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Submitted by Kevin Fraley from public records Feb. 26, 1997.
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Executive Order establishing Columbia Reservation, 1872
                                           

SIR:  I have the honor to invite your attention to the necessity for
the setting apart by Executive order of a tract of country hereinafter 
described, as a reservation for the following bands of Indians in      
Washington Territory, not parties to any treaty, viz:                  

The Methow Indians, numbering 316                                   

The Okanagan Indians, numbering 340                                 

The San Poel Indians, numbering 538                                 

The Lake Indians, numbering 230                                     

The Colville Indians, numbering 631                                 

The Calispel Indians, numbering 420                                 

The Spokane Indians, numbering 725                                  

The Coeur d'Alene Indians, numbering 700                            

And scattering bands 300                                            

Total 4,200                                                         
found to be in the British possessions, the following are the natural  
boundaries of the proposed reservation, which I have the honor to      
recommend be set apart by the President for the Indians in question,   
and such others as the Department may see fit to settle thereon, viz:  
Commencing at a point on the Columbia where the Spokane River empties  
in the same;  thence up the Columbia River to where it crosses the     
forty-ninth parallel north latitude;  thence east with said 
forty-ninth parallel to where the Pend d'Oreille or Clark River crosses
the same;  thence up the Pend d'Oreille or Clark River to where it     
crosses the western boundary of Idaho Territory, the one hundredth and 
seventeenth meridian west longitude;  thence south along said one      
hundredth and seventeenth meridian, to where the Little Spokane River  
crosses the same;  thence southwesterly, with said river, to its       
junction with the Big Spokane River;  thence down the Big Spokane River
to the place of beginning.                                             

The papers hereinbefore referred to are respectfully submitted      
herewith.                                                              

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,                           

F. A. WALKER, Commissioner.                                         

The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.                                      

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.C., April 9, 1872.        

SIR:  I have the honor to submit herewith a communication dated the 
8th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying 
papers, representing the necessity for the setting apart, by Executive 
order, of a tract of country therein described for certain bands of    
Indians in Washington Territory not parties to any treaty.             

The recommendation of the Commissioner in the premises is approved, 
and I respectfully request that the President direct that the tract of 
country designated upon the inclosed map be set apart for the Indians  
referred to, and such others as this Department may see fit to settle  
thereon.                                                               

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,                

B. R. COWEN, Acting Secretary.                                      

To the PRESIDENT.                                                   

EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, April 9, 1872.                       

It is hereby ordered that the tract of country referred to in the   
within letter of the Acting Secretary of the Interior, and designated  
upon the accompanying map, be set apart for the bands of Indians in    
Washington Territory named in communication of the Commissioner of     
Indian Affairs dated the 8th instant, and for such other Indians as the
Department of the Interior may see fit to locate thereon.              

U.S. GRANT.