Agreement with the Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan, 1902
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Title
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Agreement with the Arikara, Hidatsa, and Mandan, 1902
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Date Original
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25 June 1902
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Subjects/Keywords
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promise to pay
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Description
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In consideration of the land ceded, relinquished, and conveyed by Article I of this agreement, the United States stipulates and agrees to expend for and pay to said Indians, in the manner hereinafter provided, the sum of two hundred and sixty thousand (260,000) dollars.
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shall be paid to said Indians per capita in cash to each man, woman, and child, share and share alike, in three annual installments, the first and second of which installments to be twenty (20) dollars per capita each, the first of which per capita payments to be made to said Indians in the month of July following the ratification of this agreement; the second installment to be paid in the month of July of the year following the first payment, and all money remaining from the proceeds of the cession of the lands ceded by article 1 of this agreement, at the expiration of two years from the date of its ratification, except the sum set apart to provide for the old and helpless, shall be paid in full, per capita in cash, to said Indians in the month of July following the said second per capita cash payment.
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promise to provide
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Description
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It is agreed that of the amount to be expended for and paid to said Indians, as stipulated in Article II of this agreement, a fence, approximating one hundred and ten (110) miles in length, shall be constructed along the outboundaries of the reservation to enclose the diminished reservation, except along the Missouri and the Little Missouri rivers where said streams form a portion of the boundary lines along the northwestern and southwestern corners of the reservation, which fence shall be constructed of four wires (standard barbed or equal), with posts set one rod apart from centers, and with not less than ten substantially constructed swing gates on main traveled roads from said reservation to the adjacent white settlements and frequented railroad points, the boundary lines of the diminished reservation to be surveyed or retraced so that the fence may be constructed along its boundary lines, and five thousand (5,000) head of stock cattle, native range two-year-old heifers and one hundred and fifty (150) graded Hereford two-year-old bulls, and sixty (60) spans of American mares, from three to six years of age, and one hundred (100) mowing machines (Buckeye or equal), and one hundred (100) one-horse hay rakes shall be purchased by the Government and issued to said Indians as soon as practicable after the ratification of this agreement, with the understanding that only one half of the said heifers and bulls shall be purchased and delivered to said Indians the first year, and the other half to be purchased and delivered to them the following year, and that the sum of fifty thousand (50,000) dollars shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of said Indians, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior in providing subsistence and clothing for the old and helpless of said tribes, parties hereto, not exceeding five thousand (5,000) dollars of which to be expended in any one year
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Is Referenced By
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36 Stat. 455
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Treaty Type
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agreement
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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), 464
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57th Cong., 2d sess., H. Doc. 194
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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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