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Dr. Anna Lewis,
Choctaw Historian

Articles of Agreement between Edward P. Smith¹ and James M. Piper,Front

(Note: only the first paragraph and the list of signatories are transcribed below.)

Articles of Agreement made and entered into this fifth day of August
A. D. eighteen hundred and seventy-four, by Edward P. Smith, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, for and in behalf of the United States, of the first part, and James M. Piper
of Kansas City Missouri

                                                  Edw P. Smith
SIGNED IN PRESENCE OF -          Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Daniel Geary                              James M. Piper
H. R. Clum as to E.P.S.

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1. Edward Parmelee Smith served as Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1873-1875. For more on Smith, see Handbook of North American Indians, volume 4, p. 685.