In June, 1835, Colonel Many sent a contingent of soldiers to the upper
Red River country to lend assistance in the signing and execution of the
treaty between the United States and the Caddo Indians. At the Caddo
Indian Agency house, located on a bluff overlooking Bayou Pierre, nine
miles south of the present-day city of Shreveport, was drawn an
agreement with the Indians, dated July 1, 1835:
The Chiefs, Headmen and Warriors of the tribes of the Caddo Nation of
Indians, agree to cede and relinquish to the United States all land
contained in the following boundaries: Bounded on the west by the
North-south line which separates Louisiana and the United States from
the Republic of Mexico and on the west by the Red River in the
Territory of Louisiana and Arkansas.
The Chiefs, Headmen and Warriors agree to relinquish their possession
of the land and agree to move out of the boundaries of the United
States at their own expense, and never to return to live, settle, or
establish themselves as a nation or a community.
In consideration the Caddo Nation will be paid $30,000 in goods and
horses as agreed upon and $10,000 to be paid per annum in money, each
year, for the four years following. Making a whole sum of $80,000,
paid and payable.
In Testimony Whereof, the said Jehiel Brooks, Commissioner, the
Chiefs, Headmen and Warriors of the Caddo Nation, have hereunto set
their hands and affixed their seals.