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  Medicine Lodge Treaty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Medicine Lodge Treaty was a treaty that the United States of America signed with the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho at Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1867.
What is known as the Medicine Lodge Treaty actually consisted of three separate treaties.
The Medicine Lodge Treaty assigned reservations with the aforementioned tribes, bringing them in close contact with the Sioux, Shoshones, Bannocks, and Navajos, setting the scene for more conflict for dwindling resources.
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 Medicine Lodge -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
rightthumbSigning of the Medicine Lodge Treaty The Medicine Lodge Treaty was a treaty that the United States of America signed with the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho at Medicine Lodge, Kansas in 1867.
The Lodge is the official residence of the Prime Minister of Australia in the national capital Canberra.
The Lodge is a large, two-storey house, located in 18,000 square metres of landscaped grounds.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/96/medicine-lodge.html   (816 words)

  
 The Medicine Lodge Treaty
The Indians chose the area known as Medicine Lodge.
The treaty became known as the Medicine Lodge Treaty.
The Medicine Lodge Treaty did not end all the fighting.
www.sirinet.net /~project/MedicineLodgeTreaty.html   (802 words)

  
 Abrogation of Treaties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Treaties can be modified or repealed by legislation and Congress has employed its power on numerous occasions, such as the "termination era" of the 1950's.
The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 established a reservation in Oklahoma for the Kiowa and Comanche tribes.
The treaty required the approval of three-fourths of the male population before any land could be ceded from the tribes.
www.skc.edu /netbook/05-Pre-allotment.htm   (1208 words)

  
 Sworn Statement of I-See-O concerning the location of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in October 1867.
That I was present at the said peace treaty as a member of the Kiowa tribe of Indians, and that for a period of about three weeks during the said October while the negotiations were going on, I became well acquainted with the surrounding country.
Hunt came to Medicine Lodge in the spring of 1926 in response to a message from the Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Council Treaty Memorial Association, asking for the help of I-See-O in locating the exact spot where the famous treaty was held in the latter part of October 1867.
To all points west of Medicine Lodge, however I-See-O objected on the grounds that the hills were too near; the stream flowing in from the north was much too small, and the general contour of the ground did not agree with his recollection of the place where the Treaty Council was held.
www.rootsweb.com /~ksbarber/ml_pc_located.html   (3013 words)

  
 National Park Service - Soldier and Brave (Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site)
The treaties did not bring peace, but they are significant as the first such documents aimed at remaking the Plains Indians in the white man's image and absorbing them into American society rather than merely removing them from areas of settlement.
Jack Howland's sketch of a council with Kiowas and Comanches that preceded the Medicine Lodge Treaty.
The treaties were signed in the area south and east of the modern town of Medicine Lodge.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/soldier/siteb9.htm   (944 words)

  
 Treaty
TREATY WITH THE CHEYENNE AND ARAPAHO {1867, Oct. 28}
The United States may pass such laws on the subject of alienation and descent of property, and on all subjects connected with the government of the Indians on said reservations, and the internal police thereof as may be thought proper.
But should such roads or other works be constructed on the lands of their reservation, the Government will pay the tribe whatever amount of damage may be assessed by three disinterested commissioners to be appointed by the President for that purpose, one of said commissioners to be a chief or head-man of the tribe.
www.nps.gov /fols/Plains_Indians/Treaty/body_treaty.html   (850 words)

  
 Red River War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 called for two reservations to be set aside in Indian Territory—one for the Comanche and Kiowa and one for the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho.
According to the treaty, the government would provide the tribes with many basic services and training, housing, food and supplies, including guns and ammunition for hunting.
Commercial buffalo hunters ignored the terms of the treaty as they moved into the area promised to the Southern Plains Indians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_River_War   (987 words)

  
 Comanche-Part Three
By the time the treaty was amended and ratified in March, 1847, the Comanches were very upset and certain they had been betrayed.
The result was a milestone peace conference held at Medicine Lodge Creek in southern Kansas (October, 1867).
The treaty was ratified in July, and funds were made available, but the responsibility for the administration of annuities was placed with the army.
www.dickshovel.com /ComancheThree.html   (4753 words)

  
 Medicine Lodge, Kansas - brought to you by LASR - Leisure And Sport Review
Nestled in valley of the spectacular Gypsum Hills is the historic town of Medicine Lodge, so name for the Indian council house once located on the legendary healing waters of the Medicine River.
The town was the site of the signing of the historic Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty between the United States Government and the five tribes of Plains Indians - Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Apache.
A reproduction of the "medicine lodges" built by the Kiowa Indians can be found in the Stockade Museum located adjacent to the Carry Nation Home.
www.lasr.net /pages/city.php?City_ID=KS0201013   (430 words)

  
 Oklahoma Timeline
This treaty was confirmed by the treaties of 1826 and 1832.
A treaty was perfected with the few present and the Senate ratified this, making the official proclamation May 23, 1836.
Alliance and friendship treaties were signed by Commissioner Pike with representatives from parts of the Comanche, Wichita, Waco, Caddo, Anadarko, Tawakony, Tonkawa, Keechi, and Delawares August 12 at Anadarko, with the Osage, Quapaws, Senecas and Shawnees October 2-4.
www.usgennet.org /usa/ok/state/timeline.html   (4530 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
The lodge included the leaning tree by which the man sat; there were three other saplings, trimmed at the base with the boughs left at the top.
The Dog Men blessed the man and promised that he should be successful in all of his undertakings and that his people, his society, and his band would become the greatest of all if he carried out their instructions.” Later, the Cheyenne discovered the camp.
This treaty was accepted as binding by most of the Cheyennes, but the Dog Soldiers would have nothing to do with it, though two attempts were made to induce them to leave lands which they had never ceded to the government.
digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v001/v001p090.html   (2460 words)

  
 The Avalon Project : Treaty With the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache; October 21, 1867.
The United States, on its part, agrees that clothing and other articles named in Article X. of said original treaty, together with all money or other annuities agreed to be furnished under any of the provisions of said treaty, to the Kiowa and Comanches, shall be shared equally by the Apaches.
In all cases where specific articles of clothing are agreed to be furnished to the Kiowas and Comanches, similar articles shall be furnished to the Apaches, and a separate census of the Apaches shall be annually taken and returned by the agent, as provided for the other tribes.
In consideration of the advantages conferred by this supplementary treaty upon the the Apache tribe of Indians, they agree to observe and faithfully comply with all the stipulations and agreements entered into by the Kiowas and Comanches in said original treaty.
www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/kicoap67.htm   (230 words)

  
 out of the past medicine lodge treaty signed 1867
These words were stated in the Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty of 1867, drawn between the U.S. government and five tribes of Plains Indians -- the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche -- at a place known as Medicine Lodge in southern Kansas.
The different tribes of Indians peacefully shared a "lodge" on the banks of the Medicine River, which they believed had the power to cure ills.The Kiowa went there once a year to bathe in the healing waters of the river.
The treaty promised to protect the Indians from white hunters, to provide them with schools and farming tools, and to give them allotments of food and clothing.
www.outriderbooks.com /1867.html   (851 words)

  
 Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty
That treaty was drawn between the U.S. government and the five tribes of Plains Indians -- the Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche in the city of Medicine Lodge in southern Kansas.
This treaty allowed for white settlements in the area, opened it up to railroads, and fixed the southern boundary of Kansas.
Today, the treaty is celebrated every three years with a colorful outdoor pageant re-enacting the events that led to the signing at the place where the Medicine River and Elm Creek meet on the Kansas prairie, now designated Memorial Peace Park.
www.americaslibrary.gov /cgi-bin/page.cgi/es/ks/medicine_1   (218 words)

  
 Sitting Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Satank (Set-ankeah, translated as Sitting Bear), was a prestigious Kiowa warrior and medicine man. He was born about 1800, probably in Kansas, and killed in 1871.
After the death of the Kiowa supreme chief Dohäsan in 1866 Satanta took over the leadership, with Satank leading the Koitsenko.
1867 he signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty together with Satanta and other Kiowa chiefs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sitting_Bear   (382 words)

  
 Lecture 71: Treaties and Proclamations, 1850—1887
Accordingly, the government quickly began to negotiate treaties and establish relations with the tribes of the West.
From 1853 to 1856 alone, the Indians of the West were forced to cede 174 million acres of land in 52 treaties.
The initial treaties concentrated on securing the peace; subsequent treaties required enormous land cessions.
daphne.palomar.edu /llewis/AIS101/101Lectures/M7/lec71.htm   (1489 words)

  
 FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
By a separate treaty the Apache tribe of Indians was incorporated with the two formernamed, and became entitled to share in the benefits of the reservation.
In addition to the grievance previously stated in the memorial, the charge was made that the interpreters falsely represented, when the said treaty was being considered by the Indians, that the treaty provided 'for the sale of their surplus lands at some time in the future at the price of $2.
The power exists to abrogate the provisions of an Indian treaty, though presumably such power will be exercised only when circumstances arise which will not only justify the government in disregarding the stipulations of the treaty, but may demand, in the interest of the country and the Indians themselves, that it should do so.
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 The Comanche
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, the Battle of Adobe Walls, the Jerome Agreement and the Oklahoma land openings were but a few of these events.
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge was signed in 1867 in Kansas with the Comanche, Kiowa, Apache, Cheyenne and Arapaho.
The size of the horse allowed the Indian to acquire larger lodges and more possessions than was possible when dogs were used for transportation.
www.snowwowl.com /peoplecomanche.html   (3639 words)

  
 Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S. 553, 23 S.Ct. 216, 47 L.Ed. 299 (1903)
By a separate treaty the Apache tribe of Indians was incorporated with the two former named, and became entitled to share in the benefits of the reservation.
Until the year 1871 the policy was pursued of dealing with the *566 Indian tribes by means of treaties, and, of course, a moral obligation rested upon Congress to act in good faith in performing the stipulations entered into on its behalf.
When, therefore, treaties were entered into between the United States and a tribe of Indians it was never doubted that the power to abrogate existed in Congress, and that in a contingency such power might be availed of from considerations of governmental policy, particularly if consistent with perfect good faith towards the Indians.
www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/USSCT_Cases/Lone_Wolf_v_Hitchcock_187_553.htm   (2780 words)

  
 Red River War
The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867 called for two reservations to be set aside in Indian Territory—one for the Comanche and Kiowa and another for the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho.
According to the treaty, the government would provide the tribes with a variety of basic services and training, housing, food and supplies, including guns and ammunition for hunting.
Isa-tai's medicine was viewed as being very strong and he was doing his best to incite a war against the whites.
www.texasbeyondhistory.net /redriver   (1368 words)

  
 Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty Pageant
It was 1917 that citizens of Medicine Lodge decided to commemorate the Treaty of Medicine Lodge, signed in 1867.
The Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty re-enactment compresses 300 years of history into two hours of entertainment and education.
The Pageant is an invitation to watch history unfold: the Spanish Discovery with Coronado; Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike come alive on the prairie, and now the natives are unsure of their place in their homelands.
www.peacetreaty.org   (467 words)

  
 Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling Society :: Home
Manuelito was a formidable warrior and though signing peace treaties in 1855, 1861, 1864, and 1868, returned to war each time because the government breached their bargain (treaty).
He was among the signers of the 1867 Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty.
After the treaty, the government withdrew many of their promises, which precipitated revenge in the form of continued raids in southwestern Kansas, southern Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.
www.atsfrr.com /resources/Rhodes   (1303 words)

  
 CHIEF SATANTA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
This Treaty, as were all the treaties with the wasichu, was another pack of lies the wasichu used to try and pacify the Indian while continuing to steal his lands.
It was at this Treaty Council that Chief Satanta became known as the Orator of the Plains.
Chief Satanta and Satank, medicine man and an elder of the Koitsenko warrior society, Crazy Dog society for those not aware, signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty for the Kiowa.
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 Medicine Lodge Peace Treaties   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
While the treaties did not bring immediate peace they made possible the coming of the railroads and eventual settlement.
The site of the council was at the confluence of Medicine river and Elm creek, a little southwest of Medicine Lodge.
In Medicine Lodge there is a commemorative monument on the high school grounds.
skyways.lib.ks.us /history/medicine.html   (171 words)

  
 PBS - THE WEST - Events from 1860 to 1870
The treaty marks the end of the era in which federal policymakers saw the Plains as "one big reservation" to be divided up among various tribes.
Instead, the treaty establishes reservations for each tribe in the western part of present-day Oklahoma and requires them to give up their traditional lands elsewhere.
Under terms of the treaty, the United States agrees to abandon its forts along the Bozeman Trail and grant enormous parts of the Wyoming, Montana and Dakota Territories, including the Black Hills area, to the Lakota people as their exclusive territory.
www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/events/1860_1870.htm   (1509 words)

  
 This site is dedicated to Medicine Lodge and Barber County
Located at the junction of Highways 160 and 281, and joined by the scenic Gyp Hills on the West, Medicine Lodge is not only a historic community, but is also family and business oriented.
It was the duty of the Medicine Lodge and Sun City militia to guard and keep the territory from Caldwell to Dodge City, and south to the Cimarron river, clear of marauding bands of Indians.
The stockade in Medicine Lodge was built by the militia and citizens, and guards were placed.
www.medicinelodge.com   (750 words)

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