The Spokane Tribe's Bargain: Timber Revenue for a Forest Reserve
At the agency in Miles, tribal members agreed to set aside unallotted mountain land as a forest reserve and to open Walker's Prairie to homesteaders—if the government paid $5 an acre.
“The Indians agreed that all the mountainous land remaining unallotted on the reservation shall be used for the formation of a forest reserve, provided that they shall receive for a period of 25 years all the revenue derived from the sale of timber.”