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O.,1941), 702
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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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3135;treaty-with-the-assiniboine-1866-22647
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3135