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Submitted by Kevin Fraley from public records Feb. 26, 1997.
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Executive Order establishing Wallowa Reservation, 1873


The above diagram is intended to show a proposed reservation for the
roaming Nez Perce Indians in the Wallowa Valley, in the State of       
Oregon.  Said proposed reservation is indicated on the diagram by red  
lines, and is described as follows, viz:                               

Commencing at the right bank of the mouth of Grande Ronde River;    
thence up Snake River to a point due east of the southeast corner of   
township No. 1, south of the base line of the surveys in Oregon, in    
range No. 46 east of the Willamette meridian;  thence from said point  
due west to the West Fork of the Wallowa River;  thence down said West 
Fork to its junction with the Wallowa River;  thence down said river to
its confluence with the Grande Ronde River;  thence down the last-named
river to the place of beginning.                                       

I respectfully recommend that the President be requested to order   
that the lands comprised within the above-described limits be withheld 
from entry and settlement as public lands, and that the same be set    
apart as an Indian reservation, as indicated in my report to the       
Department of this date.                                               

EDWARD P. SMITH, Commissioner.                                      

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, June 11, 1873.                          

Respectfully presented to the President, with the recommendation    
that he make the order above proposed by the Commissioner of Indian    
Affairs.                                                               

C. DELANO, Secretary.                                               

EXECUTIVE MANSION, June 16, 1873.                                   

It is hereby ordered that the tract of country above described be   
withheld from entry and settlement as public lands, and that the same  
be set apart as a reservation for the roaming Nez Perce Indians, as    
recommended by the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of   
Indian affairs.                                                        

U. S. GRANT.