April 12, 2024
1808, James Madison, Indian Treaty at Fort Clark, Osage Nations, original acts
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This item is a wonderful, original printing, dated 1808, of the Treaty passed between James Madison and the Osage Indians at Fort Clarke.Treaty is 7 pages, 6x9, disbound from original volume of the third congress, else in overall very good condition.The Treaty of Fort Clark (also known as the Treaty with the Osage or the Osage Treaty) was signed at Fort Osage (then called Fort Clark) on November 10, 1808 (ratified on April 28, 1810) in which the Osage Nation ceded all the land east of the fort in Missouri and Arkansas north of the Arkansas River to the United States.The Fort Clark treaty and the Treaty of St. Louis in which the Sac (tribe) and Fox (tribe) ceded northeastern Missouri along with northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin were the first two major treaties in the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. The affected tribes, upset with the terms, were to side with the British in the War of 1812. Following the settlement of that war, John C. Sullivan for the United States was to survey the ceded land in 1816 (adjusting it 23 miles westward to the mouth of the Kansas River to create the Indian Boundary Line west of which and south of which virtually all tribes were to be removed in the Indian Removal Act in 1830.Please view the other historical and Civil War related documents I'll be listing this week.SEE SCAN.I now accept PAYPAL
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