Treaty With Choctaws and Chickasaws - Terms

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The preamble begins with,

“ The Congress of the Confederate States of America, having by "An act for the protection of certain Indian tribes," approved the twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, offered to assume and accept the protectorate of the several nations and tribes of Indians occupying the country west of Arkansas and Missouri, and recognized them as their wards, subject to all the right, privileges and immunities, titles and guarantees with each of said nation and tribes under treaties made with them by the United States of America; and the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians having each asseuted thereto, upon certain terms and conditions; ... ”

—-Treaty with Choctaws and Chickasaws, 1861.

The treaty had 64 terms. The following abbreviated terms of the treaty were:

  1. Perpetual peace and friendship
  2. Protection provided by the Confederacy
  3. Confederacy will not abandon or desert them
  4. Boundaries defined
  5. Boundaries defined continued
  6. Safe passage for Choctaws through Chickasaw district
  7. Choctaw and Chickasaw nations to give full assent to the provisions of the act of the Confederacy
  8. Confederacy solemnly guarantees the lands held the by the Choctaws and Chickasaws forever
  9. Land never will be sold
  10. No state or territory laws of the Confederacy will be passed for the Choctaws and Chickasaws governments
  11. Confederacy renews leased area from the United States
  12. Indians in the leased area shall be subject to Confederacy laws until they are capable of self-government or subjected to Choctaw and Chickasaw laws.
  13. Confederacy waterways are free to Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.
  14. Choctaw and Chickasaw nations have unrestricted right of self-government
  15. Intruders in Choctaw or Chickasaw nations subjected to removal by the nations or the Confederacy
  16. Land tracts set aside for Confederacy agencies
  17. Confederacy forts in Choctaw and Chickasaw country
  18. Confederacy right of way for railroads, telegraph lines
  19. No Settlements or farms near forts, posts, or agencies
  20. Appointments for Confederacy agent and interpreter
  21. Protection from other domestric strife, white or Indian hostilities
  22. Legal assistance, intrusion prevention, and removal of dangerous or improper persons
  23. Property thief and recovery and payments for property not found
  24. Licensed traders approved by National Council and trading taxed
  25. United States laws removed that regulated Choctaw or Chickasaw selling
  26. Choctaws and Chickasaws can take, hold and pass, purchase or descent lands in any of the Confederate States
  27. Choctasw and Chickasaws are entitled to one representative in the House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America
  28. Choctaw and Chickasaw country may be admitted as a state when they elect to do so and become citizens in the Confederate States of America
  29. Land sales proceeds belong to members of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
  30. If Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee desire to become part of the Confederate States of America, then their countries maybe annexed to become part of the Choctaw and Chickasaw confederate state
  31. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations may incorporate and determine who may be citizens of their respective nation
  32. Confederate citizens trying to settle Choctaw and Chicaksaw Nations forfeits protection of the Confederate States and maybe uncruely punished by said nations
  33. Confederate citizens may not pasture stock on Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations. Confederate citizens may peaceable pass thru Choctaw or Chickasaw Nations, and the Choctaws and Chickasaws have the same privileges in the Confederate States.

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