Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America, to all and singular to whom these presents shall come, greeting : whereas a treaty was made and concluded at the Council ground on the Little Arkansas River, in the State of Kansas, on the seventeenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, by and between John B. Sanborn, William S. Harney, James Steele, William W. Bent, Kit Carson, Thomas Murphy and J.H. Leavenworth, commissioners on the part of the United States, and Kou-zhon-ta-co (Poor Bear), Ba-zhe-ech (Iron Shirt), and other chiefs and headmen, on the part of the Apache Tribe of Indians, Moke-ta-ve-to (Black Kettle), Oh-to-ah-ne-so-to-wheo (Seven Bulls), and other chiefs and headmen, on the part of the Cheyenne Tribe of Indians, and Oh-has-tee (Little Raven), Oh-hah-mah-hah (Storm), and other chiefs and headmen, on the part of the Arrapahoe Tribe of Indians, all of which chiefs and headmen were duly authorized thereto by their respective tribes ...