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Osage at U.S. Factory on the M. De Cigue Augt. (1822)

On 31 August 1822 the Great and Little Osage gave up the 1808 promise of a government store, in return for $2,329.40 in merchandise.

Signed
August 31, 1822
Senate
Ratified
Promises
0 of 1 broken or only partly kept

What happened

On 31 August 1822, at the United States' Factory (a government trading house), Richard Graham, agent of Indian affairs, made an agreement with the chiefs, warriors and head men of the Great and Little Osage.

It deals with one promise from the treaty signed at Fort Clark on 10 November 1808. Article 2 of that treaty said the United States would establish a well-assorted store of goods at that place and keep it up at all seasons, to trade with the Osage on moderate terms for their peltries and furs.

In 1822 the chiefs, warriors and head men, on behalf of their tribes, accepted two thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty cents, paid to them in merchandise from the factory. In exchange they exonerated, released and forever discharged the United States from that obligation. The text says Article 2 of the 1808 treaty is, from the date of this agreement, "abrogated and of no effect."

The paper cedes no land. The treaty was proclaimed on 13 February 1823. It does not say why the store was being given up.

What was promised, and what happened

  • Not known

    Keep a well-assorted store of goods at Fort Clark year-round to trade with the Osage. (1808 Art. 2)

    a well assorted store of goods, for the purpose of bartering with them on moderate terms for their peltries and furs treaties.okstate.edu

Summarized with AI assistance from 4 sources and checked against their words; not yet reviewed by historians or by the nations. Report an error

What the sources say, and how this was checked

Well supported by the sources below.

  1. do exonerate, release, and forever discharge, the United States from the obligation contained in the said second article above mentionedTreaty with the Osage, 1822, Tribal Treaties Database
  2. the aforesaid second article is, from the date hereof, abrogated and of no effectTreaty with the Osage, 1822, Tribal Treaties Database
  3. for and in consideration of two thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and forty centsTreaty with the Osage, 1822, Tribal Treaties Database
  4. a well assorted store of goods, for the purpose of bartering with them on moderate terms for their peltries and fursTreaty with the Osage, 1822, Tribal Treaties Database

Research notes. The reasons for ending the store are not stated in the text. Where exactly the 'M. De Cigue Augt.' factory stood is not clear; the text's place name is garbled. The 1808 treaty is a separate record.

What happened next

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Sources

  1. treaties.okstate.edu/treaties/treaty-with-the-osage-1822-0201reference work
    Aug. 31, 1822. | 7 Stat., 222. / scan: 202 TREATY WITH THE SAUK AND FOXES,. 1822.

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