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The Peace Treaty of 1858
Preliminary Articles of a Treaty of Peace and Friendship Between
the United States and the Spokane Notion of Indians
ARTICLE 1. Hostilities shall cease between the United States
and the Spokane Nation of Indians from and after this date.
ARTICLE 2. The chiefs and headmen of the Spokane Indians, for
and in behalf of the whole nation, promise to deliver up to the
United States all property in their possession belonging either
to the government or to individual white persons.
ARTICLE 3. The chiefs and headmen of the Spokane Indians, for
and in behalf of the whole nation, promise and agree to deliver
to the officers in command of the United States troops the men
who commenced the attack upon Lieutenant Colonel Steptoe,
contrary to the orders of their chiefs, and further to deliver
as aforesaid at least one chief and four men with their families
as hostages for their future good conduct.
ARTICLE 4. The chiefs and headmen of the Spokane nation of
Indians promise, for and in behalf of the whole tribe, that all
white persons shall at all times and places pass through their
country unmolested, and further, that no Indians hostile to the
United States shall be allowed to pass through or remain in
their country.
ARTICLE 5. The foregoing conditions being fully complied with
by the Spokane nation, the officer in command of the United
States troops promises that no war shall be made upon the
Spokanes, and further, that the men delivered up, whether as
prisoners or hostages, shall in no wise be injured, and shall,
within the period of one year, be restored to their nation.
ARTICLE 6. It is agreed by both of the aforesaid parties that
this treaty shall also extend to and include the Nez Perces nation
of Indians.
Done at the headquarters of the expedition against the northern
Indians at camp on the Ned-Whauld (or Lahtoo), Washington Territory,
this twenty-third of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight.
G. WRIGHT,
Colonel 9th Infantry,
Commanding United States Troops.
Pohlatkin. Chey-yal-kote.
Spokan Garry. Quoi-quoi-yow.
Skul-hull. In-sko-me-nay.
Moist-turm. Its-che-mon-nee.
Ski-ki-ah-men. It-tem-mee-koh (son of Pohlatkin).
She-luh-ki-its-ze. Schil-cha-hun.
Mol-mol-e-muh Meh-mah-icht-such.
Ki-ah-mene. Be-noit.
Hoh-hoh-mee. So-yar-ole-kim.
Huse-tesh-him-hiah. Se-may-koh-lee.
Nul-shil-she-hil-sote. Sil-so-tee-chee.
Che-lah-him-sko. See-chee-nie.
Huit-sute-tqh. Ko-lim-chin.
Keh-ko. Ho-ho-mish.
Qualt-til-tose-sum. Ski-ime.
Se-ra-min-home. Sko-moh-it-kan.
We-yil-sho. Quoit-quoit-ii-nee.
Che-nee-yah. Pe-daltze.
WITNESSES:
- E. D. Keyes, Captain 3d Artillery
- Wm. N. Grier, Brevet Major United States Army
- R. W. Kirkham, Captain, Assistant Quartermaster
- F. F. Dent, Captain 9th Infantry
- Charles S. Winder, Captain 9th Infantry
- James A. Hardie, Captain 3d Artillery
- A. B. Fleming, lst Lieutenant 9th Infantry
- Jno. F. Randolph, Assistant Surgeon United States Army
- R. O. Tyler, 1st Lieutenant 3d Artillery
- H. B. Lyon, 2d Lieutenant 3d Artillery
- Lawrence Kip, 2d Lieutenant 3d Artillery
- J. Howard, 2d Lieutenant 3d Artillery
The foregoing treaty, together with that made on the 17th with
the Coeur d' Alenes, was forwarded to Army Headquarters,
endorsed by General Clarke as follows:
"The 5th article in each of these treaties is disapproved, in
so far as it accepts a conditional surrender of those Indians
guilty of commencing the attack on the troops.
An unconditional surrender was demanded by me before the troops
were sent into the field; less should not have been accepted
afterwards.
A surrender of the guilty conditioned on their immunity from
punishment is futile.
It is now too late to repair the error; the prisoners are but
hostages and as such will be kept as long as it may be proper to
do so.
The agreement to admit troops and citizens to pass through the
country had better have been a demand than a part of the treaty,
but this matters not much, as we have the substance.
N. S. CLARKE,
Colonel 6th Infantry,
Brevet Brigadier General Commanding."
from Children of the Sun - A History of the Spokane Indians
by David C. Wynecoop, Wellpinit, Washington © 1969
Last Updated
December 21, 2004
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