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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

Petition of the delegates of the Creek Nation, with reference to the awards made to those Creeks who enlisted in the Federal Army, loyal refugees and freedmen, asking early action of Congress upon that subject.

Pottawatomie Indian Treaty.

Protection of citizens of Colorado against the Indians. Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives concerning the protection of the residents of Western Colorado against the Indians.

Protection of the Northern Frontier of Montana

Railroad and Telegraph to the Pacific

Reappropriations for 1875, and prior years. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of amounts to be reappropriated for the year 1875, and for prior years

Remonstrance of the Seminole and Creek delegates against the passage of Senate bill No. 107, to enable Indians to become citizens of the United States.

Removal of certain tribes of Indians. (To accompany bill H. R. 5002.) Letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the removal of certain Indians in the states of Oregon, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and the territories of Washington and Dakota.

Report and accompanying documents of the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the relations of the United States with Mexico

Report : Claim of Heirs of J. Beaubien

Report of Governor of Idaho Territory, 1878

Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, communicating, in obedience to law, a statement of judgments rendered by said court for the year ending December 2, 1878

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1878

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1878

Report of the Governor of Arizona Territory, 1878

Report of the Governor of Dakota Territory, 1878

Report of the Governor of Montana Territory, 1878

Report of the Governor of Utah Territory, 1878

Report of the Governor of Washington Territory, 1878

Report of the Governor of Wyoming Territory, 1878

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 third session of the Forty-fifth Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1878

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 third session of the Forty-fifth Congress : Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1878

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 third session of the Forty-fifth Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1878

Report on Salmon-Fisheries

Report on the Brothertown Indians

Report on the lands of the arid region of the United States, with a more detailed account of the lands of Utah. With maps. By J. W. Powell

Report on the Territory of Lincoln

Report : Pancoast Loose

Report : Petition of C. Whiting

Report : Petition of J. Turner et al.

Report : Petition of T. Mesplie

Report : Petition of T. Walker

Reprt on the Pottawatomies

Resolution and Amendment of Senator Voorhees and Senator Dorsey

Resolution and Amendment of Senator Voorhees and Senator Dorsey

Resolution of Senator Mitchell

Resolution of Senator Patterson

Robert C. Buchanan

R_P of B. Overton

Salt Spring Lands in Minnesota

Settlers in Wind River Valley, Wyoming.

Spencer & Mead.

S. T. Marshall.

Suit Against the Cherokee Nation

Supplies furnished Sioux Indians of Minnesota.

Surveys by the War Department. Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, giving information concerning the surveys conducted by the department in the last ten years.

Surveys of the Territories. Letter from the acting President of the National Academy of Sciences transmitting a report on the surveys of the territories

Susanna Marble and others.

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, 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

The abandonment of certain military posts. Letter from the Secretary of War, concerning the abandonment of certain military posts.

The Choctaw Nation of Indians

The Texas Pacific Railroad

The Texas Pacific Railroad

The Texas Pacific Railroad

The transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department

Transfer of Indian Bureau. Concurrent resolutions of the Legislature of California, favoring the transfer of Indian Affairs to the War Department

Transfer of Indians from civil to military management. Memorial of the delegations of the Cherokee, Creek and Seminole, Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, of the Indian Territory, to the Congress of the United States, in opposition to the transfer of the Indians from civil to military management, as contemplated in bill H. R. 959 and others of like import now pending in Congress

Western Cherokees

William Brindle

William G. Langford.

Wisconsin land-claim. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to Hon. T. C. Pound, House of Representatives, transmitting certain papers relative to the claim of the State of Wisconsin for certain lands included in Indian reservations, and recommending legislation thereon.

Submissions from 1879 1879

Affairs in Indian Territory

Amendment of rules

Amount due Choctaw Nation.

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1878

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1879

Appropriations, new offices, etc. Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the first session of the Forty-sixth 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

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

Bands of Chippewas in Wisconsin

California Indian War bonds

Captain J. B. Campbell

Choctaw claim. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of the Interior upon a certain claim of the Choctaw Nation

Eastern band of Cherokees. Remonstrance of the principal chief and delegates of the Cherokee Nation of Indians against the passage of any bill to allow the Eastern band of Cherokees to sue the Cherokee Nation

Equal rights to all religious denominations among Indians

Equal rights to religious denominations on Indian reservations

Estimates of deficiencies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required by the various departments to complete the service of the current and prior years

Great and Little Osage Indians

Henry C. De Ahna

Homesteads on Public Lands

Industrial training schools for Indian youths

James O. Robertson

Klamath Indian Reservation

Klamath Indian reservation lands

Lands of Warm Springs, Umatilla, Chippewa, Ute, and other Indian tribes

Lands to Indians in severalty

Letter from the Chief Clerk of the Court of Claims, transmitting, in obedience to law, a statement of all judgments rendered by said court for the year ending November 29, 1879

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of January 8, 1879, information respecting an arrangement made between the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Lawrence University, of Appleton, Wis., for the education of Indian children

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, a report embodying a statement of the property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the Department of the Interior.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881

Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to a Senate resolution of June 4, 1879, accompanying information in relation to the arrest and removal of J. M. Bell and other Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee Nation

Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, communicating information in relation to the escape of the Cheyenne Indians from Fort Robinson

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication from the Commanding General, Department of the Missouri, inclosing a report of C. A. H. McCauley, Third Cavalry, of his explorations in and about Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a report of the acting Chief of Engineers, upon a provision in the Sundry Civil Bill, approved March 3, 1879, discontinuing the geographical surveys west of the one hundredth meridian under the War Department after June 30, 1879

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting information in regard to arrest and removal of J. M. Bell and other Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee Nation, &c

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting letter of Colonel John Gibbon, U. S. A., relating to compensation of citizen volunteers who participated in the battle of Big Hole, Montana.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieut. Gen. P. H. Sheridan, in regard to operations to control squatters in the Indian Territory

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