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JACKSON, ANDREW, President. Partly printed document signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, Washington, D.C., 15 February 1837. 1 page, 4to, 252 x 201 mm. (10 x 7 7/8 in.), integral blank.
JACKSON AUTHORIZES A TREATY WITH THE SIOUX, SAUK, FOX AND OTHER TRIBES
Jackson had pursued the bloody punitive expeditions in the First Seminole War (1817-1818) without Congressional authority, and as President supported an aggressive policy of Indian removal in the wake of the Black Hawk War. At the date of this document the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was at its height. Here, Jackson issues a Presidential order to the Secretary of State (John Forsyth of Georgia) to affix the Seal of the United States to "the Treaties between the United States and the following Indian Tribes, viz: the Menomonie, the Sac [Sauk] and Fox, the Sioux of the Wa-ha-shaw's tribe, the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri, (residing west of the State of Missouri,) the Otoes, Missouries, Omahaws, & Yankton & Santee bands of the Sioux dated this day..."
JACKSON AUTHORIZES A TREATY WITH THE SIOUX, SAUK, FOX AND OTHER TRIBES
Jackson had pursued the bloody punitive expeditions in the First Seminole War (1817-1818) without Congressional authority, and as President supported an aggressive policy of Indian removal in the wake of the Black Hawk War. At the date of this document the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) was at its height. Here, Jackson issues a Presidential order to the Secretary of State (John Forsyth of Georgia) to affix the Seal of the United States to "the Treaties between the United States and the following Indian Tribes, viz: the Menomonie, the Sac [Sauk] and Fox, the Sioux of the Wa-ha-shaw's tribe, the Sacs and Foxes of the Missouri, (residing west of the State of Missouri,) the Otoes, Missouries, Omahaws, & Yankton & Santee bands of the Sioux dated this day..."