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American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

The Serial Set is a compilation of U.S. Congressional publications published by the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives about the bills and resolutions involved in lawmaking. It also includes reports of executive departments, government-funded institutions, and other independent organizations. Documents in the Serial Set are arranged in numeric series chronologically (not topically). This collection offers detailed contemporaneous documentation of political, military, and governmental activities related to indigenous peoples of the continental United States and Alaskan territory during the 19th century. These government documents were scanned from the print collections of the Oklahoma Department of Libraries and the University of Oklahoma Libraries. They were identified using Steven L. Johnson’s bibliography, Guide to American Indian Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899, published by Clearwater Publishing Company in 1977. Permission for use of descriptive subject annotations was granted by ProQuest LLC as successor in title to ownership of this publication. Individuals responsible for creating the database are Marilyn K. Nicely, Retired Law Librarian for Native American Digitization at the University of Oklahoma Donald E. Pray Law Library; Steve Beleu, retired librarian, Oklahoma Department of Libraries; Jeffrey Wilhite, Documents Librarian at the University of Oklahoma Libraries; Elaine B. Bradshaw, Librarian and Digital Repository Manager, University of Oklahoma Donald E. Pray Law Library; and student workers, Sarah K. Capps and Jared Johnson.

Submissions from 1851 1851

Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, praying an appropriation for the payment of expenses incurred by the provisional government of Oregon in the Cayuse War.

Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, praying for the extinguishment of the Indian title and the removal of the Indians from certain portions of that territory; payment of the debt growing out of the recent Indian War, and the debt occasioned by the maintenance of the provisional government; establishment of military posts for the protection of emgrants; donations of land to citizens and emigrants; change in the place for delivering the mails transmitted from New York; construction of roads; purchase of the land held by the Puget Sound Agricultural Society; exploration of the territory; establishment of a branch mint; and the improvement of the mouth of the Columbia River.

Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-second Congress : State of the Union Address, 1851

Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-second Congress : State of the Union Address, Part II, 1851

Message from the President of the United States, to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the Thirty-second Congress : State of the Union Address, Part III, 1851

Military Reserve on the St. Peter's River

Post Road from Fort Smith to San Diego

Report : Claim of the Heirs of J. Bulow, jr.

Report : Claim of W. Hart

Report : Memorial of J. Irwin

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, the report of Lieutenant Whipple's expedition from San Diego to the Colorado

Report on Payment of Troops

Report on the geology of the Lake Superior Land District: by J. W. Foster and J. D. Whitney, United States Geologists

Report : Petition of J. Snow and A. Bangs

Report : Petition of R. Jemison

Report : Petition of S. Floyd

Report : Petition of S. Floyd

Report : Petition of V. Morass

Resolution of the General Assembly of Florida, in reference to losses sustained by citizens of Florida in the Seminole War

Resolutions of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of granting to soldiers and sailors of the last war with Great Britain, and of the Indian Wars, the same quantity of bounty land as was allowed to those who served in the war with Mexico.

Roads -- Minnesota. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the Topographical Bureau, respecting certain roads in the Territory of Minnesota.

Sureties of Samuel H. Bunch

Tennessee volunteers

Submissions from 1852 1852

Additional estimates -- deficiencies Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting additional estimates for deficiencies in that department.

Additional estimates -- Indian service. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting additional estimates for the Indian service, &c.

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Report of the Clerk of the House of Representatives U. S., in compliance with the "Act to authorize the appointment of additional paymasters, and for other purposes," passed July 4, 1836.

Balance due Creek Indians for losses in late war with Great Britain. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report, in explanation of the item estimated for by that department for losses sustained by Creek Indians in the last war with Great Britain

Balances -- Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of balances, &c.

Captains Bush, Price, and Suarez. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 161.)

Cherokees of North Carolina. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting Information as to the amount of money paid William H. Thomas for and on account of the Cherokees of North Carolina.

Chickasaw Indians and Arkansas bonds. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, submitting an estimate of interest on Arkansas bonds to be paid to the Chickasaw Indians

Clerks, etc. -- Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a list of clerks

Contingent fund -- Interior Department. Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statements of the expenditure of the contingent fund of the Department of the Interior

David C. Cash and Giles U. Ellis. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 51)

Elliott McCollock

Estimates of appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1854.

Exploration and survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a reconnoissance of a new route through the Rocky Mountains.

Finances. Annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury.

Heirs of Daniel Landon

Heirs of Semoice. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 152)

Henry Miller. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 178)

Indian accounts and disbursements. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting copies of accounts current, &c., with persons entrusted with the disbursement of money or goods for the benefit of the Indians.

Interest to the State of New Hampshire. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 4)

John H. Piatt -- Heirs of. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 200)

Legal representatives of Gen. James C. Watson. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 136)

Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, communicating the annual report of the Board of Regents

Memorial of the Legislature of Alabama, praying that the citizens of that state may be indemnified for losses sustained during the Indian hostilities in 1836-37

Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota Territory, praying the ratification of certain treaties with the Sioux and Chippewa Indians in that territory

Memorial of the State of Georgia, in behalf of herself and the State of Alabama, praying indemnity for damages committed upon the citizens of those states by the Creek Indians in 1836-'37.

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-second Congress : State of the Union Address, Part I, 1852

Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the Thirty-second Congress : State of the Union Address, Part II, 1852

Omaha Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates for an appropriation to defray the expenses of a party of Omaha Indians

On the Case of A. and J. Kendall

On the Case of C. Seymour

On the Case of J. Hill and Sons

On the Case of L. Thomas and T. Rogers

On the Case of M. and R. Bean

On the Case of Survivors of Gen. Belknap

Oregon territory. Memorial of Columbia Lancaster and W. T. Matlock, presiding officers of The Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Oregon.

Philip Miller. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 55)

Preamble and resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, recommending the payment of a balance due under the treaty between the United States and the Ottawa and Chippewa Nations of Indians, concluded at Washington on the 28th March, 1836

Report : Claim of the Choctaw Indians

Report : Claim of Virginia Soldiers

Report : Memorial of H. Miller

Report : Memorial of J. Roger

Report : Memorial of M. Thompson

Report : Mr. Borland

Report : Mr. Borland

Report : Mr. Broadhead

Report : Mr. Broadhead

Report : Mr. Brodhead

Report : Mr. Dawson

Report : Mr. Downs

Report : Mr. Felch

Report : Mr. Hale

Report : Mr. Pratt

Report : Mr. Rusk

Report : Mr. Sebastian

Report : Mr. Sebastian

Report : Mr. Sebastian

Report : Mr. Seward

Report : Mr. Shields

Report : Mr. Underwood

Report : Mr. Wade

Report of an expedition down the Zuni and Colorado Rivers.

Report of the principal fisheries of the American seas: by Lorenzo Sabine. Parts I-IV.

Report of the Secretaries of the Treasury, of the Interior, of War, of the Navy, and of the Postmaster General, made in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the examination, promotion, classification and compensation of the clerks in the several departments

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to debts contracted by Indian agents in California

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with copies of communications received from the agents of the department in California, in relation to debts contracted by them

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the clerks employed in that department, and the offices belonging thereto

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating the correspondence with persons claiming to be creditors of the Western Cherokees

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the Senate calling for information in relation to an amount due the St. Regis Indians

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to a liquidated balance due the Creek Indians for losses during the last war with Great Britain

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, showing the balances of appropriations for the service of that department on the 1st July, 1850; the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1851; the repayments and transfers, with the amounts applicable to the service, during the same period, and the amounts drawn from the treasury; with such appropriations as have been carried to the surplus fund on the 1st July, 1851

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a reconnoissance of the Gulf of California and the Colorado River by Lieutenant Derby

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a report of the Tulare Valley, made by Lieutenant Derby

Report : Petition of C. Wallace

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