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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 1875 1875

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a bill to provide for the consolidation of certain bands or tribes of Indians in Washington Territory, and for the sale of certain reservations in said territory, and for other purposes

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a draught of a proposed bill to provide for the sale of a portion of the Fond du Lac Indian reservation in Minnesota, and for other purposes

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an act of the Cherokee Legislature authorizing a loan to be negotiated for their benefit (subsistence) from the United States

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the Indian service in California

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the Indian service in New Mexico

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the Indian service in Oregon

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation for the subsistence and support of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Apache, Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Indians in the Indian Territory

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation required for the Indian service in Colorado

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriations required to meet liabilities contracted on account of the Indian service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1874, and prior years

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriations to pay certain members of the Kickapoo tribe of Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an estimate of appropriation to pay balance due James W. Terrell, as disbursing agent of the Treasury Department to make payments to North Carolina Cherokee Indians

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

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of the deficiencies in appropriations required by the various departments to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, and prior years

Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying a copy of a letter of the Commanding General, Department of the Columbia, and a copy of the decision of the Judge of the District Court for the District of Oregon, in the case of John A. Carr

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of the Roman Catholic mission known as the Mission of Saint James to the military reservation at Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a communication from Capt. J. B. Campbell, in relation to the illicit traffic in liquor in Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 23, 1875, a report of the expedition to the Black Hills, under command of Bvt. Maj. Gen. George A. Custer.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports of the Quartermaster-General and Commissary-General of Subsistence, giving in detail the costs to those Departments of the Modoc War

Memorial of citizens of the Cherokee Nation, remonstrating against the establishment of a territorial government over them.

Memorial of citizens of the Chickasaw Nation, remonstrating against the organization of a territorial government for the Indian Territory.

Memorial of citizens of the Creek Nation, remonstrating against the establishment of a territorial government for the Indian Territory.

Memorial of members of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, praying for the appointment of a commission to inquire into alleged irregularities officers and agents intrusted with the management of certain funds belonging to that nation

Memorial of Pottawatomie Indians, praying payment, as provided by treaty, for depredations committed upon their reservation in Kansas

Memorial of P. P. Pitchlynn, Choctaw delegate, accompanying a memorial of the Choctaw Council, asking payment of the award made to the Choctaw Nation March 9, 1859.

Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking aid for the construction of a military wagon-road between Ashland and Hot Springs, in that state.

Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking compensation for spoliations committed by the Modoc Indians.

Memorial of the Legislature of Oregon, asking the passage of an act to extinguish the title to the Umatilla Indian Reservation.

Message on the Black Hills Country

Military Wagon-Road in Nebraska

Muddy or Moapa Indian Reservation. Resolution of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, asking the passage of a resolution requesting the President to rescind Executive Order of March 12, 1873, setting apart a large quantity of agricultural land in Lincoln County, in the State of Nevada, for an Indian reservation, known as the Muddy or Moapa Indian reservation

Oherokee Indian Lands. Joint Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, praying for such legislation as may enable persons entitled thereto to purchase certain lands under the seventeenth article of the Treaty of July 19, 1866, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 6, 1875

Pawnee Indian lands in Nebraska.

Pottawatomie Indians of Kansas

Protest of the Osage Nation of Indians, against the establishment by Congress of a territorial government of the United States over the Indian nations

Railroad from Yankton to the national park. Memorial of the Legislature of Dakota, asking for a grant of land to aid in the construction of a railroad from Yankton, in Dakota, to the national park

Report : Mr. Clayton

Report : Mr. Ingalls

Report : Mr. Oglesby

Report : Mr. Pratt

Report : Mr. Washburn

Report : Mr. Wright

Report of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1873-4 and 1874-5.

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-fourth Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1875

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, an inventory of property belonging to the United States in the Department of the Interior December 1, 1875.

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1875

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 first session of the Forty-fourth Congress, 1875

Resolution for appointment of committee to visit Indian Territory during recess of Senate [at end of volume]

Resolution : Mr. Ingalls

Resolution of a council of the Seneca Nation of New York Indians, asking for amendment of the act of February 19, 1875, relating to the survey and leasing of certain lands on their reservation

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking a grant of sixty-nine sections of public lands to that state for school purposes, in lieu of the Cherokee neutral lands.

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of the establishment of a United States district court for the Indian Territory.

Ruth Ellen Grelaud

Sarah B. Howe and Mary Cranston

Statistics of mines and mining in the states and territories west of the Rocky Mountains; Being the Seventh Annual Report of Rossiter W. Raymond, United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics.

Sundry civil appropriation bill.

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, 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 Pacific Railroad. Statements of Mr. Thomas A. Scott and Judge Baker, before the House Committee on the Pacific Railroad

The law of claims against governments, including the mode of adjusting them and the procedure adopted in their investigation.

Transfer of Indian trust-funds. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending the transfer of certain funds now held by him, for the benefit of Indian tribes, to the custody of the Treasurer of the United States

Transfer of Indian trust-funds. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending the transfer of certain Indian trust-funds from his custody to that of the Treasurer of the United States

Western Judicial District of Arkansas. Letter from the Attorney-General, relative to claims arising from expenditures of the marshal's office of the western Judicial District of Arkansas.

Submissions from 1876 1876

A. B. Greenwood

Accounts of the Treasury Dept

Alaska seal-fisheries. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a copy of the report of Lieut. Washburn Maynard, United States Navy, on the subject of the Alaska seal-fisheries

Amending pension-laws

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1875.

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1876

Benjamin F. Beveridge.

Brothertown Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin

Catharine and Sophia Germain. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, presenting a further communication from the War Department upon the subject of the destitute condition of Catharine and Sophia Germain, two Cheyenne captives

C. C. Hutchinson. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to House resolution of the 21st ultimo, report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the defalcation of C. C. Hutchinson, late United States Agent for the Ottawa Indians.

Celia C. Short.

Choctaw Indians.

Col. W. H. Emory.

Consolidation of Miami Indians with other tribes. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, upon the subject of the consolidation of the Miami Indians of Kansas with the confederated bands of Peoria, Piankeshaw, Kaskaskia, and Wea Indians, in Indian Territory.

Deficiencies in the various departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required by the various departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, and prior years.

Eastern band of Cherokee Indians.

Expenditures of Board of Indian Commissioners. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to House resolution of the 6th of January, a supplemental report from the Secretary of the Interior, explaining a clerical error in that portion of the statement of the Indian Office relating to expenditures of the Board of Indian Commissioners.

Fees paid United States attorneys

Floyd C. Babcock.

George A. Armes

Heirs of William Stevens

Improvement of the Oconto River

Indian agents. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to a House resolution of the 6th ultimo, a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs respecting certain Indian agents.

Indian depredation claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in reply to resolution of the 15th instant in relation to claims on account of Indian depredations.

Indian depredations in New Mexico.

Indian hostilities in Oregon and California

Interpreter at Klamath Agency, Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, asking for an interpreter for Snake Indians at Klamath Agency, Oregon.

James B. Sinclair

John B. Chapman

John H. Pickering.

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