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![handle is hein.doi/ibbc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 52D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. { REPORT
1St Session. No.1858.
Buffalo Library
,NDIAN BENEFICIARIES UNDER TREATY CONCLUDED AT
BUFFALO CREEK.
JULY 13, 1892.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the
Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. HOOKER, of New York, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, sub-
mitted the following
REPORT:
[To accompany H. R. 5679.]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H.
R. 5679) to provide for a settlement with the Indians who were parties
to and beneficiaries under the treaty concluded at Buffalo Creek, in the
State of New York, January 15, 1838, for the unexecuted stipulations
of that treaty, have considered the same and in respect thereto repo.rt
as follows: I
By treaties duly entered into in the years 1784 (7 Stats., 15), 1789
(7 Stats., 33), and 1794 (7 Stats., 44), the United States secured the
Six Nations of New York Indians in the peaceful possessionof their
lands described by definite boundaries and guaranteed peace and per-
petual friendship between the United States and the said Indians,
among other things engaging that the United States would never ilaim
the said lands or disturb any of the said Six Nations or their Indian
friends residing thereon and enjoying the same, and engaging that the
same should remain theirs until they chose to sell them to the United
* States.
In 1810 the said New York Indians petitioned the President of the
United States for leave to purchase reservations of their western breth-
ren, with the privilege of removing to and occupying the same, aud
thereupon with the approbation of the President lands situated at
Green Bay, Wis., were purchased by the said New York Indians frolm
the Menoinonee and Winnebago tribes. By subsequent treaties of
1821, 1822, 1831, and 1832 (Senate Doc. 189, second session, Twenty-
seventh Congress, pp. 7 to 22; 7 Stats., 345, 347, 348, 409, 305, and
342; Debates in Congressional Globe, Thirty-fifth Congress, second
session, 1858 and 1859, pp. 1634 to 1636), the United States recog-
nized the fact that prior to February, 1831, the said New York Indians,
with the approbation of the President, had purchased for a valuable
consideration from the Menomonee and Winnebago Indians certain
lands at Green Bay, Wis., in addition to three townships set apart
for the Stockbridge, Muncie, and Brothertown tribes, which said lands,
at first aggregating by their description a very much larger quantity,
were finally reduced by the United States so :as to include only 500,000
acres, in addition to the three townships aforesaid.
In the negotiations resultiug in this outcome, the United States se-
cured from the )eao.onee Indians, without any other consideration
than the assent of the United States to the ag'reement between the
Menomonees and the New York Indians, 2,500,000 acres of land
(7 Stats., 342).
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