Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, 1858

Item

Title
Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, 1858
Original Signatory Tribe(s)
Sioux
Yankton
Date Original
1858
19 April 1858
Date Proclaimed
26 February 1859
Date Ratified
16 February 1859
Successor in Interest Tribe(s)
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
Subjects/Keywords
Treaties
Statutes
Indians of North America
United States
Description
the United States may construct and use such roads as may be hereafter necessary across their said reservation by the consent and permission of the Secretary of the Interior, and by first paying the said Indians all damages and the fair value of the land so used for said road or roads
The United States shall have the right to establish and maintain such military posts, roads
Description
The said chiefs and delegates hereby further stipulate and agree that the United States may construct and use such roads as may be hereafter necessary across their said reservation by the consent and permission of the Secretary of the Interior, and by first paying the said Indians all damages and the fair value of the land so used for said road or roads
The United States shall have the right to establish and maintain such military posts, roads, and Indian agencies as may be deemed necessary
Description
o expend ten thousand dollars to build a school-house or school-houses, and to establish and maintain one or more normal-labor schools (so far as said sum will go) for the education and training of the children of said Indians in letters, agriculture, the mechanic arts, and housewifery
President to the support of said schools, and to furnish said Indians with assistance and aid and instruction in agricultural and mechanical pursuits, including the working of the mills
Description
Twenty-five thousand dollars in maintaining and subsisting the said Indians during the first year after their removal to and permanent settlement upon their said reservation; in the purchase of stock, agricultural implements, or other articles of a beneficial character, and in breaking up and fencing land; in the erection of houses, store-houses, or other needful buildings
the laborers so to be furnished by the Indians may be allowed a fair and just compensation for their services, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and to be paid out of the shares of annuity of such Indians
MODX ID
370;treaty-with-the-yankton-sioux-1858-0776
Last Updated in MODX
2023-10-27
Compiler and Editor
Kappler, Charles J.
Description
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, is a historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes.
Is Referenced By
11 Stat. 743
Publisher
Government Printing Office
Temporal Coverage
1788-1883
Treaty Type
treaty
Bibliographic Citation
Charles Joseph Kappler, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 2, Treaties, (Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1904), 776.
Identifier
oksd_kap_v2_304
RIT_307
NAI_178710468