S. W. White
Indian Office Miscellaneous Files, 1851-1854.
C. Street, Aug. 19, ’53.
To Geo. W. Manypenny Esq., Com. of Indian Affairs,
Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday with the accompanying copy of a letter to the Hon. Mr. Atchison, and make my thanks to you for this mark of your attention. The reply will be immediately forwarded to Meas Ami, to be published in the same paper in which your note to me covering the map on which the Indian’s cessions & reserves west of Missouri, was published. Very respectfully, Sir, Yr. obt. servant,
Thomas H. Benton.
Indian Office Miscellaneous Files, 1851-1854.
[20] Ray, op. cit., 86; Connelley, in Kansas Historical Society, Collections, vol. vi, 102; Connelley, Provincial Government of Nebraska Territory, pp. 24, 30 et seq.
The Wyandots took an active part in the Kansas election troubles. For some evidence of that, see, House Reports, 34th congress, first session, no. 200, pp. 22, 266.
[21] By the treaty of 1837 [Kappler, op. cit., vol. ii, 486], the Choctaws, for a money consideration as was natural, agreed to let the Chickasaws occupy their country jointly with themselves and form a Chickasaw District within it that should be on a par with the other districts (Moo-sho-le-tubbee, Apucks-hu-nubbe, and Push-ma-ta-ha), or political units, of the Choctaw Nation. The arrangement meant political consolidation, one General Council serving for the two tribes, but each tribe retaining control of its own annuities. The boundaries of the Chickasaw District proved the subject of a contention, constant and bitter. Civil war was almost precipitated more than once. Finally, in 1855, the political connection was brought to an end by the terms of the Treaty of Washington [Kappler, op. cit., vol. ii, 706], negotiated in that year.