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Titles
Ratified Indian Treaty 238: Stockbridge and Munsee - Stockbridge, Wisconsin Territory, September 3, 1839
Other Titles
RIT #238
RIT 238
Ratified Indian Treaty #238
National Archives Identifier
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/187794494
Level of description
File Unit
Creation date
Sept. 3, 1839
Contains
Treaty Between the United States and the Stockbridge and Munsee Indians Signed at Stockbridge, Wisconsin Territory, with Schedule Referred to in Articles 2 and 3 of Treaty
Senate's Advice and Consent to Treaty Ratification
Note to the Secretary of State from the Office of Indian Affairs Signed by T. Hartley Crawford
Small Cover Sheet: "1839. Stockbridge & Munsee tribes of Indians. Concluded Sept. 3rd, 1839. Ratified May 16th, 1840"
Instrument of Ratification Signed by President Martin Van Buren and Secretary of State John Forsyth
Typed Copy of Letter from Assistant Secretary John Appleton, Department of State, to Acting Commissioner Charles E. Mix, Office of Indian Affairs
Named Native nations
Munsee
Stockbridge
Present-day Nations
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma
Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the Bad River Reservation, Wisconsin
Bay Mills Indian Community, Michigan
Stockbridge Munsee Community, Wisconsin
Cessions with shared date(s)
257
Signatory
United States of America