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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 1879 1879

Margaret A. Spencer

Memorial of I. L. Garvin, Principal Chief of Choctaw Nation, remonstrating against the establishment of territorial governments in the Indian Nations, Indian Territory

Memorial of the delegates of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole Nation of Indians, remonstrating against the passage of Senate bill No. 1802 to establish a United States Court in the Indian Territory, and for other purposes

Memorial of the "Old Settler," or "Western" Cherokee Indians, praying for a settlement and payment of the balance claimed to be due them from the United States under the treaties of 1835-'36 and 1846

Memorial of the State Grange of Texas, praying that all treaty stipulations between the United States and the Indians in the Indian Territory may be strictly adhered to and observed in every particular

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 14, 1879, information in relation to lands in the Indian Territory acquired by the Treaties of 1866

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in answer to a Senate resolution of May 7, 1879, information in relation to an alleged occupation of a portion of the Indian Territory by white settlers

Message from the President of the United States, communicating the estimates of the appropriations needed, which were sent to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury at the opening of the last session

Message from the President of the United States, communicating the report of the commission appointed under the provisions of the act approved May 3, 1878, entitled "An act authorizing the President of the United States to make certain negotiations with the Ute Indians in the State of Colorado"

Military Post at El Paso, Texas

On the Case of Col. Collins

On the Case of H. Gates

On the Case of Maj. Haller

On the Case of M. Harris

On the Relief officers of the Fifth

On the Relief of H. fuller et al.

On the Relief of H. Jones

On the Relief of J. Chickering

On the Relief of J. Dorsey and W. Shepard

On the Relief of J. Fitzgerald

On the Relief of J. Spencer and J. Mead

On the Relief of Kansas

On the Relief of Montana Citizens

On the Relief of Oregon

On the Relief of the Winnebagoes

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 1, 1879

Pensions to certain teamsters and expressmen of the War of 1812

Pensions to teamsters and Indians who were in the service of the United States in the War of 1812, and to widows who remarried

Permit Law of the Chickasaw Nation

Petition of B. F. Overton, Delegate from the Chickasaw Nation of Indians, praying that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to issue a United States Indian Trust-fund Registered Bond, bearing interest at the rate of a per centum per annum, and to fund the present Indian trust-fund stocks and bonds at their face value; and that the Secretary of the Interior be authorized to invest all money now held, or that may come into his possession on account of redemption of bonds or stocks belonging to the trust-funds of Indian nations, in like bonds of the United States

Protection of the Rio Grande Frontier

Protest of Indian delegates against organization of territorial government over the Indian country. Protest of the delegates from the Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw Nations, against the organization of a United States territorial government over the Indian Territory

Purchase of Fort Clark , Texas

Report : Memorial of the Montana Legis.

Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1879

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1879

Report of the Governor of Arizona, 1879 [with] Report of the Surveyor-General of Arizona, 1879

Report of the Governor of Dakota, 1879 [with] Report of the Surveyor-General of Dakota, 1879

Report of the Governor of Idaho, 1879 [with] Report of the Surveyor-General of Idaho, 1879

Report of the Governor of Montana, 1879 [with] Report of the Surveyor-General of Montana, 1879

Report of the Governor of New Mexico, 1879

Report of the Governor of Utah, 1879

Report of the Governor of Washington Territory, 1879 [with] Report of the Surveyor-General of Washington, 1879

Report of the Indian Commission. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of the commission appointed to make certain negotiations with the Indians of Colorado

Report of the joint committee appointed to consider the expediency of transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department

Report of the joint committee appointed to consider the expediency of transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department

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-sixth Congress : Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1879

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-sixth Congress : Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1879

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-sixth Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1879

Report of the Surveyor-General of Wyoming, 1879.

Report : Petition of A. Dart

Report : Petition of E. Benham and F. Potter

Report : Petition officers of the Fifth Calvary

Report : Petition of H. Read

Report : Petition of M. Cahill

Report upon the customs district, public service, and resources of Alaska Territory.

Resolution in the nature of a memorial of the Legislature of Nebraska, praying for legislation for the removal of a certain portion of the Sioux Tribe of Indians from certain lands in Knox County, in that state, and that the title to said lands may be restored to that county

Resolution of Senator Allison

Resolution of Senator Rollins

Resolution of Senator Vest

Resolution of Senator Walker

Rogue River, Oregon. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copy of report of Maj. G. L. Gillespie, Corps of Engineers, of an examination of Rogue River, Oregon

Rollin J. Reeves

Settlers on lands in Indian Territory

Survey of the Western Boundary of Arkansas

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879, 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 as to the claim of Ben Holladay for losses and damages sustained by him on the Overland stage line during the years 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, and 1866, with memorial, affidavits, letters, &c., taken under the resolution of the Senate of March 12, 1878

Testimony taken by committee appointed to consider expediency of transferring Indian Bureau to War Department

The organization of the Territory of Oklahoma

Transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War Department

United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part VI. Report of the Commissioner for 1878.

Submissions from 1880 1880

Absentee Shawnee lands

Agreement with Ute Indians of Colorado

A. H. Von Luettwitz

Albert Freitag.

Alexander Graham

Amanda J. McFadden

[Angus McAuley]]

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1879

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1880

Appropriations, new offices, etc.

[Basil Moreland]

Benjamin F. Bingham.

Bowers and Richards

Captain J. B. Campbell.

Capt. J. F. Weston

Capt. J. S. Payne

Certain bands of Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin

Certain unpaid accounts in Indian Bureau

Cherokee and Arkansas River Railroad

Citizen volunteers of Idaho and Washington

Claims for supplies furnished Sioux or Dakota Indians of Minnesota

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

Claims of the State of Florida against the United States

Confederated Otoe-Missouria Indian Reservation.

Contingent expenses of the Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the disbursements of the contingent expenses of the Interior Department

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