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Kelley *********************************************************************** Ohio's Huron and Wyandot Indians -- Part 4 Chippewa Treaty with the Wyandot -- 1785 The Chippewa Treaty includes 11 articles and is signed at the end. Most of the signatures of the Indians were marked with his x mark. Articles of a treaty concluded at Fort M'Intosh, the twenty-first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, betwen the Commisioners Pienpotentiary of the United States of America, of the one part, and the Sachems and Warriors of the Wyandot of the Wiandot, Delaware, Chippawa, and Ottawa Nations of the other. The Commissioners Pienipotentiary of the United States in Congress assembled, Give peace to the Wiandot, Delaware. Chippews, and Ottawa Nations of Indias, on the following conditions: ARTICLE I. Three chiefs, one from among the Wiandot, and two from among the Delaware Nations, shall be delivered up to the Commissioners of the United States, to be by them retained till all prisoners, white and black taken by the said nations, or any of them shall be restored. ARTICLE II. The said Indian Nations do acknowledge themselves and all their tribes to be under the protection of the United States and no other sovereign whatsoever. ARTICLE III. The boundary line between the United States and the Wiandot, and Delaware nations, shall begin at th mouth of the River Cayahoga and run thence up the said river to the portage between that and the Tus-carawas branch of Meskingum; then down the said branch to the forks at the crossing place above Fort Lawrence; then westerly to the portage of the Big Miami, which runs into the Ohio, at the mouth of which branch the fort stood which was taken by the rench in one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two; then along said portage to the Great Miami or Ome River, and down the south-east side of the same to its mouth; thence along the south shore of Lake Erie, to the mouth of Cayahoga where it began. ARTICLE IV. The United States allot all the lands contained within said lines to the Wiandot and Delaware nations, to live and to hunt on, and to such of the Ottawa nation as now live there on; saving and reserving for the establishment of trading posts, six miles square at the mouth of Miami or Ome River, and the same at the portage on that branch of the Big Miami which runs into the Ohio, and the same on the Lake of Sandusky where the fort formally stood, and also two miles square on each side of the lower rapids of Sanduske river, which posts and the lands annexed to them, shall be to the use and under the government of the United States. ARTICLE V. If any citizen of the United States, or person not being an Indian, shall attempt to settle on any of the lands allotted to the Wiandot and Delaware nations in this treaty, except on th lands reserved to the United States in the preceding article, such person shall forfeit the protection of the United States, and the Indians may punish him as they please. ARTICLE VI. The Indians who sign this treaty, as well in behalf of all their tribes as of themselves, do acknowledge the lands east, south and west of the lines described in the third article, so far as the said Indians formaly claimed the same to belong to the United States; and none of the tribes shall presume to settle upon the same, or any part of it. ARTICLE VII. The post of Detroit, with a district beginning a the Mouth of the River Rosine, on the west end of Lake Erie, and running west six miles up the southern bank of the said river, thense northerly and always six miles west of the strait, till it strikes the Lake St.Clair, shall be also reserved to the sole use of the United States. ARTICLE VIII. In the same manner the post of Michillimachenac with its dependencies, and twelve mles square about the same, shall be reserved to the use of the United States. ARTICLE IX. If any Indian or Indians shall commit a robbery or murder on ny citizen of the United States, the tribe to which such offenders may belong, shall be bound to deliver them up at the nearest post, to be punished according to the ordinances of the United States. ARTICLE X. The Commissioners of the United States, in pursuance of the humane and liberal views of Congress, upon this treaty's being signed, will direct goods to be distributed among the different tribes for their use and comfort. SEPERATE ARTICLE. It is agreed that the Delaware chiefs, Kelelamand or Lieutenant-Colonel Henry. Hengue Pushees or the Big Cat. Wicocalind or Captain White Eyes, who took up the hatchet for the United States, and their families, shall be received into the Delaware nation, in the same situation and rank as before the war, and enjoy their due portions of America, or as any other person or persons in the said nation. Go. Clark, Richard Butler, Arthur Lee, Daunghquat, his x mark, Abraham Kuhn, his x mark, Ottawerren, his x mark, Hobocan, his x mark, Walendightun, his x mark, Talapoxic, his x mark, Wingenum, his x mark, Packelant, his x mark, Ginewanno, his x mark, Waanoos, his x mark, Konalawassee, his x mark, Shawnaqum, his x mark, Quecookkia, his x mark, Witness; Sam'l J. Atlee, Fras. Johnston, Pennsylvania Commissioners; Alex. Campbell Jos. Harmer, Lieutenant-Colonel commadant. Alex. Lowrey Joseph Nicholas, Interpreter, I. Bradford, George Slaughter, Van Swearingen John Boggs G. Evans, D. Luckett. ****************************************************** to be con't in part 5--