Treaty with the Wea and Kickapoo, June 4, 1816

The following data is extracted from Indian Treaties, Acts and Agreements.

     Articles of a treaty made and entered into at Fort Harrison, in the Indiana Territory between Benjamin Parke, specially authorized thereto by the president of the United States, of the one part, and the tribes of Indians called the Weas and Kickapoos, by their chiefs and head men, of the other part.
Article I. The Weas and Kickapoos again acknowledge themselves in peace and friendship with the United States.
Article II.The said tribes acknowledge the validity of, and declare their determination to adhere to, the treaty of Greenville, made in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and all subsequent treaties which they have respectively made with the United States.
Article III. The boundary line, surveyed and marked by the United States, of the land on the Wabash and White rivers, ceded in the year eighteen hundred and nine, the said tribes do hereby explicitly recognize and confirm, as having been executed conformably to the several treaties they have made with the United States.
Article IV. The chiefs and warriors of the said tribe of the Kickapoos acknowledge that they have ceded to the United States all that tract of country which lies between the aforesaid boundary line on the north west side of the Wabash-the Wabash, the Vermillion river, and a line to be drawn from the north west corner of the said boundary line, so as to strike the Vermillion river twenty miles in a direct line from its mouth, according to the terms and conditions of the treaty they made with the United States on the ninth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and nine.
     In testimony whereof, the said Benjamin Parke, and the chiefs and head men of the said tribes, have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals, at fort Harrison, in the Indiana territory, the fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen.

B. Parke
Weas:
Mesaupeekaunga, or Gamlan, his x mark
Jacco, his x mark
Kesanguekamya, or Buffalo, his x mark
Chequiha, or Little Eyes, his x mark
Mahquakouonga, or Negro Legs, his x mark
Pequaih, or George, his x mark
Kenokosetah, or Long Body, his x mark
Owl, (a Miami) his x mark
Mahchekeleatah, or Big Man, (a Miami,) his x mark
Kickapoos:
Sheshepah, or Little Duck, his x mark
Kaanehkaka, or Drunkard's Son, his x mark
Shekonah, or Stone, his x mark
Mahquah, or Bear, his x mark
Penashee, or Little Turkey, his x mark
Mehtahkokeah, or Big Tree, his x mark
Mauquasconiah, or Big Tree, his x mark
Keetahtey, or Little Otter, his x mark
Nepiseeah, or Blackberry, his x mark
Pehsquonatah, or Blackberry Flower, his x mark
Tecumthena, or Track in Prairie, his x mark
Done in the presence of:
John L. McCollough, Secretary to the Commission
John T. Chunn, Major, commanding Fort Harrison
Gab. I. Floyd, Lieutenant U. S. Army
Th. McCall, of Vincennes
Henry Gilham, of Vincennes
N. B. Baily, of Vincennes
G. C. Copp,
Michael Brouillet, interpreter, at Fort Harrison
Joseph Barron, sworn interpreter

Source: Indian Treaties, Acts and Agreements

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