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 eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, between Isaac 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 Nez Perce Tribe of Indians occupying lands lying partly in Oregon and partly in Washington Territory, between the Cascade and Bitter Root mountains, on behalf of and duly authorized by said tribe ...