TREATY WITH THE CADDO

7 Stat., 472, July 1, 1835, Proclaimed ****

Articles supplementary to the treaty made at the agency house in the Caddo nation and State of Louisiana on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five between Jehiel Brooks Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs head men, and Warriors of the Caddo nation of Indians concluded at the same place, and on the same day between the said Commissioner on the part of the United States and the Chiefs Head men and Warriors of the said nation of Indians, to wit

WHEREAS the said nation of Indians did in the year one thousand eight hundred and one, give to one Francois Grappe and to his three sons then born and still living, named Jacques, Dominique and Belthazar, for reasons stated at the time and repeated in a memorial which the said nation addressed to the President of the United States in the month of January last, one league of land to each, in accordance with the Spanish custom of granting land to individuals. That the chiefs and head men, with the knowledge and approbation of the whole Caddo people did go with the said François Grappe, accompanied by a number of white men, who were invited by the said chiefs and head men to be present as witnesses, before the Spanish authority at Natchitoches, and then and there did declare their wishes touching the said donation of land to the said Grappe and his three sons, and did request the same to be written out in form and ratified and confirmed by the proper authorities agreeably to law.

And WHEREAS Larkin Edwards has resided for many years to the present time in the Caddo Nation was a long time their true and faithful interpreter, and though poor he has never sent the Red man away from his door hungry. He is now old and unable to support himself by manual labor, and since his employment as their interpreter has ceased possesses no adequate means by which to live: Now therefore

ARTICLE 1. It is agreed that the legal representatives of the said François Grappe deceased and his three sons Jacques, Dominique, and Belthazar Grappe, shall have their right to the said four leagues of land reserved to them and their heirs and assigns for ever. The said land to be taken out of the lands ceded to the United States by the said Caddo Nation of Indians as expressed in the treaty to which this article is supplementary. And the said four leagues of land shall be laid off in one body in the southeast corner of their lands ceded as aforesaid, and bounded by the Red river four leagues and by the Pascagoula bayou one league, running back for quantity from each, so as to contain four square leagues of land, in conformity with the boundaries established and expressed in the original Deed of Gift made by the said Caddo nation of Indians to the said Francois Grappe and his three sons Jacques, Dominique, and Belthazar Grappe.

ARTICLE 2. And it is further agreed that there shall be reserved to Larkin Edwards his heirs and assigns for ever one section of land to be selected out of the lands ceded to the United States by the said nation of Indians as expressed in the treaty to which this article is supplementary in any part thereof not otherwise appropriated by the provisions contained in these supplementary articles.

ARTICLE 3. These supplementary articles, or either of them, after the same shall have been ratified and confirmed by the President and Senate of the United States, shall be binding on the contracting parties, otherwise to be void and of no effect upon the validity of the original treaty to which they are supplementary.

In testimony whereof, the said Jehiel Brooks, commissioner as aforesaid, and the chiefs, head men, and warriors of the said nation of Indians, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals at the place, and on the day and year above written.

J. Brooks,

Tarshar, his x mark

Tsauninot, his x mark

Satiownhown, his x mark

Tinnehinan, his x mark

Oat, his x mark

Tinnowin, his x mark

Chowabah, his x mark

Kianhoon, his x mark

Tiatesun, his x mark

Tehowawinow, his x mark

Tewinnun, his x mark

Kardy, his x mark

Tiohtow, his x mark

Tehawahinno, his x mark

Toackooch, his x mark

Tchowainin, his x mark

Sanninow, his x mark

Sauninot, his x mark

Hiahidock, his x mark

Mattan, his x mark

Towahinnek, his x mark

Aach, his x mark

Soakiantow, his x mark

Sohone, his x mark

Ossinse, his x mark.

In presence of-

T. J. Harrison, captain, Third Regiment, commanding detachment.

J. Bonnell, first lieutenant, Third Regiment U. S. Infantry.

G. P. Field, brevet second lieutenant, Third Regiment U. S. Infantry.

D. M. Heard, M. D., acting assistant surgeon, U. S. Army.

Isaac C. Williamson,

Henry Queen,

John W. Edwards, interpreter.