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Titles
Ratified Indian Treaty 315: Arapaho and Cheyenne (of the Upper Arkansas) - Fort Wise, Kansas Territory, February 18, 1861
Other Titles
Treaty of Fort Wise, 1861
Ratified Indian Treaty #315
RIT 315
RIT #315
National Archives Identifier
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/74799191
Level of description
File Unit
Creation date
Feb. 18, 1861
Contains
Printed Copy of the February 18, 1861, Treaty Between the United States of America and the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River (Copy 2 of 2)
Clipping of the Printed Text of Article 1st of the February 18, 1861 Arapaho and Cheyenne Treaty
Printed Copy of the February 18, 1861, Treaty Between the United States of America and the Arapahoe and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River (Copy 1 of 2)
Treaty Between the United States and the Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians of the Upper Arkansas River Signed at Fort Wise, Kansas Territory
Senate's Advice and Consent to Treaty Ratification, with Amendment, and Consent to Amendment Signed by Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians on October 29, 1861
Typed Copy of Letter from Assistant Secretary of State Frederic W. Seward to Commissioner of Indian Affairs William P. Dole
Typed Copy of Letter from Secretary of the Interior Caleb B. Smith to Secretary of State William H. Seward
Instrument of Ratification Signed by President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward
Typed Copy of Letter from Chief Clerk Charles E. Mix, Office of Indian Affairs, to Chief Clerk W. Hunter, Department of State
Typed Copy of Letter from W. Hunter, Chief Clerk of the State Department, to Charles E. Mix, Chief Clerk of the Indian Office
Named Native nations
Arapaho
Cheyenne
Kansa
Kansas
Present-day Nations
Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma
Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma
Kaw Nation, Oklahoma
Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana
Cessions with shared date(s)
426
477
Signatory
United States of America