PIERCE, Franklin. Partly printed document signed ("Franklin Pierce") as President, Washington, D.C., 24 April 1856. 1 page, 4o, tipped to a larger sheet, slight discoloration along folds, otherwise fine. A TREATY WITH THE CHIPEWYAN. Pierce authorizes the Secretary of State to affix the official seal of the United States to "a treaty with the Chipewyan Indians of Sault Ste. Marie." The Chipewyan, a Northern Algonquin tribe, inhabited the Great Lakes region surrounding Sault Ste. Marie; in this remote locale the tribe was able to remain neutral and on friendly terms with the U.S. government. However, a series of treaties starting in 1837 and 1854, 1855 and 1863 gradually ceded the Chipewyan's lands to the United States, restricting the tribe to small reservations in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan.