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Agreement Between the U.S. and the Spokane Indians

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It is further agreed by the parties hereto, that said Indians will be permitted to select their farms and homes on a tract of land to be laid off and surveyed and the boundaries marked in a plain and substantial manner under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, on said Coeur d'Alene Reservation, provided that in laying out said tract of land, the lands taken and occupied by the Indians now on said Coeur d'Alene Reservation shall not be interfered with; and it is further agreed that said Spokane Indians will take lands in severalty under and according to an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the allotments of land in severalty to native Americans on the various reservations and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the native Americans, and for other purposes," which act was passed and approved during the Second Session of the Forty-ninth Congress, and is known as the Allotment act. It is further agreed that the homes and lands selected, as provided for in the foregoing article, are to be and remain the permanent homes of the native Americans, parties hereto, and their children forever.

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