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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 1873 1873

Answer of P. P. Pitchlynn, Choctaw Delegate, to the communication of the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the Choctaw net-proceeds claim

Dakota Claims for stores and supplies to volunteers.

Digested summary and alphabetical list of private claims which have been presented to the House of Representatives from the Thirty-second to the Forty-first Congress, inclusive: Exhibiting the action of Congress on each claim, with references to the journals, reports, bills, etc., elucidating its progress

George A. Armes.

Investigation of Indian frauds.

Joint resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, memoralizing Congress for a sufficient grant of lands to supply deficiency of sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections for school purposes, lost to the state by Indian reservations.

Joint resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, praying for extension of time for settlers to enter lands of the Osage Reservation

Kreel & Miller.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, accompanying information called for by the Senate resolution of January 8, 1873, relative to the Modoc and other Indian tribes in Northern California.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a protest of the Governor of the Chickasaw Nation against certain measures providing for the opening of the Indian Territory to white settlement

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, inclosing articles of agreement with the Wichitas and other affiliated tribes, granting them a home in the Indian Territory, concluded in this city October 19, 1872

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for the survey of exterior boundaries of Indian reservations and subdividing portions of the same

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation required for the construction of a wagon-road for the transportation of supplies from Red Lake Crossing, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, to the Red Lake Agency, in Minnesota.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to aid and instruct the Indians of the central superintendency in the arts of civilization.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to defray the expenses connected with the appraisal and sale of certain lands in the State of Nebraska.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to defray the expenses connected with the appraisal and sale of the lands belonging to the Kansas Indians, in the State of Kansas.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to meet indebtedness contracted by the agent for the Arickaree, Gros Ventre, and Mandan Indians, in the northwestern part of Dakota

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to pay the Osage Indians the annual interest at 5 per cent. on the net proceeds of sales of the Osage trust and diminished reserve lands.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for collecting and subsisting Apaches in Arizona and New Mexico for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to certain negotiations with the Ute Indians in Colorado for the extinguishment of a portion of their reservation, made in pursuance of a treaty concluded March 2, 1868

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of Charles Autobees, on account of depredations alleged to have been committed upon his property by Comanche, Arapaho, and Cheyenne Indians.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of Hugo Wedeles, for depredation committed upon his property in February, 1867, by Arapaho Indians.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the condition of the Pi-Ute Indians

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the expenses of removing the Otter Tail band of Pillager Indians to the White Earth Reservation, Minnesota

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to the retention of Kickapoo money as a trust-fund.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required to pay for transportation furnished by the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company to certain Cherokee Indians.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to amend section five of the act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the year ending June 30, 1873.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of an act to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain tribes of Indians in the northern superintendency," approved June 10, 1872.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate for appropriation of $35,000 for the purchase of one township of land in White Earth Reservation, for the use of the Pembina band of Chippewa Indians.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation to defray the expenses connected with the appraisal and sale of the tract of land in the State of Wisconsin set apart for the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation to provide for necessary subsistence, &c., for Kansas Indians.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a petition of a citizen of the Chickasaw country, Indian Territory, praying for a charter to construct and operate a toll-bridge across Red River, on the line between said Chickasaw country and Grayson County, Texas.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting six reports of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico on private land-claims in said territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, accompanying reports of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico on private land-claims Nos. 71 and 72.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, an inventory of all the property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by that department and under its charge

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to a deficiency in the appropriation for the subsistence of the Sioux Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for the relief of the Mississippi Chippewa Indians on the White Earth Reservation.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation of $1,240,000 for the removal of the Great and Little Osage Indians from Kansas, in conformity to law and treaty stipulations.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation required for the removal of the Snake or Pi-Ute Indians to the reservation provided for them on the head-waters of the Malheur River, in the State of Oregon.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation required to remove the Cheyenne River agency from its present location at the mouth of Cheyenne River, on the Missouri River.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to claims for compensation for depredations committed by Kiowa and Arapaho Indians on the 18th of July, 1864.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to House bill 3090, entitled "A bill for the relief of the Alabama, Cooshatta, and Muscogee tribes of Indians in Texas".

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of Christopher Weidner for depredations in October, 1868, by Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of Cyrus M. Cutler, for depredations committed in March, 1867, by Kaw Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of Jose A. Baca for depredations committed in August, 1868, by Kiowa and Comanche Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of M. Desmarais & Co. for depredations committed by Cheyenne Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of Probst and Kirchner for depredations, in 1869, by Navajo Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of Seth E. Ward for compensation on account of depredations committed by Brule and Ogallala Sioux Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of the Walnut Grove Mining Company of Arizona, on account of depredations committed by Apache Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the condition, location, &c., of the Teton-Sioux

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the condition of the Miami Indians, and the rights of certain settlers upon the lands of said Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the restoration to market of certain lands in Michigan

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, respecting numbers, &c., of persons appointed in his department for duty in Washington during the year 1872

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a bill providing for the sale of the Kansas Indian lands in Kansas to actual settlers, and for the disposition of the proceeds of sale

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the sale of Indian lands in the State of Kansas

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill granting authority to use the unexpended balance from appropriations heretofore made for the subsistence of Navajo Indians to meet deficiencies in the appropriations for the present fiscal year for the benefit of said tribe.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill relative to investments of certain funds belonging to the Prairie band of Pottawatomie Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to enable the united bands of Swan Creek and Black River Chippewas and Munsee or Christian-Indians to become citizens of the United States

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to the House for the relief of certain tribes of Indians in the Northern Superintendency.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting agreements, three in number, with the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians for the relinquishment of the reservation provided for them by the treaty of 1867.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a memorial of the Legislature of Dakota, praying that the Pembina band of Chippewa Indians be removed from the lands on the Dakota side of the Red River of the north to the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an act passed by the legislature of the Chickasaw Nation entitled "An act to adopt the negroes of the Chickasaw Nation," &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriations required for the incidental expenses of the Indian service, in various states and territories, for the year ending June 30, 1873

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation to subsist the Modoc Indians during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a special estimate of appropriations required to purchase subsistence for Indian tribes in the Indian Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the draught of a bill for the civilization of Indians of the Central Superintendency.

Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a report of the survey of the Colorado of the west, and its tributaries

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanying a letter addressed to him by the Third Auditor of the Treasury, in reply to statements made by Lieutenant Thomas H. Bradley to the Secretary of War.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to an estimate of an appropriation required to complete the service of fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, and prior years.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the claim against the government known as the Choctaw claim.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement showing the balances of appropriations unexpended on June 30, 1872, the amount appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1873, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to an appropriation for the erection of two posts along the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of First Lieutenant R. H. Pratt, Tenth Cavalry

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of the Territory of Utah for Indian war expenses of the years 1865, 1866, and 1867

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the Montana Indian War claims of 1867

Letter from the Secretary of War, returning the Senate resolution of January 29, 1873, in relation to enlisting a company of Indian scouts to serve in prosecuting the Modoc Indian war.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of January 6, 1873, reports relative to expenses incurred by the Territories of Washington and Oregon in the suppression of Indian hostilities in the year 1856.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the report of Major J. W. Barlow, who accompanied a surveying party of the Northern Pacific Railroad, in relation to Indian interference with that road.

Letter of Thomas Foster, of Minnesota, in relation to the proper management and civilization of the Indian tribes.

Memorial of certain Indians residing in Michigan and Indiana, for relief

Memorial of E. C. Boudinot

Memorial of the Choctaw Nation, in answer to the letter of the Honorable Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter of the Solicitor of the Treasury in relation to the Choctaw claims

Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory. Asking for the division of the present Territory of Dakota, and the erection of an additional territorial organization out of the northern part of the same

Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory, in reference to the Black Hills country serving as a retreat for hostile Indians

Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory, relative to the Pembina band of the Chippewa Indians

Memorial of the Walnut Grove Gold-Mining Company

Message of the President of the United States, with the accompanying documents, transmitted to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-third Congress, 1873

Military posts in Texas.

On Relief of E. Joslyn

Professor Hayden's geological survey of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah

Protest of the Creek and Cherokee delegations against the passage of House bill no. 2635, creating the Territory of Oklahoma.

Report : Claim of J. Pendery

Report : Claim of the Northwest Fur Company

Report : Memorial of Wells, Fargo, and Company

Report of the Commissioner for 1872 and 1873.

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1873.

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, 1873.

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 first session of the Forty-third Congress, 1873.

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