Editing Nonintercourse Act (section)

==Other provisions==

===Definition of Indian country===
In addition to regulating relations between Indians living on Indian land and non-Indians, the 1834 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]].

===Trading posts===
One of the most defining aspects of the acts was the establishment of a series of "[[factory (trading post)|factories]]" which were officially licensed [[trading post]]s where Native Americans were to sell their merchandise (particularly [[fur trade|furs]]). The factories, which officially were set up to protect the tribes from unscrupulous private traders, were to be used as leverage to cause the tribes to cede substantial territory in exchange for access to the "factory" as happened with the [[Treaty of Fort Clark]] in which the [[Osage Nation]] exchanged most of [[Missouri]] in order to access [[Fort Osage|Fort Clark]].

===Property claims===
According to U.S. Attorney General [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]]:

{{quote|[T]he United States agree to pay [the Creek Indians] certain specific sums of money, out of which payments there is a reservation of $5,000 to satisfy claims for property taken by individuals of the said nation from the citizens of the United States subsequent to the treaty of Colerain, which has been or may be claimed and established agreeably to the provisions of the act for regulating trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers.<ref>2 U.S. Op. Atty. Gen. 110, 128 (1828).</ref>}}