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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 1878 1878

Agatha O'Brien.

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1873

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the year ending June 30, 1874

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing, the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1877.

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1878.

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing, I. Appropriations made during the second 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.

Arrears due Chickasaw Nation

Arrears due Chickasaw Nation.

Arrears due Chickasaw Nation. (To accompany report 354.) Letters from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Hons. A. M. Scales and T. M. Gunter. In relation to arrears due Chickasaw Nation.

Baptist Domestic and Indian Missions

Benjamin Holladay

Boundary line between Colorado and Utah.

Building for National Museum

Caroline Hawley

Charles L. Dahler.

Charles S. Wilder

Claims of citizens of Montana for services in Nez Perces War.

Claims of Kansas

Colonel A. B. Meacham

Confirmation of certain conveyances

Contingent fund of Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting detailed account of the expenditure of the contingent fund of that department

Counsel fees in Osage land suits.

Counsel fees in Osage land suits.

Creek Orphan claim.

Deficiencies in appropriations for 1878, and prior years. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations for the year 1878, and prior years

Delegate in Congress from the Indian Territory. Objections of the Indian delegations to the bill H. R. 2687, and kindred measures in the Congress of the United States, providing for a delegate in Congress from the Indian Territory

D. G. & D. A. Sanford.

Distribution of United States troops. Letter from the Secretary of War, showing the distribution of United States troops

Eastern band of Cherokee Indians

Eastern band of Cherokee Indians

E. C. Boudinot.

Election of a delegate from the Indian Territory.

Election of a delegate from the Indian Territory.

Election of delegate from Indian Territory

Election of delegate from Indian Territory

Elizabeth S. Roberts

Employes in Interior Department who have served in the Military or Naval Service. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a list of all employes of that department who were honorably discharged from the Military or Naval Service for disability arising from sickness or wounds incurred in the line of duty, &c.

Equalization of bounties.

Eugene Leitensdorfer

Extending the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to Indian treaties.

Frances H. Plummer.

Fresh water on Fort Yuma Desert.

Geological and geographical surveys. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting report of Professor Hayden upon geological and geographical surveys.

Geological and geographical surveys. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of Professor Powell in regard to surveys, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives.

Gustav A. Hesselberger.

Indians in Michigan and Indiana. (To accompany bill H. R. 2283.) Memorial of certain Indians residing in Michigan and Indiana, for relief

John M. Dorsey and William F. Shepeard

Josephine Da C. Thomas

Josephine Da C. Thomas.

Land entries by Indians in Michigan. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relating to certain frauds practiced upon Indians making homestead entries in Michigan.

Lands located on military warrants in certain states.

Lands located on military warrants in certain states.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of February 13, 1878, information in relation to the number of persons on the pension-rolls in Arkansas and other states, the payments made thereto, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of April 17, 1878, information in relation to the decisions of that department upon the rights of Indians to impose taxes in the Indian Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 15, 1878, a copy of the report of Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins, in relation to the consolidation of Indian agencies in the Colville country.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in obedience to law, a list of property belonging to the United States in his possession

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in relation to a removal of Kickapoo Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, transmitting a copy of a report of a commission appointed in pursuance of law to appraise certain lands in the Indian Territory lying west of the 96th degree of west longitude.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of December 14, 1877, information in relation to the location of bands of Apache and Ute Indians at Cimarron, N. Mex.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of May 24, 1878, a copy of the memorial of B. F. Overton, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation, praying for a rehearing in the matter of the Chickasaw Nation Permit Law.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, an inventory of property belonging to the United States in the Department of the Interior.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriations for payment of claims originating prior to July 1, 1875, under sections 3687 and 3689, revised statutes.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880

Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating a tabular statement of campaigns, expeditions, and scouts in the Department of Dakota in the third quarter of 1877.

Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating his views in relation to the bill (S. 165) to reimburse the State of Texas for expenses incurred in repelling invasions of Indians and Mexicans.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of letters and a telegram from Col. B. H. Grierson, Tenth Cavalry, objecting to the reinstatement or reappointment officers dismissed from the Tenth Cavalry; also, a copy of the report of the Adjutant-General on the subject.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of letters and a telegram from Col. B. H. Grierson, Tenth Cavalry, objecting to the reinstatement or reappointment officers dismissed from the Tenth Cavalry; also, a copy of the report of the Adjutant-General on the subject.

Lines of communication between Colorado and New Mexico. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting reports on lines of communication between Colorado and New Mexico

Maj. Granville O. Haller.

Memorial of delegates from the Indian Territory, protesting against the passage of the bill to organize the Territory of Oklahoma.

Memorial of the Choctaw Nation, asking for a settlement of their claims arising under the Treaty of 1855.

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of December 10, 1877, information in relation to certain lands ceded to the United States by the confederate bands of the Ute Nation of Indians.

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of December 7, 1877, information in relation to the cost of the late war with the Sioux Indians.

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 30, 1878, information in relation to a survey of lands in the Indian Territory.

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of November 13, 1877, information in relation to the cause and probable cost of the late Nez Perces War.

Military Post in the Black Hills

Military Telegraph in Dakota and Montana

Milton B. Duffield.

Mrs. O. F. Short.

Myron M. Lockwood.

Nehemiah Garrison, assignee of Moses Perkins

On the Case of G. Smith

On the Relief of Capt. Foulk

On the Relief of G. Hesselberger

On the Relief of J. McGregor

On the Relief of J. Richard and J. Brown

On the Relief of Montana Citzens

On the Relief of M. Spencer

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1878

Payments from the sale of Osage Indian lands

Pensions to persons who served in the Mexican and other Wars

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