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Preliminary Articles of a Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between the United States and the Coeur d’Alene Indians
Article 1. Hostilities between the United States and the Coeur d’Alene Indians shall cease from and after this date, September 17, 1858.
Article 2. The chiefs and headmen of the Coeur d’Alene Indians, for and in behalf of the whole nation, agree and promise to surrender to the United States all property in their possession be longing either to the government or to individuals, whether said property was captured or abandoned by the troops of the United States.
Article 3. The chiefs and headmen of the Coeur d’Alene nation agree to surrender to the United States the men who commenced the battle with Lieutenant Colonel Steptoe, contrary to the orders of their chiefs, and also to give at least one chief and four men, with their families, to the officer in command of the troops as hostages for their future good conduct.
Article 4. The chiefs and headmen of the Coeur d’Alene nation promise that all white persons shall travel through their country unmolested, and that no Indians hostile to the United States shall be allowed within the limits of their country.
Article 5. The officer in command of the United States troops, for and in behalf of the government, promise that if the foregoing conditions are fully complied with no war shall be made upon the Coeur d’Alene nation; and further, that the men who are to be surrendered, whether those who commenced the fight with Lieutenant Colonel Steptoe or as hostages for the future good conduct of the Coeur d’Alene nation, shall in no wise be injured, and shall, within one year from the date hereof, be restored to their nation.
Article 6. It is agreed by both of the aforesaid contacting parties that when the foregoing articles shall have been fully complied with, a permanent treaty of peace and friendship shall be made.
Article 7. It is agreed by the chiefs and head men of the Coeur d’Alene nation that this treaty of peace and friendship shall extend also to include the Nez Perce nation of Indians.
Done at the headquarters of the expedition against northern Indians, at the Coeur d’Alene Mission, Washington Territory, this 17th day of September, 1858.
G. Wright, Colonel 9th Infantry, Commanding.
Mil-kar-si, his x mark.
Sal-tize, his x mark.
Vincent, his x mark.
Joseph, his x mark.
Jean Pierre, his x mark.
Pierre Pauline, his x mark.
Louis Margeni, his x mark.
Cypronani, his x mark.
Augustin, his x mark.
Paul, his x mark.
Bonaventure, his x mark.
Cassimere, his x mark.
Bernard, his x mark.
Anthony, his x mark.
Leo, his x mark.
Patricia, his x mark.
Pierre, his x mark.
Jean Pierre, his x mark.
Witnesses:
E. D. Keyes, Captain 30d Artillery.
W. N. Grier, Brevet Major United States Army.
R. W. Kirkham, Captain and Assistant Quarter master.
F. F. Dent, Captain 9th Infantry.
C. S. Winder, Captain 9th Infantry.
J. F. Hammond, Assistant Surgeon United States Army.
Jas. A. Hardie, Captain 3d Artillery.
G. Gibson, 1st Lieutenant 3d Artillery.
R. O. Tyler, 1st Lieutenant 3d Artillery.
Jno. F. Randolph, Assistant Surgeon United States Army.
H. B. Davidson, 1st Lieutenant 1st Dragoons.
W. D. Pender, 2d Lieutenant 1st Dragoons.
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Title record of transfer of land between Andrew Saltese of the Coeur d'Alene Indians and Frederick Post acknowledged on September 16, 1889 and filed on September 19, 1889.
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Description of what happened to the original treaty between the United States and the Coeur d'Alene tribe.
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THE EXPEDITIONS OF COLONELS E. J. STEPTOE AND GEORGE WRIGHT AGAINST THE “ NORTHERN INDIANS " IN 1958 BY B. F. MANRING PUBLISHED BY JOHN W. GRAHAM & CO SPOKANE, WA
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Father Cataldo for long time superintendent of the Jesuit Indian missions in the Rockies and for whom the mission has come to have a popular name of "The Cataldo Mission." "Father Cataldo speaking at Cataldo Mission, September 26, 1926. Indians are early converts of Cataldo or aided in building the mission.
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Bull Mountain. Cataldo Mission, September 26, 1926. Helped build the mission 1845-8.
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Crowd at Cataldo Mission on September 26, 1926 at which time the Indians, now surviving, who aided to build the Mission, together with Father Cataldo, who celebrated mass, were present.
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Edna Gubert, Lerra Louie, Pauline Pichette, Annie Anasta.
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Regis, Chief Wildshoe, Chief Moateling of the Indian men at the mission.
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Coeur d'Alene Indian War Dancers 1900/1920
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The youngest child of Chief lllim-ekum-Spokanee of the powerful Middle Spokanes, Garry was orphaned at 12. With 8 other Indian boys he was sent to the trader's school at Lake Winnipeg, Canada. For six years he studiM English, French, the Episcopal faith and agriculture. Then, dressed as a white man, he returned to his tribe to teach all he had learned . His daughter Nellie remembers his first school as being at Drumheller Springs, near Maple and Euclid , and he spent many hours speaking in the long . house there. Garry made a great effort to change the ways of the Indians, and his hopes were high . But the Spokanes were not content with one wife in place of three or four, and few cared about the plow and hoe. After 2 or 3 years, Garry gave up and donned the garb of his father. But his voice was always heard in the tribal councils, and he was honored and sought after by the chiefs. He traveled a lot, first with the Army, then as a hunter and Indian emissary.
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These crystal Springs near Euclid & Oak flow from Spokane's past. Important to Indians as the only water on the North Hill, Drumheller Springs lies on the trail from the Upper Spokane River to Spokane House. Indian gatherings were held here through the
centuries, and many sacred burial grounds are in the area. Spokane Garry taught here, and the Springs have seen a cavalcade of fur traders, missionaries, miners, soldiers and stock men.
