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A TREATY OF PEACE, FRIENDSHIP AND MUTUAL ASSISTANCE
ARTICLE I.

The Indian tribes of the United States, signatory to this treaty, solemnly contract one with the other that all offences or acts of hostility by any one of the contracting parties, against the other be mutually forgiven, and buried in the depth of oblivion, never more to be had in remembrance. 
ARTICLE II.
That a perpetual peace and friendship shall from henceforth take place and subsist among the contracting parties, through all succeeding generations; and if any of the parties is engages in a struggle for the protection of its rights, liberties, or property, then the other parties shall come come to its assistance in due proportion to their abilities, till their adversaries are brought to reasonable terms of accommodation; and that if any of them shall discover any hostile designs forming against the other, they shall give the earliest notice thereof, that timely measures may be taken to prevent their ill effect.
ARTICLE III. 
Whereas the enemies of the Indian have endeavored, by every artifice in their power, to spread abroad the opinion that Indians are incapable of, or uninterested in maintaining the institution of self-government, therewith the more easily to destroy those tribal councils, courts, and ordinances, whether surviving from ancient days or newly established, that now protect Indians against exploitation, now, therefore, to obviate any such opinion and to counter any such attack, each of the contracting parties undertakes to assist, by any path that is open, including voluntary financial contribution, in the defeat of all encroachments upon the Indians' rights of self government. 
ARTICLE IV.
Whereas the enemies of the Indian have likewise endeavored, for many generations, to spread abroad the opinion that Indians are shiftless wanderers incapable of wisely managing and developing, or uninterested in maintaining, their lands and resources, held, tribally or individually, under aboriginal tenure or under treaty, statue, or executive order, the purpose of such propaganda being to render easier schemes for separating Indians from their possessions in the name of progress, now, therefore, to obviate any such opinion and to counter any such attack, each of the contracting parties undertakes to assist by any path that is open, in the defeat of all encroachments unpin the Indians' rights of property.
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