(SAC AND FOX INDIANS)
$200.00
60078-45
A.D.S. "John Beach", 1p. legal folio, Iowa Territory, Sep. 26, 1842, an invoice for repair of the Sac and Fox Agency's Council House, countersigned by JOHN CHAMBERS. In part: "...For materials required in repairing the Council House at the Sac & Fox Agency for us of the Commissioner in negotiating the treaty of 1842...". John Beach, an Army officer during the Black Hawk War, held the last position as US Indian Agent to the Sac and Fox tribes of Iowa, while John Chambers served as governor of what was then the Iowa Territory. The Sac and Fox Agency endeavored to bring modern farming practices to the Indians, and introduced "mission schools" that enforced Christianity on the tribes and forbade their native tongues. On October 11, 1842, Beach, Chambers, and the agency held a Council Meeting in the repaired meeting house and enacted a treaty gaining most of Iowa. In part: "...The confederated tribes of Sacs and Foxes cede to the United States, forever, all the lands west of the Mississippi river, to which they have any claim or title, or in which they have any interest whatever...". Minor folds and foxing, else fine.