[Footnote 672:  Cutler to Dole, June 6, 1863, Indian Office General Files, Creek, 1860-1869.]

[Footnote 673:—­Ibid.]

[Footnote 674:  Coffin to Dole, March 22, 1863.]

[Footnote 675:  Proctor’s letter of July 31, 1863 would indicate that Dole went to the Cherokee Agency before the Sac and Fox.  Proctor was writing from the former place and he said, “Mr. Dole leaves to-day for Kansas ...” [Indian Office General Files, Southern Superintendency, 1863-1864, C 466].]

[Footnote 676:  Indian Office Land Files, Treaties, Box 3, 1864-1866.]

[Footnote 677:  Usher to Dole, March 23, 1864, Ibid.,]

Indians but they rejected it altogether.[678] The Senate amendments were not such as they could conscientiously and honorably submit to and maintain their dignity as a preeminently loyal and semi-independent people.[679] One of the amendments was particularly obnoxious.  It affected the provision that deprived the southern Creeks of all claims upon the old home.[680] Dole’s Creek treaty of 1863 was never ratified.

Other treaties negotiated by Dole were with the Sacs and Foxes of Mississippi,[681] the Osages, the Shawnees,[682]

[Footnote 678:  Its binding force upon them was, however, a subject of discussion afterwards and for many years [Superintendent Byers to Lewis V. Bogy, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, February 7, 1867, Ibid., General Files, Creek, 1860-1869, B 94].]

[Footnote 679:  For an interpretation of the treaty relative to the claims of the loyal Creeks, see Dole to Lane, January 27, 1864 [ibid., Report Book, no. 13, pp. 287-291].  It is interesting to note that a certain Mundy Durant who had been sixty years in the Creek Nation, put in a claim, February 23, 1864, in behalf of the “loyal Africans.”  He asked “that they have guaranteed to them equal rights with the Indians ...”  “All of our boys,” said he, “are in the army and I feel they should be remembered ...” [Ibid., General Files, Creek, 1860-1869, D 362].]

[Footnote 680:  Article IV.  Both the Creeks and the Seminoles, in apprising the Indian Office of the fact that they had organized as a nation, had voiced the idea that the southern Indians had forfeited all their rights “to any part of the property or annuities ...”]

[Footnote 681:  The Sacs and Foxes brought forward a claim against the southern refugees, for the “rent of 204 buildings,” amounting to $14,688.00 [Indian Office Land Files, Southern Superintendency, 1855-1870, Letter of May 14, 1864.  See also Dole to Usher, March 25, 1865, Ibid., also I 952, C 1264, and C 1298, Ibid.,].  Coffin thought the best way to settle their claim was to give them a part of the Creek cession [Coffin to Martin, May 23, 1864, and Martin to Dole, May 26, 1864, Ibid., General Files, Sac and Fox, 1862-1866, M 284].  The Sac and Fox chiefs were willing to submit the case to the arbitrament of Judge James Steele.  Martin was of the opinion that should their treaty, then pending, fail it would be some time before they would consent to make another.  This treaty had been obtained with difficulty, only by Dole’s “extraordinary exertions with the tribe” [Martin to Dole, May 2, 1864, Ibid., M 270].]