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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 1876 1876

Resolution of Senator Maxey

Resolution of the Legislature of California, relative to the transfer of Indian Affairs to War Department

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking the adjustment and settlement of certain claims arising from Indian depredations.

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, asking the right of way through the Indian Territory for two certain lines of railroads.

Samuel J. Crawford.

Seal-fisheries in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the House of Representatives, information relating to the seal-fisheries in Alaska

Settlers in Wind River Valley.

Sioux Indian lands.

Sioux Indians. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House of February 3, a report of Lieutenant-Colonel Merritt, of the Ninth Cavalry, charged by the Secretary of War with the duty of making inquiries into the causes of the exhaustion of the appropriation for the support and subsistence of Sioux Indians for the present fiscal year.

Sioux or Dakota Indians in Minnesota

Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the draught of a bill providing for a modification of the requirements of the fifth article of the treaty of February 19, 1867, with the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of the Sioux Indians, and recommending the same to the consideration of Congress.

Spencer & Mead.

Statement of receipts and disbursements of the United States Government from January 1, 1834, to June 30, 1875.

Statement showing amount of expenditures from appropriation for fulfilling treaty with Sioux, different tribes, including Santee Sioux of Nebraska, for fiscal year ending June 30, 1876.

Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-fourth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period.

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

Stockbridge and Munsee Indians

Supplies for Indians at Red Cloud Agency. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, upon the subject of supplies required at the Red Cloud Agency.

Survey of Black Hills.

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876, 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.

Testimony taken before the Committee on Indian Affairs concerning the management of the Indian Department

Texas frontier troubles.

The Alaska Commercial Company.

The management of the War Department.

Tonkawa Indians at Fort Griffin, Texas. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to House resolution of the 20th instant, a brief and copies of papers touching the number and condition of the Tonkawa Indians at Fort Griffin, Tex.

Transfer of certain Indian trust-funds. Message from the President of the United States, returning, with his objections, the bill (H. R. 1561) for transferring the custody of certain Indian trust-funds from the Secretary of the Interior to the Treasurer of the United States.

Transfer of Indian Bureau.

Treaty with Pottawatomie Indians.

Trust-funds of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Indian Commissioner, inclosing draught of a bill providing for the covering into the Treasury of certain funds therein named.

United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part IV. Report of the Commissioner for 1875-1876

William M. Morrison

William P. Ross. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to a House resolution of the 15th instant, papers and records relating to the complicity of William P. Ross in the alleged Indian-bounty frauds of John W. Wright.

William P. Ross. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th instant, certified copies of papers and records relating to the complicity of William P. Ross in the alleged Indian-bounty frauds of John W. Wright.

Winnebago and Pottawatomie Indians in Wisconsin. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of January 6, 1876, transmitting a statement of the disbursements from the appropriation for the care of stray bands of Winnebagoes and Pottawatomies in Wisconsin prior to 1871.

Winnebago Indians of Nebraska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inviting the attention of Congress to a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 18th instant, recommending legislation for the relief of the Winnebago Indians of Nebraska.

Submissions from 1877 1877

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1876

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1877.

Brothertown Indian Reservation

Certain Indian lands in the State of Kansas

Government exhibits at the Centennial.

John C. Fenscke.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, to the House of Representatives, transmitting estimates of cost of buildings at Lower Brule Agency, Dakota

Letter from the Commissioner of Pensions, addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, in relation to the number of survivors of the Seminole, Black Hawk, and Florida Wars, and of the Mexican War.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of October 22, 1877, a copy of the report of the government directors of the Union Pacific Railroad for the year ending June 30, 1877.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, concerning the destitute condition of the German children captured by Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to the final report of Professor Walter P. Jenney, of explorations in the Black Hills, Dakota, in 1875.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting to the House of Representatives a statement of balances required to be re-appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875, and prior years

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting to the House of Representatives estimates of appropriations required by the various departments for the year ending June 30, 1877, and prior years

Letter from the Secretary of War, accompanying a memorial from citizens of Wrangel, Alaska, asking for the establishment of courts of justice in that territory.

Lieut. George D. Hill.

Memorial of delegates and agents of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations of Indians, remonstrating against the passage of Senate bill no. 107, to enable Indians to become citizens.

Memorial of the Choctaw Nation, asking for the settlement of its claim arising under the Treaty of 1855

Memorial of the Choctaw Nation, asking for the settlement of its claim arising under the Treaty of 1855

Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting reports from the Secretaries of State and of War in reference to Mexican border troubles

Message from the President of the United States, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of War in reference to the increase of cavalry force upon the frontier of Texas

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting to the House of Representatives the report of a Board of Inquiry to examine into the causes of the fire which destroyed a part of the Interior Department building

Military post in Colorado

On the Case of L. McLaughlin

On the Relief of Capt. Adams

On the Relief of J. Pearman

On the Relief of J. Theiren

Osage Indians, fraudulent treaty for sale of lands in Kansas, and payment of attorneys fees

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1877

Petition of B. F. Overton, Governor, and Thomas W. Johnson and John E. Anderson, Commissioners, on behalf of the Chickasaw Nation, to the Congress of the United States

Petition of members of the Chickasaw Nation of Indians, residing in the Choctaw district, praying for an equitable division of the school-funds belonging to said Indians.

Report : Memorial of B. Holladay

Report : Memorial of B. Hollday

Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by said court for the year ending December 3, 1877.

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1877

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1877

Report of the Committee on Indian Affairs, (44th Congress, 2d session,) on the bill (H. R. 3922) to provide for the organization of the Indian Territory

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-fifth Congress : Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1877

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-fifth Congress : Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1877

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-fifth Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1877

Report : Petition of Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea Indians

Report : Petition of T. Walker.

Report : Petition of W. Foulk

Resolution Of Senator Davis

Resolution Of Senator Teller

Resolution of the Legislature of Kansas, in favor of an appropriation out of the Indian-civilization fund to pay attorneys' fees and expenses incurred by settlers on the Osage ceded lands in that state in defending their titles, and for the prosecution of certain suits against certain railroad companies in the United States Courts

Robert C. Buchanan

Sale of lands in the Territory of Alaska

Samuel B. Hanway.

Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-fifth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased, with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the second session of the Forty-fourth Congress. II. Offices created, and the salaries thereof. III. The offices the salaries of which have been increased with the amount of such increase, during the same period

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, 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

Testimony taken by the Committee on Military Affairs in relation to the Texas border troubles.

Texas and Pacific Railroad.

Texas and Pacific Railroad.

The Creek Orphan-Fund

The Territory of Oklahoma.

Submissions from 1878 1878

A certain private land-claim in the Territory of New Mexico.

Additional Clerical Services

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