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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 1870 1870

Choctaw Indian claim. Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of an opinion given by the Attorney General of the United States upon the claim of the Choctaw Indians to the issue of United States bands to the amount of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars

Claim of Black Beaver, a Delaware Indian. Letter from the Secretary of War in relation to the claim of Black Beaver, a Delaware Indian

Claims of Delaware Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting an abstract of a report of the United States Indian Agent upon claims for stock stolen from the Delaware Indians since 1854, provided for in Treaty of July 4, 1866, with said tribe

Claims of Kansas Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting copy of report made by commissioners appointed under the provisions of the twelfth article of Treaty of 23d February, 1867, with the Senecas, Mixed Senecas and Shawnees, and Quapaw tribes of Indians in Kansas, to investigate the claims of those Indians

Claims of Pottawatomie Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting the report of the Commissioners appointed to examine the claims of the Pottawatomie Indians, provided by the Treaty of August 7, 1868

Claims of the State of Kansas. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 112.)

Consolidation of Indian Tribes

Delaware Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior for appropriations to carry out treaty stipulations with Delaware Indians

Difficulties with Indian tribes. Message from the President of the United States in answer to a resolution of the House of the 7th ultimo, asking for information relative to difficulties with various tribes of Indians.

Dwight J. McCann.

Education of Indians of Central Superintendency. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to an appropriation required to carry on the work of instructing and aiding the Indians of the Central Superintendency, in the arts of civilization and self support

Efforts to educate and civilize Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in answer to a resolution of the House of March 24, 1870, in relation to the efforts that have been made by the government to educate and civilize the Indian tribes within the limits of the United States

Elias C. Boudinot

Encroachments upon Osage Indian lands. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in relations to the encroachment of white settlers upon the lands of the Osage Indians in Kansas

Establishment of Indian tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting letter from the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs, relative to the location and establishment of the Kiowas, Comanches, and Apache Indians

Estimates for Sisseton, Wahpeton, and other Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting estimates of appropriations for Sisseton, Wahpeton, Santee Sioux Indians, at Lac Traverse and Devil's Lake, Dakota

Expedition against Piegan Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in answer to the resolution of the House of March 4, 1870, in relation to the late expedition against the Piegan Indians

Expedition Against Piegan Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to the resolution of the House of March 3, 1870, transmitting the report of Brevet Colonel Baker, United States Army, upon the late expedition against the Piegan Indians, in Montana

Expenses for Troops in Montana Territory

Expenses of Indian delegations to Washington. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior submitting Joint resolution to enable the Department to use, subsequent to January 1, 1871, the balance of appropriation for defraying expenses of Indian delegations to Washington

Flathead Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the purchase of mills and construction of buildings for the benefit of the Flathead Indians, to replace those destroyed by fire

Fur-seal fisheries of Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in answer to a resolution of the House, of February 9, 1870, transmitting a copy of a portion of Vincent Colyer's report relating to the fur-seal fisheries of Alaska

Fur seal fisheries of Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury in answer to a resolution of the House, transmitting a report of the special agent of Alaska upon the fur seal fisheries of that territory

Imposition of Tax on Cattle by Cherokee Nation

Indian affairs in Oregon. Letter from the acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs in answer to a resolution of the House of February 15, in relation to the report of the Indian Superintendent upon Indian affairs in Oregon

Indian depredations in Texas. Memorial of three hundred and fifty citizens of the north-western frontier of Texas relative to Indian depredations, and prayer for relief.

Indian depredations. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 774.) Papers accompanying bill for commission to investigate claims for Indian depredations

Indian orphan accounts. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting estimate of appropriation for expenses of settlement of Indian orphan accounts.

Indian reservation in San Diego County, Cal. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior in answer to a resolution of the House of May 24, 1870, in relation to establishing an Indian reservation in San Diego County, California

Jane Allen Birckhead

John E. Tappan. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior transmitting accounts of John E. Tappan for goods given to Kiowa Indians, for delivery of white captives held by them in 1868

Kansas Claims. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 2176.)

Kansas claims. (To accompany H.R. 112.) Papers relative to the claim of the State of Kansas for claims against the government.

Lands-lake traverse reservation. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota asking that all Indians not authorized by the Treaty of 1862, who are on Lake Traverse reservation, be removed to their proper reservation, and to prevent all Indians not authorized from being harbored or permitted to remain on the lands of the said Lake Traverse reservation.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872

Letter of the acting Secretary of the Interior communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, a copy of a letter addressed by the Department of the Interior to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, in relation to the right of the State of Kansas to certain lands sold to the United States by the Osage Indians under the treaty of September 29, 1865

Letter of the Cherokee delegation of Indians transmitting an address of the Grand International Council of Indians inhabiting the Indian Territory, adopted on the 4th instant, asking a strict observance of treaty stipulations on the part of the United States.

Letter of the Secretary of the Interior communicating an estimate of funds required to defray the necessary expenses of a general council of certain Indians in the Indian territory, as provided by treaties with the Cherokees; Creeks, Seminoles, Choetaws, and Chickasaws.

Letter of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, an inventory of the property belonging to the United States in the Department of the Interior, December 1, 1870.

Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating amendments to the Cherokee Treaty concluded July 9, 1868.

Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to the Cherokee Treaty pending before the Senate, and the claim of the Cherokees to territory west of the one hundredth meridian.

Letter of the Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate communicating a statement of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to all the Indian tribes within the bounds of the United States.

Letter of the Secretary of the Treasury communicating, in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of June 29, 1870, information relative to the settlement of the claim of the legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased, for the use and destruction of property in the Creek Indian War

Letter of the Secretary of War, communicating in compliance with the resolution of the Senate of June 13, 1870, a copy of the report of Lientenant Colonel Samuel B. Holabird, of a reconnoissance made by him in the Department of Dakota, in 1869.

Loyal Indians and freedmen of the Creek Nation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior asking for an appropriation for the payment of losses sustained by soldiers who enlisted in the Federal Army, and loyal refugee Indians and freedmen of the Creek Nation, during the rebellion.

Lucy A. Smith. (To accompany H. Res. no. 343.)

Management of Indians in British America. Report on the management of the Indians in British North America by the British Government.

Martha A. Estill

Memorial of a committee on behalf of the colored people of the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes of Indians, representing their grievances, and praying the adoption of such measures as will secure to them equal rights and privileges with white citizens.

Memorial of delegates of the Creek Nation of Indians remonstrating against the organization of a territorial government for the Indian Territory.

Memorial of members of Black Bob's band of Shawnee Indians, against any attempt to force their people to break up their tribal organization, and against a division of their lands.

Memorial of the Choctaw nation of Indians remonstrating against the enactment into laws of the following bills, now under consideration in the House of Representatives, entitled "A bill to provide for the consolidation of the Indian tribes, and to organize a system of government in the Indian Territory;" and "A bill to incorporate the Kansas, Indian Territory and Gulf Railway Company, and to enable the Missouri River, Fort Scott, and Gulf and the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Companies to unite upon and construct a single track through the Indian Territory and to reach the Gulf.".

Memorial of the delegates of the Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw Nations of Indians, remonstrating against the passage of the bill (S. 679) to organize the Territory of Oklahoma, consolidate the Indian tribes under a territorial government, and carry out the provisions of the Treaties of 1866 with certain Indian tribes.

Memorial of the Legislative Assembly, Territory of New Mexico, in favor of locating the reservation stipulated by the treaty with the Utah Indians in the region of the San Juan River, and remonstrating against its location elsewhere in said territory.

Memorial of the Legislature of Wisconsin in favor of the removal of certain bands of Indians from that state.

Memorial of the principal chief and delegates of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, protesting against the passage of the bill (S. 631) "to provide for carrying into effect the provisions of a treaty concluded between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians July 19, 1866.".

Memorial of the principal chief and delegates of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, remonstrating against a territorial form of government, legislative jurisdiction of Cong., the abrogation of existing treaties and the burden of government taxation without representation, and in favor of the payment by the United States of all just obligations to said nation.

Message of the President of the United States and accompanying documents to the two Houses of Congress at the commencement of the third session of the Forty-first Congress, 1870

Message of the President of the United States, calling the attention of Congress to the necessity of the passage of certain measures before the adjournment of the session

Message of the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1869, information relating to the presence of the honorable William McDougall at Pembina, in Dakota Territory, and the opposition by the inhabitants of Selkirk settlement to his assumption of the office of Governor of the Northwest Territory.

Mexico to fulfill treaty stipulations.

Military post near Pembina. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota relative to an appropriation for the establishment of a military post upon the northern boundary, at or near Pembina.

Minnesota State University. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 253.).

Motion of Mr. Thurman

Mr. Harlan : Report

Mr. Willey : Report

Navajo Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior submitting Joint resolution to render an appropriation of $75,000 available for feeding Navajo Indians

Number of Indians in various tribes. Letter from the acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs in answer to the resolution of the House of February 2, 1870, in relation to the number of Indians in each of the various tribes named in the Book of Estimates furnished Congress

On the Relief of Jordan and McPike

Oregon Volunteers

Outrages committed by Indians on western and southwestern frontiers. (To accompany H. Res. no. 288.).

Piegan Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War in answer to a resolution of the House, of March 3, 1870, in relation to the late expedition against the Piegan Indians, in the Territory of Montana

Removal of Indians from Minnesota. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota relative to the removal of Indians from the frontier of said state.

Report : Mr. Howe

Report : Mr. Tipton

Report of Commissioner of General Land Office, 1870.

Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating a statement of all the judgments rendered by said court during the year ending December 5, 1870.

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1870

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress, 1870.

Report of the Secretary of War, being part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the third session of the Forty-first Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1870

Report on Payments Due the Pottawatomies

Report on the Effect of the 14th Amendment Upon Indian Tribes

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the passage of a law to extinguish the title of the Indians to the Black Bob Shawnee Reservation.

Resolution of the Legislature of Texas asking that measures be taken to prevent the Republic of Mexico from harboring hostile bands of Indians depredating the southwestern frontier of that state.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of increased protection on the frontier of that state against depredations by the Indians, and against any further reduction of the Army.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the appointment of a commission to investigate the claims of all persons who have lost property or sustained damages by reason of depredations committed since the first day of January, 1864, by any of the Indian tribes or members thereof with whom peace conferences have been held or may hereafter be held by the commission appointed under the act to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the passage of a bill providing for the payment of stock and other property stolen or destroyed by the Osage, Kaw, and other Indians on the border of Kansas.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the removal of all Indians who have not become citizens, from the limits of that state to special reservations, and the extinguishment of their right of possession to all lands within that state, that the same may be granted to aid in the construction of railroads, and in favor of a grant of lands to aid in the construction of railroads in the Indian territory.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas in favor of the speedy adjustment and payment of the claims of citizens of that state for services rendered, transportation, forage, subsistence, and property lost in action under Major General Curtis, in repelling the invasion of General Price, commanding the Confederate Army, and the Indian expedition in July and August, 1864.

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas remonstrating against the ratification of the treaty for the sale of the Kaw Indian Reserve.

Sale of Indian Lands in Kansas

S. E. Ward. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior recommending an appropriation to pay a debt due to S. E. Ward for goods furnished Indians at Fort Laramie by order of Indian Peace Commission

Statistics of mines and mining in the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains

Stray bands of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to the removal of stray bands of Pottawatomie and Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin.

Survey of Indian reserves. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with estimate of appropriations required for surveying Indian reserves, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871, &c

Territorial government for Indian tribes. Resolution directing the Committee on the Territories, to inquire into the expediency of establishing a territorial government over certain Indian tribes

The Choctaw Indians

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