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 Fort Sully, in the Territory of Dakota, on the twenty-eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, by and between Newton Edmunds, Edward B. Taylor, Major General S.R. Curtis, Brigadier General H.H. Sibley, Henry W. Reed, and Orrin Guernsey, commissioners on the part of the United States, and Na-su-la-tan-ka (Big Head), Na-pa-tan-ka (Big Hand), and other chiefs and headmen of the Upper Yanktonais Band of Dakota or Sioux Indians, on the part of said band of Indians ...