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Present location: Neah Bay
Ratified: March 8, 1859
Proclaimed: April 18, 1859
Section from George Gibbs Treaty Map showing Neah Bay and the Makah Reservation. Picture courtesy of the Washington State Historical Society.
Tribes who signed this treaty:

At Neah Bay, in the Territory of Washington

Signed by Isaac I. Stevens, governor and superintendent of Indian affairs for the said Territory and the chiefs, head-men, and delegates of the several villages of the Makah tribe of Indians as listed below:

Neah Waatch
Tsoo-Yess
Osett

Non-Tribal Signers:

M. T. Simmons, Indian agent
George Gibbs, Secretary
B. F. Shaw, Interpreter
C. M. Hitchcock, M. D.
E. S. Fowler
Orrington Cushman
Robt. Davis

Ten Treaties were signed in just 13 months
   
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