James Buchanan, 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 treaty ground, Camp Stevens, in the Walla-Walla Valley, on the ninth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between Isaac J. [i.e. I.] Stevens, Governor and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory of Washington and Joel Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for Oregon Territory, on the part of the United States, and the hereinafter named chiefs, headmen and delegates of the Walla-Walla, Cayuses, and Umatilla tribes and bands of Indians, occupying lands partly in Washington and partly in Oregon Territory ...