APPENDIX B
TREATIES BETWEEN THE IOWA AND THE UNITED STATES, 1815-1861
(For further reference to treaties with complete amendments thereto see Laws and Treaties, by Charles J. Kappler, 2 vols. Washington, 1903. The early texts of some of the first peace negotiations previous to the publication date, can be found in the volumes of The American State Papers, edited by Walter Lowrie and Matthew St. C. Clarke, Indian Affairs, 2 vols. Washington, 1832. See also Royce, Cessions of Land by Indian Tribes to the United States, in Rep. B. A. E., vol. 1, 1881, and the same author’s Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Rep. B. A. E., 1889).
TREATY WITH THE IOWAS, [SEPTEMBER 16,] 1815
A treaty of peace and friendship, made and concluded at Portage des Sioux, between William Clark, Ninian Edwards, and Auguste Chouteau, Commissioners Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said States, of the one part; and the undersigned, King, Chiefs, and Warriors, of the Iaway Tribe or Nation, on the part and behalf of the said Tribe or Nation, of the other part.
The parties being desirous of re-establishing peace and friendship between the United States and the said tribe or nation, and of being placed in all things, and in every respect, on the same footing upon which they stood before the war, have agreed to the following articles:
Article 1
Every injury, or act of hostility, by one or either of the contracting parties against the other shall be mutually forgiven and forgot.
Article 2
There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all the citizens of the United States and all the individuals composing the said Ioway tribe or nation.