September 23, 1820
Articles of a convention made on the twenty-third day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, at Camp Council Bluff, on the Missouri river, between Henry Atkinson, brigadier general of United States army, and Benjamin O'Fallon, Indian agent for the tribes on the Missouri, being specially authorized thereto by the Secretary of War, and the undersigned chiefs and headmen of the Maha nation of Indians, duly authorized and empowered by said nation.
ARTICLE 1.
The undersigned chiefs and headmen of the Maha nation of Indians, for themselves, and in behalf of their nation, cede and relinquish to the United States all right, title, interest, and claim which they have, or ever had, to a tract of fifteen miles square of the country around Council Bluff, to be bounded by due east, west, north, and south lines, and so located that the flag-staff in the area of the new cantonment on Council Bluff shall be the centre of the aforesaid tract of fifteen miles square.
ART. 2.
The said Henry Atkinson, brigadier general of United States army, and Benjamin O'Fallon, Indian agent for the tribes on the Missouri, on the part of the United States, hereby stipulate and agree that, in consideration of the relinquishment of title by the Maha nation, as stated in the preceding article, the United States will pay to the Maha nation thirty smooth-bored guns, one nest of brass kettles, sixty-three point Mackinaw blankets, two hundred and twenty-five yards of strouding, two hundred pounds of powder, four hundred pounds of lead, in balls, one thousand flints, forty-eight dozen belt knives, and two hundred and fifty pounds of tobacco, in or before the month of June next, at this place, provided this convention is duly ratified by the Government of the United States.
ART. 3.
The United States grant to the Maha nation the privilege of hunting on such parts of the aforesaid ceded tract as may not be used for military purposes, trading establishments, farming, and range for stock. Done at the place and on the day and year first above written.
H. Atkinson, Brig. Gen. U. S. Army.
B. O'Fallon, U. S. Indian Agent.
[Signed, also, by the chiefs and headmen of the Maha Indians.]
We certify that the foregoing agreement has been faithfully interpreted to the chiefs and headmen who have subscribed to the within articles.
John Dougherty,
U. S. Indian Agent and Interpreter.
Michael Barda,
Interpreter.