Representatives of the Sauk and Fox tribes sign a convention with U.S. Superintendent of Indian Affairs Henry Dodge to address earlier land allotments and manage native lands.

The evidence

• “Treaty with the Sauk and Fox Tribe, 1836 Treaty with the Sauk and Fox Tribe, 1836 Sept. 27, 1836. | 7 Stat., 516. | Proclamation, Feb. 15, 1837. In a convention held this twenty-seventh day of September 1836, between Henry Dodge Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and the chiefs, braves, and principal men of the Sac and Fox tribe of Indians, it has been represented, that according to the stipulations of the first article of the treaty of Prairie du Chien, of the 15th July 1830, the country thereby ceded, is “to be assigned and allotted under the direction of the President of the United States, to the tribes now living thereon, or to such other tribes as the President may locate thereon for hunting and other purposes.” And, whereas, it is further represented to us, the chiefs, braves, and principal men of the tribe aforesaid, to be desirable that the lands lying between the State of Missouri and the Missouri river should be attached to, and become a part of said State, and the Indian title thereto be entirely extinguished; but that, notwithstanding, as these lands compose a part of the country embraced by the provisions of said first article of the treaty a”

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