To the Senate of the United States:
I herewith lay before the Senate, for its constitutional action thereon the following treaties, concluded at "Medicine Lodge Creek," Kansas, between the Indian tribes therein named and the United States, by their commissioners appointed by the act of Congress approved July 20. 1867, entitled "An act to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes," viz:
A treaty with the Kiowa and Comanche tribes, concluded October 21, 1867.
A treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache tribes, concluded October 28, 1867.
A treaty with the Arapahoe and Cheyenne tribes, dated October 28, 1867.
A letter of this date from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting said treaties, is herewith inclosed.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
Andrew Johnson, Special Message Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/202133