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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 1874 1874

Protection of the frontier of Texas

Protest of the General Indian Council of the Indian Territory, organized under the treaties of 1866, to the President and Congress of the United States, protesting against a territorial government being established over the Indians without their consent

Protest of the Indian delegates of the Indian Territory against the establishment by Congress of a territorial government over the Indians, without their consent

Protest of the president, councilors, and people of the Seneca Nation of Indians, made in their national council, against the passage of the bill (H. R. No. 3080) to authorize the Seneca Nation to lease their lands within the Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations, and to confirm existing leases

Remonstrance of the Choctaw delegates

Removal of certain Indians from Wisconsin

Report : Claim of Jordan and McPike

Report : Memorial of A. Wilson

Report : Memorial of D. and D. Sanford

Report : Memorial of the Walnut Grove Gold-Mining Company

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1874

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1874

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 second session of the Forty-third Congress, 1874

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 second session of the Forty-third Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1874

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 second session of the Forty-third Congress, 1874

Report on Allotments of Land to Indians

Report on an Additional Land District in New Mexico

Report on Jurisdiction Over Indian Reservations

Report on Land Grants to the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company

Report on Liability of the U.S. Government to Reimburse Losses at the Hands of Indians

Report on Oklahoma Territory

Report on Osage Indian Lands

Report on Printing of Indian Expenditures

Report on the Creek Orphan Fund

Report on the Mission Indians of California

Report on the Upper and Lower Bands of Sioux

Report : Petition of A. Lasley

Report : Petition of Citizens of New Ulm. Minnesota

Report : Petition of C. Wetle

Report : Petition of F. Crump and W. Williamson

Report : Petition of J. Leflore and J. Harris

Report : Petition of M. Wright

Report : Petition of R. Greeland

Report : Petition of S. Brooks

Report : Petition of S. Stapler

Report upon the reconnaissance of northwestern Wyoming, made in the summer of 1873 by William A. Jones, Captain of Engineers U. S. A.

Resolution authorizing Committee on Territories to sit during recess, for purpose of investigating matters relating to Indian Territory

Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of Morris County, Kansas, in favor of an amendment to the bill for the sale and disposal of the Kansas Indian lands in Morris County, Kansas, so as to make said lands taxable as soon as sold.

Resolution of the Legislature of California in favor of the establishment of an Indian reservation in Siskiyou County.

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking for the re-appraisement of the New York Indian lands in Bourbon County, Kansas

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the immediate payment of certain adjusted claims of citizens of Kansas for Indian depredations.

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the transfer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the War Department

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in reference to the rights of settlers on the Osage lands

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in reference to the sale of Kansas lands

Resolution of the Legislature of Minnesota, asking that government lands in this state to the amount of twenty sections on the Winnebago Indian Reservation in Waseca and Blue Earth Counties, heretofore sold and conveyed by the general government to private parties, be granted to the State of Minnesota

Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, instructing and requesting our Congressional delegation to urge upon Congress the speedy re-imbursement of Henry Warren for losses incurred by reason of the destruction of his wagon-train and other property by the Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne Indians

Resolution of the Legislature of Wisconsin, indorsing the action of the Secretary of the Interior in removing Indians from the State of Wisconsin, and asking that all tribes be removed from the borders thereof

Resolution relative to the removal of the statue of the "Dying Indian" to the Statuary Hall of the House of Representatives

Resolutions of the Legislature of California, relative to the establishment of an Indian reservation in Siskiyou County

Resolutions of the Legislature of California, urging the appointment of a commission to ascertain the amount of property destroyed during the late Modoc War, and to whom it belonged

Sale of Kansas Indian lands

Seneca Indians of New York

Spencer and Mead

Statement of Major J. W. Powell, made before the Committee on Indian Affairs, as to the condition of the Indian tribes west of the Rocky Mountains

Statistics of mines and mining in the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains; being the sixth annual report of Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, and of the salaries and incidental expenses paid at each agency in the Indian service during said period, showing the appropriations from which paid and the number of Indians at each agency

Texas and Pacific Railway Company. (To accompany bill H.R. 3869.) Memorial of the Texas and Pacific Railway Company and the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company

Upper and lower bands of Sioux Indians

Walnut Grove Gold-Mining Company. (To accompany H.R. 3847.) Memorial of J. G. Fell, Edward Hoopes, and Geo. Burnham

War-claims and claims of aliens

Western district of Arkansas.

Submissions from 1875 1875

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872.

Black Hills. Memorial of the Legislature of Dakota, praying that the Black Hills of Dakota be opened for settlement, and the Indian title to the same be extinguished

Cherokee Nation. Memorial of the Delegates of the Cherokee Nation

Contingent fund, Department of the Interior. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of expenditures of the contingent funds of the several bureaus and offices of his department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875

Heirs of James Sinclair

John M. Dorsey and William Shepard

Judicial District of Oklahoma.

Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Addressed to Hon. D. P. Lowe, relative to amount necessary to indemnify certain Indians for lands of theirs erroneously sold

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 8th instant, the report of the commissioners appointed to investigate the affairs of the Osage Indian Agency, together with the evidence taken by the board, and the separate findings of the individual members thereof.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a Senate resolution of February 2, 1875, transmitting information in relation to services rendered by William P. Adair and C. N. Vann, to the Osage Indians.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an estimate of appropriation required for the confederated tribes of the Kaskaskias, &c., in the State of Kansas

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, relative to an estimate of appropriation to pay Osage Indians interest on net avails of lands sold under the Treaty of 1865

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs reporting the amount of expenses incurred in negotiating the treaty with the Ute Indians, under the act of April 23, 1874.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, giving an estimate of the amount of the appropriation required to pay the amount due James W. Terrell, as disbursing agent for paying the North Carolina Cherokee Indians under the act of June 29, 1848.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the support and civilization of the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting petition of citizens of Colfax County, New Mexico, for removal of Jicarilla Apache and Ute Indians to their reservation, to be considered in connection with the treaty, or "agreement," with said Indians presented to Congress, with letter to the Speaker of the House, February 3, 1874

Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting, in compliance with the Act of July 15, 1870, an estimate of appropriation in relation to the duty of the District Attorneys and the Attorney-General of the United States to institute and prosecute suits against the present and former agents of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, calling attention to the provisions of the tenth section of the act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department for the year ending June 30, 1876, and suggesting an amendment thereto so as to include all Indian agents and subagents in its provisions.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of March 19, 1874, information in relation to the number of Indians captured or killed by United States troops during the year 1873.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in relation to an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill referring to the Choctaws

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior. Recommending an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill for Malheur reservation, in Oregon

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill for certain incidental expenses in Oregon

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an amendment to the Indian appropriation bill for subsistence of the Ute Indians in Colorado

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to an appropriation for Creek annuities

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the claim of William P. Lyon & Son for printing one thousand volumes of Choctaw laws

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the estimate of appropriations heretofore submitted to the House for the continuance of the geological survey

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the removal of the Weeminuche Indian Agency to the Ute reservation

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the treaty of February 23, 1867, with certain Indian tribes in Kansas

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an amendment to Indian Appropriation Bill, asking an appropriation to extinguish rights to hunt, under treaty of April 29, 1868, with Sioux Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to the removal of the Pawnee Indians from the State of Nebraska to the Indian Territory, and the sale of their lands in said state.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs giving an estimate of an appropriation required for the education and civilization of the Indians of the Central Superintendency.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a bill to amend the act of June 10, 1872, for the relief of certain Indian tribes in the Northern Superintendency

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed statement of all the expenditures of the contingent funds of his department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill making appropriation for the purchase of certain improvements on the Nez Perce Indian reservation in Idaho

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill providing for the investment of certain funds belonging to the Prairie band of Pottawatomie Indians

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