Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10.5, March 31, 1859. President Buchanan directs the Secretary of State "to affix the Seal of the United States to the Treaty between the United States and the Mendawakanton and Wahpakoota bands of the Sioux Indians." Crisply signed at the conclusion by President James Buchanan. In fine condition. Signed on June 19, 1858, ratified on March 9, 1859, and proclaimed by President Buchanan on March 31, 1859, this treaty with the Sioux made provisions for the purchase and sale of tracts of land previously set aside as a reservation by the 1851 Treaty of Mendota. In the treaty referred to by this document, the Mendawakanton and Wahpakoota signed away the northern half of their holdings along the Minnesota River to be sold off to settlers. The remaining reservation was to be allotted to individual Dakota families, who were to subsist on annuity payments and farming. After the Dakota War of 1862, the United States abrogated all of its treaties with the Dakota Sioux, seized the remaining 10-mile-wide strip of reservation lands, and exiled them from the state of Minnesota. Presidential documents dealing with Indian affairs are scarce and highly desirable.
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