ALS as president signed “James K. Polk,” one page, 7 x 7.75, no date [circa 1846]. President Polk writes George Bancroft, his acting secretary of war, regarding the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. In part: “I desire to be informed whether the Cherokee commissioners have returned an answer to the lost titles addressed to them by Gen. Marcy. I request that their answers may be transmitted to me…On Saturday last I directed the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to propose a succinct statement of the points—presented for my direction, growing of the Constitution of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek. This was done of consultation with Gen. Marcy. The commission has not yet transmitted to me his statement. Will you call his attention to it.” Matted with a colorized three-quarter-length portrait and framed to an overall size of 20 x 15.5. Intersecting folds (several additional vertical folds), two vertical folds passing through his name, otherwise fine condition.
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, negotiated between the federal government and the Choctaw Indians, was signed in 1830 and gave the Choctaws about 11 million acres of land in what is now Mississippi in exchange for about 15 million acres of land in modern-day Oklahoma. In April 1846, President Polk sent a special message to the US Senate concerning Native American claims surrounding the treaty, undoubtedly an issue to which this correspondence has significant bearing. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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