The Indian Intercourse Acts were several acts passed by the United States Congress regulating commerce between American Indians and non-Indians and restricting travel by non-Indians onto Indian land. The first of these acts, An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse With the Indian Tribes, was passed July 22, 1790. The acts generally expired and were renewed every two years until March 30, 1802, when a permanent act was passed. On June 30, 1834, Congress passed the final Indian Intercourse Act. In addition to regulating relations between Indians living on Indian land and non-Indians, this final act identified an area known as "Indian country". This land was described as being "…all that part of the United States west of the Mississippi and not within the states of Missouri and Louisiana, or the territory of Arkansas…" This is the land that became known as Indian Territory. Seal of the U.S. Congress. ... An Aani (Atsina) named Assiniboin Boy. ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... 1790 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in leap years). ... --69. ... June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Indian Territory in 1836 Indian Territory in 1891 Indian Country redirects here. ...
The IndianIntercourseActs were several acts passed by the United States Congress regulating commerce between American Indians and non-Indians and restricting travel by non-Indians onto Indian land.
The acts generally expired and were renewed every two years until March 30, 1802, when a permanent act was passed.
This land was described as being "…all that part of the United States west of the Mississippi and not within the states of Missouri and Louisiana, or the territory of Arkansas…" This is the land that became known as Indian Territory.
Laws were adopted by the Indians in council to prevent the introduction and sale of whisky in their country; and in 1849 a petition was circulated and signed by many people praying the Texas legislature to prevent the sale of whisky by citizens of that state to members of the Choctaw tribe.
An important Indian council in the summer of 1843 at Tahlequah, the capital of the Cherokee Nation, was attended by representatives of eighteen western tribes of Indians.
Congress provided for this in an act that permitted the admission to the Union of a new state to be formed of Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory combined, with a number of conditions, including a provision that the constitution should prohibit for twenty-one years the introduction of liquor into the new state.
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