Medicine Lodge Treaty

Treaty of Confederation

Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Tribes

Concluded at "Medicine Lodge Creek" October 21st, 1867.

Articles of a Treaty concluded at the council camp on Medicine Lodge Creek, seventy miles South of Fort Larned, in the State of Kansas on the 21st day of October 1867, by and between the United States of America, represented by its Commissioners duly appointed thereto, to wit: Nathaniel G. Taylor, William S. Harney, C. C. Augur, Alfred S. Terry, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, and J. B. Henderson of the one part and the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians, represented by their Chiefs and Headmen duly authorized and empowered to act for the body of the people of said tribes (the names of said Chiefs and Headmen being hereto subscribed) of the other part, witness:

Whereas, on the twenty first day of October 1867, a treaty of peace was made and entered into at the Council Camp, on Medicine Lodge Creek, seventy miles South of Fort Larned, in the State of Kansas, by and between the United States of America, by its Commissioners, Nathaniel G. Taylor, William S. Harney, C. C. Augur, Alfred H. Terry, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, and J. B. Henderson of the one part, and the Kiowa and Comanche tribes of Indians of the Upper Arkansas by and through their Chiefs and Headmen whose names are subscribed thereto, of the other part, reference being had to said treaty; and Whereas, since the making and signing of said treaty, of a Council held at said Camp, on this day, the Chiefs and Headmen of the Apache Nation or tribe of Indians, express to the Commissioners on the part of the United States as aforesaid, a wish to be confederated with the said Kiowa and Comanche tribes, and to be placed, in every respect, upon an equal footing with said tribes; and Whereas at a Council held at the same place and on the same day, with the Chiefs and Headmen of the said Kiowa and Comanche tribes, they consent to the confederation of said Apache tribe as desired by it, upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth in this supplementary treaty, Now therefore, it is hereby stipulated and agreed by and between the aforesaid Commissioners on the part of the United States, and the Chiefs and Headmen of the Kiowa and Comanche tribes, and, also the Chiefs and Headmen, of the said Apache tribe, as follows, to wit:

Article I. The said Apache tribe of Indians, agree to confederate, and become incorporated, with the said Kiowa and Comanche Indians and to accept as their permanent home, the Reservation described in the aforesaid treaty with said Kiowa and Comanche tribes, concluded, as aforesaid, at their place, and they pledge themselves to make no permanent settlement, at any place, nor on any lands, outside of said reservation.

Article II. The Kiowa & Comanche tribes, on their part, agree that all the benefits and advantages arising from the employment of Physicians, Teachers, Carpenters, Millers, Engineers, Farmers and Blacksmiths agreed to be furnished, under the provisions of their said treaty, together with all the advantages to be derived from the construction of Agency Buildings, Ware houses, Mills, and other structures, and also from the establishment of Schools upon their said reservation, shall be jointly and equally shared and enjoyed by the said Apache Indians, as though they had been originally a part of said tribes; And they further agree, that all other benefits arising from said treaty shall be jointly and equally shared as aforesaid.

Article III. 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 Kiowas and Comamches, shall be shared equally by the Apaches. In all cases where specific articles, of clothing, are agreed to be furnished to the Kiowas & 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. And the United States further agrees, in consideration of the incorporation of the said Apaches, to increase the annual appropriation of money as provided for in Article X, of said treaty, from twenty five thousand, to thirty thousand dollars, and the latter amount shall be annually appropriated, for the period therein named, for the use and benefit of said three tribes, confederated as herein declared; and the clothing and other annuities, which may, from time to time, be furnished to the Apaches, shall be based upon the census of the three tribes, annually to be taken by the Agent, and shall be separately marked, forwarded and delivered, to them, at the Agency House to be built under the provisions of said original treaty. 

Article IV. In consideration of the advantages conferred by this supplementary treaty upon the Apache tribe of Indians, they agree to observe, and to faithfully comply with, all the stipulations and agreements entered into by the Kiowas and Comanches in said original treaty. They agree, in the same manner, to keep the peace towards the whites and all other persons under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to do and perform all other things enjoined upon said tribes by the provisions of said treaty; and they hereby give up and forever relinquish to the United States, all rights, privileges and grants now vested in them or intended to be transferred to them by the treaty between the United States and the Cheyenne and Arapahoe tribes of Indians, concluded at the Camp, on the Little Arkansas River in the State of Kansas, on the 14th day of October 1865, and also by the supplementary treaty concluded at the same place on the 17th day of the same month, between the United States of the one part, and the Cheyenne, Arapahoe & Apache tribes, at the other part.

In testimony of all which the said parties have hereunto set their hands and seals at the place and on the day herein before stated.

N. G. Taylor (seal)
President of Indian Commission  

Wm S Harney
Bvt Maj Gen Commissioner &c

C. C. Augur Bvt Major Gen (seal)

Alfred H. Terry Bvt M Gen & Brig Gen (S.S.)

John B. Sanborn (seal)

Samuel F. Tappan  (seal)

J. B. Henderson (seal)

On the part of the Kiowas:

Satanka, or Sitting Bear his x mark (seal)

Sa-tan-ta, or White Bear his x mark (seal)

Wah-toh-konk, or Black Eagle his x mark (seal)

Ton-a-en-ko, or Kicking Eagle his x mark (seal)

Fish-e-more, or Stinking Saddle his x mark (seal)

Ma-ye-tin, or Woman's Heart his x mark (seal)

Sa-tim-gear, or Stumbling Bear his x mark (seal)

Sa-pa-ga, or One Bear his x mark (seal)

Cor-beau, or The Crow his x mark (seal)

Sa-ta-more, or Bear Lying Down his x mark (seal)

On the part of the Comanches:

Parry-wah-say-men, or Ten Bears his x mark (seal)

Tep-pe-navon, or Painted Lips his x mark (seal)

To-she-wi, or Silver Brooch his x mark (seal)

Cear-chi-neka, or Standing Feather his x mark (seal)

Ho-we-ar, or Gap in the Woods his x mark (seal)

Tir-ha-yah-gua-hip, or Horse's Back his x mark (seal)

Es-a-man-a-ca, or Wolf's Name, his x mark (seal)

Ah-te-es-ta, or Little Horn his x mark (seal)

Pooh-yah-to-yeh-be, or Iron Mountain his x mark (seal)

Sad-dy-yo, or Dog Fat his x mark (seal)

On the part of the Apaches:

Mah-vip-pah, Wolf's Sleeve his x mark  (seal)

Kon-zhon-ta-co, Poor Bear his x mark (seal)

Cho-se-ta, or Bad Back his x mark (seal)

Nah-tan, or Brave Man his x mark (seal)

Ba-zhe-ech, Iron Shirt his x mark (seal)

Til-la-ka, or White Horn his x mark (seal)