Goshute Indians; Treaties; Indian/White Relations; Indians of North America; Land Rights; Federal Government; railroads; Mining; Tabby
Place names
Tooele; Great Salt Lake; United States; Utah
Tribe
Goshute
Creator
Charles J. Kappler
Publisher
Digitized by: J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date.original
1904
Type
image
Format
application/pdf
Source
Government Printing Office
Language
eng
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TREATY WITH THE SHOSHONI-GOSHIP, 1883.
Witnesses to the treat
Jno. 9. Nimlay, gcretary to the Cammission.
Chas. Chroughton, Colonel First Cavalry of Colorado, Com- E. Phillips, &slrisbnt Secretary to Commission.
J. W.
manding D~strict.
Samuel F. Tappan, Lieutenant-Colonel First Cavalry of Colo-
rado.
Charles Kerher, Captain, Firat Cavalry of Colorado.
J. P. Benesteel, Captain, First Cavalry of Colorado.
Inte reters: Valdes.
an V.
,Bernard0 Sanchez his mark. x
Amador Sanchez, his mark. x
TREATY WITH THE BHOBHOHI-WHIP, 1863.
act 12,
th Tsrritory . lam.
eight hun- 71 sub.. MI.
RatiIled Mu 7 1664
Arnmkz, npn- -,dm& j j.
Ooehip
prim&d men, and
and friend
A~CLE Peace and friendehi is hereby established and lndians 1. hall be
hereafter maintained between the hoshonee-Goship bands of the said
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and the citizens and Government of the United Stah; and
bands stipulate and agree that hostilities and all depredations upon the
nt trains, the mail and telegraph liues, and upon the citizens
of ABTI~E It further stipulated by said bands that the several t e United States, within their country, shall chse.
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routes of travel through their country now or hereafter used by white peaceful.
men shall be forever free and uuobstructed by them, for the use of
the Government of the United States, and of all emigranta and travel-
lers within it under ita authority and protection, without molestation
or injury from them. And if de redations are at an time committed Surrenderofdend-
by bad men of their own or ot er tribes within eir country, the
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offenders shall be immediately taken and delivered up to the proper
o5cers of the United States, to be punished as their offences may
deserve; and the wfety of all travellerv passing peaceably over either
of wid routes is hereby guaranteed by said .bands.
Military posts may be established by the President of the United It2Apg"ts an,
States alon said routes, or elsewhere in their country; and station-
houses may% erected and occupied at such iota may u be necessary
for the comfort and convenience of travel ers or for the uee of the P"
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860 TBEATY WITH THE IJHOS~ONI-o08HIP, 1863. .
Mines, mmsl and
mnchea. A~TI~LE It is further agreed by the parties hereto that the coun- 4.
t of the Goship tribe may be ex lored and prospected for gold and
si ver, or other minerals and meta a; and when minea ai'e discovered
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the may be worked, and mining aud agricultural settlements formed
tm ranchos established wherever they may also for building and other be required. Mills may
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Tlmber.
be erected and timber taken for their use, as
purpom, in an part of said country.
Boundnriea.
ARTICLE 5. ! t is understood that the boundaries of the country
claimed and occupied by the Goship tribe, by the middle of the Great w defined and described by
said bands, are as follows: On the north on the south by Tooedoe or
Desert; on the west b Ste toe Valley;
Green Mountains; andon %e east by Great Salt Lake, TuiP, and
Rush Valleys. The said bands agree that whenever the President of the
Renervstions.
ARTICLE 6.
United States shall deem it expedient for them to abandon the roam-
in life which they now lead, and become settled as herdsmen or ri-
cu turisti, he is hereby authorized f to make such reservations for Xeir
use as he ma deem necessary; and the do also agree remove their to
~den~th~n. camps to SUE f!' reservations as he may in8icnte. and to reside and remain
thereon.
Annulilea.
ARTICLE The United States being aware of the inconvenience 7.
resulting to the Indians, in coneequence of the driving away and
destruction of game along the routea travelled by white men, and by
the formation of agricultural and mini settlements, are willin to
fairly compensate them for the same. 1 herefore, and in cons1 era-
.d
tion of the preceding sti ulations, and of their faithful observance by
said bands, the United Etatea promise and agree to pay to the said
Goshi tribe, or to the said bands, partiea hereto, at the option of the
Yresi ent of the United Statee, aunually for the term of twenty years, cf'
Cattle.
the sum of one thouaand dollars, in suck articles, including cattle for
herding or other pur~~m, as the President shall deem suitable for
their wanta and condition either as hunters or herdsmen. And the
said bands, for themselves and for their tribe, hereby acknowledge the
Recsipt.
reception of the said sti ulated annu~ies a full com~nsation and as
equivalent for the loss o game and the rights and privile
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conceded; and also one thousand dollars In provisions an $ goods hereby at
and before the signing of this treaty.
ARTICLE Nothing herein contained shall 8. be construed or taken to
admit any other or greater title or interest in the lands embraced
within the territories described in said treaty in said tribes or ban& of
lndians than existed in them u n the acquisition of said territories
from Mexico by the laws thereor
James Duane Doty, commissioner.
P. Edw. Connor,
Brigadier-Geueral U. S. Volunteers,
Commanding District of Utah.
Tabby, his mark. x
Adaseim, his x mark.
Tintsa-pa-gin, his x mark.
Harray-nup, his x mark.
Witneasea:-
Amos Reed.
Chas:H. Hem tead,
captain an chief commissary district of Utah.
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William Uebon, interpreter. Lee, interpreter.
Jps. A.
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