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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 7.75 x 10, February 17, 1870. President Grant directs the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “the Proclamation of a Treaty, concluded October 14, 1864, between the United States and the Klamath and Moadoc tribes and Yahooskin band of Snake Indians.” Signed crisply at the conclusion by U. S. Grant. Affixed by the left edge inside a presentation folder, which also contains an original printed copy of the ‘Treaty with the Klamath, etc., 1864.’ In very good to fine condition, with light toning to the edges and folds.
Ratified on July 2, 1866, and proclaimed on the date of this very document, the ‘Treaty with the Klamath, etc., 1864’ relates to the official establishment of the Klamath Indian Reservation in south-central Oregon, which relocated the three Klamath tribes of the Klamath, Modoc, and Yahooskin after they ceded more than 6 million acres of land in 1864. In turn, the U.S. Government designated them a new homeland where they would retain rights to hunt, fish, and gather in safety on the lands ‘in perpetuity’ forever.
At the time of this proclamation, tension existed between the Klamath and the Modoc, which prompted a band of Modoc to leave the reservation in an attempt to return to Northern California. This exodus resulted in the Modoc War of 1872–73, a conflict between a band of 150 Modoc and over 1000 members of the United States Army forces, which ultimately resulted in the Modoc being forcibly returned to Oregon or Indian Territory (pre-statehood Oklahoma).
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