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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 1872 1872

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for the salary of the matron of the school at the Pawnee Indian Agency.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to a recent survey of the line dividing the Creek ceded lands, upon which the Sac and Fox and Seminole Indians have reservations

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the disposition of the Ottawa Indian trust-fund bonds.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the Southern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, for the release of land ceded to them by second article of treaty of 28th October, 1867

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to the request of the Cherokee Nation in regard to the application of funds due or that may accrue to that nation from the sale of certain lands.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relative to a survey of the line dividing the Creek ceded lands from the Creek reservation, and recommending legislation to authorize negotiations with the Creek Indians for the cession of a portion of their reservation occupied by friendly Indians.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of an agreement dated September 20, 1872, between the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Sioux Indians and United States Indian agents, in conformity with law

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of articles of convention concluded with the chiefs and head-men of the Shoshone and Bannock tribes of Indians for the relinquishment of a portion of their reservation

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, inclosing papers relating to the removal and subsistence of scattered bands of Chippewa Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting copy of a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to certain selections of land made for members of the Shawnee tribe of Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlan, Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and copies of accompanying papers from the Committee of Friends, in relation to the disposition of portions of Indian reservations in the Northern Superintendency.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to Hon. James Harlman, Chairman of Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in regard to placing at the disposal of the department the balance of an unexpended appropriation for promoting education among Indian tribes.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a Senate resolution of March 8, information in regard to the occupancy of the Indian Territory by unauthorized persons.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an agreement concluded with the Crow Tribe of Indians in accordance with the act of April 23, 1872.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an appropriation for the removal of stray bands of Winnebago Indians from the State of Wisconsin

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to defray the expense of holding a general Indian council in the Indian Territory within the next fiscal year.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to pay certain Indian depredation claims now pending before Congress

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the present difficulties with the Modoc Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to confirming to the Great and Little Osage Indians a reservation in the Indian Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, an account of property belonging to the United States in the possession of that department.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying a report of the Solicitor of the Treasury relative to the claim of the Choctaw Indians, known as the "Net Proceeds Claim."

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the claim of the Choctaw Indians known as the "net proceeds claim"

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874

Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying an engineer report of a reconnaissance of the Yellowstone River in 1871

Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of March 7, 1872, a preliminary report of Lieutenant George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, of the progress of the engineer exploration of the public domain in Nevada and Arizona

Letter from the Secretary of War regarding animals stolen by Indians at San Antonio, Texas.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers showing the necessity for telegraphic communication between the military stations in Arizona.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting papers showing the necessity for telegraphic communication between the military stations in Arizona.

Memorial and accompanying papers of the Legislature of Dakota Territory, relative to the Dakota Indian War of 1862.

Memorial of the chiefs and principal men of the Oneida Indians of Wisconsin, praying to have secured to them the quiet possession of their reservation.

Memorial of the Choctaw Nation of Indians, remonstrating against the establishment of a territorial government over their country

Memorial of William P. Ross, W. P. Adair, and C. N. Vann, in favor of the establishment of a separate court for the Indian Territory.

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 23, 1872, information relative to the recent affray at the court-house in Going Snake, Indian Territory, and recommending the erection of a judicial district in the Indian Territory.

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of April 23, 1872, information relative to the recent affray at the court-house in Going Snake, Indian Territory, and recommending the erection of a judicial district in the Indian Territory.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the commissioners for inquiring into the depredations committed on the Texas frontiers.

Military post, Beaver City, Utah. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to an appropriation for a military post near the town of Beaver City, Utah.

Montana war-claims

Montana War claims. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting to the House of Representatives additional papers pertaining to the investigation into the Montana Indian War claims of 1867

Montana war Report : Claim oflaim. Testimony in relation to Indian waReport : Claim oflaims of the Territory of Montana.

Nez Perce Indian Reservation. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the purchase and improvement of the Nez Perce Indian reservation in the Territory of Idaho

On the Relief of Settlers in Kansas

On the Relief of W. Langford

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress with the annual message of the President, December 2, 1872, preceded by a synoptical list of papers and followed by an alphabetical index of persons and subjects, 1872

Pottawatomie Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for the Pottawatomie Indians

Pottawatomie Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the condition of certain Indians known as Pottawatomies

P. P. Pitchlynn. Memorial of P. P. Pitchlynn, Delegate of the Choctaw Nation, upon the subject of the claim of the Choctaw Nation to the net proceeds under the award of the Senate of the United States.

Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and portions of adjacent territories; being a Fifth Annual Report of progress, by F. V. Hayden, United States Geologist

Presents and provisions for Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the purchase of presents and provisions for Indians during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1871.

Private land-claims in New Mexico.

Protest of Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaw Nations. Protest of Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaw Nations against propositions pending in Congress to frame territorial governments

Protest of Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaw Nations. Protest of Creek, Cherokee, and Choctaw Nations against propositions pending in Congress to frame territorial governments

Removal of Chippewa Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the removal of Chippewa Indians to the reservation provided for them near White Earth Lake

Removal of Osage Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting estimate of appropriation required to defray certain expenses connected with the removal of the Osage Indians

Report : Claim of J. and C. Dailey

Report : Mr. Stevenson

Report of Commissioner of General Land Office, 1872.

Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1872

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1872

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-second Congress, 1872

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-second Congress, 1872

Report on Removal of Indians from the Bitter Root Valley, Montana

Report : Petition of E. Gerry

Report : Petition of F. Kelly

Report : Petition of L. Rose

Report : Petition of the Pottawatomies

Reservation to Red Bear, Chief of Chippewas. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to a reservation made to Red Bear, Chief of the Chippewas, by provisions of ninth article of the treaty of October 2, 1863.

Resolution of the Legislature of Iowa, in favor of sustaining the President of the United States in his present policy for the management of the various Indian tribes, and against the opening of the Indian country for settlement, corporate, or speculative purposes.

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the passage of such laws as will secure to bona-fide settlers upon the Cherokee neutral lands the full benefit of the homestead and pre-emption laws, and also to secure to the state the 16th and 36th sections of land in each township, for school purposes.

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in relation to the removal of settlers from the Indian Territory bordering upon Kansas, and also in favor of a change of boundary of said state.

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, urging that the tract of land known as the Cherokee Strip be opened to entry by actual settlers, and that the Indian title thereto be extinguished.

Resolution of the Legislature of Maine in favor of a faithful observance of treaties made with the Indian tribes

Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, in favor of additional compensation to Richard G. Murphy, for the time he served as Indian agent for the Sioux of Minnesota

Resolution of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in reference to the opening of the Indian Territory for settlemen

Resolutions of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the formation of a new judicial district composed of Southern Kansas and the Indian Territory

Round Valley Indian Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of March 18, 1872, relative to the extension of the Indian reservation known as the Round Valley Indian Reservation, in the State of California

Sale of Chippewa Indian Reservations. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the sale of certain reservations of the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

School property of Ottawa Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the disposition of the school property of the Ottawa Indians in Kansas, under treaty of June 24, 1862

Senecas and other Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to aid the Senecas, Mixed Senecas, and other confederated bands of Indians in the Indian Territory.

Statistics of Mines and Mining in the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains; being the Fourth Annual Report of Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics.

Support of Osage Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for settlement, subsistence, and support of the Osage Indians

Survey of Cherokee strip adjoining Kansas. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, asking for an appropriation for expense of survey of Cherokee strip adjoining Kansas.

Survey of Indian reserves. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for surveying Indian reserves.

Survey of lands in the Indian Territory. (To accompany bill H. R. 1192.) Protest of the Indian delegates to the survey of their lands in the Indian Territory, as proposed in the Indian Appropriation Bill

Survey of the Colorado River of the West. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting report preliminary for continuing the survey of the Colorado of the West and its tributaries, by Professor Powell.

Territory of Oklahoma.

Territory of Oklahoma.

Thomas Hetherington. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the claim of Thomas Hetherington for depredations committed by Cheyenne Indians in 1867.

T. R. Curtis and J. H. Richmond.

Treaty with Nez Perce Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the third article of the treaty of August 13, 1868, with the Nez Perce Indians

Treaty with the Cherokee Nation. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the sixteenth article of the treaty of 19th July, 1866, with the Cherokee Nation of Indians

United States Court in Arkansas. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to holding a term of court for the western district of Arkansas at Okmulgee once in each year.

Various Pacific railroad companies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of March 11, 1872, relative to the various Pacific railroad companies

Wagon-road from Lake Superior to Net Lake Reservation. Memorial of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking for an appropriation to improve and complete a wagon-road from Lake Superior to the Net Lake Indian Reservation, in the State of Minnesota.

Wagon-road in Colorado. Joint memorial of the Legislature of Colorado Territory, for the construction of a wagon-road to White River Indian Agency, in Colorado Territory.

William E. Daugherty. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of William E. Daugherty on account of depredations alleged to have been committed by Sioux Indians.

Winnebago Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the benefit of the Winnebago Indians

Wm. F. and G. M. Dyer. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an account of Wm. F. and G. M. Dyer for beef-cattle furnished the Pi-Ute Indians in Nevada during the winter of 1861-'62.

Submissions from 1873 1873

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1870.

Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1872.

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