Fort Smith Council

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The Fort Smith Council, September 8–21, 1865, was organized by the United States for all Indian tribes east of the Rockies to meet at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Attendance was mandatory for all the tribes that had signed treaties with the Confederacy—Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Cherokee, Shawnee, Delaware, Wichita, Comanche, Great Osage, Seneca, and Quapaw. The purpose was to notifiy them that, by taking up war against the United States, they had abrogated all their previous treaties and forfeited all their lands and annuities, and to discuss terms of the new treaties. It was also to notify those tribes living in Indian Territory that some of their previous lands were to be turned over to the tribes who were being relocated from their reservations in Kansas.

[edit] See also

Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868

[edit] Sources

• Perry, Dan W. "A Foreordained Commonwealth", Chronicles of Oklahoma 14:1 (March 1936) 22-48 (retrieved August 17, 2006)