Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler. Washington :
Government Printing Office, 1904. |Cession of land by the
Shawnee.| |United States to give a certain tract in exchange.|
|A deputation to explore the lands.| |Payment of claims against
citizens of United States.| |Tools, etc. for the use of a
blacksmith, to be furnished.| |Treaty obligatory when ratified.|
Articles of a convention made between William Clark,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and the undersigned Chiefs and
Head Men of the Shawonee Nation of Indians, residing within the
State of Missouri, duly authorized and empowered by said Nation,
at the City of St. Louis, on the seventh day of November, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five.
WHEREAS the Shawnee Indians were in possession of a tract of
land near Cape Geredeau, in the State of Missouri, settled under
a permission from the Spanish Government, given to the said
Shawnees and Delawares by the Baron De Carondelet, on the fourth
day of January, one thousand seven h