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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 1880 1880

Courts of justice in Alaska

[Creek Orphan Fund]

Creek orphan fund

Daniel S. McDougall and Charles S. Wilder

Debt due Osage Indians

Duluth and Winnipeg Railroad Company

Elias C. Boudinot.

E. N. Fish & Co

Estimates of deficiencies. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and prior years

Ethnology of North American Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian institution, recommending an appropriation for continuing the ethnologic researches among the North American Indians.

Exclusion of reservation Indians from Texas

Frank D. Yates and others.

Frontier defense expenses of Texas.

Great and Little Osage Indians

Green Clay Smith.

Hannah M. Wright.

Henrietta Buggert.

Houston L. Taylor

Indemnity lands to Wisconsin

Indian Trust Funds

Indian war expenses of Kansas

Industrial training schools for Indians

[Investigation of the Accounts of the Treasury Department]

John M. Dorsey and William F. Shepard

John M. Dorsey and William F. Shepard

[Joseph B. Campbell]

Judicial system of Montana

Lands in severalty to Indians

Lands in severalty to Peorias and Miamies

Laws of the United States of a local or temporary character, and exhibiting the entire legislation of Congress upon which the public land titles in each state and territory have depended. December 1, 1880. Embracing, also, a digest of all Indian treaties affecting the titles to public lands; an abstract of the authority for, and the boundaries of, the existing military reservations; and a table of judicial and executive decisions affecting the various subjects arising under the public land system

Laws of the United States of a local or temporary character, and exhibiting the entire legislation of Congress upon which the public land titles in each state and territory have depended. December 1, 1880. Embracing, also, a digest of all Indian treaties affecting the titles to public lands; an abstract of the authority for, and the boundaries of, the existing military reservations; and a table of judicial and executive decisions affecting the various subjects arising under the public land system

Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill

Letter from Cherokee Delegation, (April 8, 1880), inclosing amendment desired to be offered to the Indian appropriation bill advancing $500,000 to Cherokee Nation, on account of lands belonging to them west of the Arkansas River, sold by the United States, with inclosures.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1879, information in relation to the number of mining camps located on the Ute Indian Reservation in Colorado.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing opinion of Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to proposed amendment to Indian appropriation bill advancing $500,000 to Cherokee Nation on account of lands of theirs sold by the United States.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, on the condition and resources of the Chippewa Indians of the State of Minnesota and the Territory of Dakota

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, relative to the sale of certain bonds held in trust for the Shawnce Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, (to the Hon. Richard Coke, Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate,) transmitting report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to depredations on timber on Indian reservations, with amendments suggested to bill H. R. 6321.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1879, correspondence concerning the Ute Indians in Colorado.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with section 194 of the revised statutes of the United States, a statement of the clerks and others employed in the several bureaus of the department during the year 1879, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting information, in response to Senate resolution of April 1, 1880, relative to affidavits field in that department by or on behalf of the settlers on the Uncompahgre Park in Colorado; also letter from Hon. C. H. McIntyre on the subject, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the Senate relative to the rejection of certain bids for wagons for the Indian Service, a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and accompanying correspondence.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 22, 1880, certain information relative to contracts for Indian supplies, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 11, exemplifications of land patents issued to Indian tribes in Indian Territory, and copies of applications of railway corporations and action thereon.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting Letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, dated April 15, 1880, relative to erroneous surveys in the former Sioux Indian Reservation west of Big Stone Lake, in Dakota, submitting estimate for re-survey, and recommending favorable consideration of the Senate.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting the report and opinion of the Surveyor-General of Arizona Territory, together with a duly authenticated copy of the title papers and testimony in the matter of the private land claim, No. 7, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 26, 1880, information in regard to the present condition of affairs in Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of March 9, 1880, the report of Captain Bailey upon the number, occupation, and condition of the people of Alaska; the report of the Supervising Surgeon-General Marine Hospital Service on the same subject; also report of Special Agent Otis upon the illicit traffic in rum and fire-arms.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, adopted on the 5th instant, copies of reports of Capt. John W. White, of the United States Revenue Service, concerning matters connected with Alaska Territory, and also copies of all material papers relating to the transfer of the jurisdiction over the territory from the War Department to the Treasury, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of the 22d instant, a copy of the report of Henry C. De Ahna, formerly Collector of Customs at Sitka, Alaska, in regard to the resources, condition, and affairs of the Territory of Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 28, 1879, a tabulated statement showing the annual amount paid under what is known as permanent annual appropriations from 1865 to 1879, inclusive, &c

Letter from the Secretary of War, recommending an appropriation of $5,000 for the completion of the road from Fort Bridger to Uintah Agency.

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the completion of Fort Assinaboine, Montana Territory, and the construction of a new post near Wood Mountain in that territory

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a communication presenting the importance of geographical and topographical surveys of the territory of the United States west of the Mississippi River, together with an estimate of an appropriation therefor.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting correspondence relative to an appropriation for the establishment of a military post for the protection of the settlements of Judith Basin and the Muscleshell, Montana Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of Lieut. Thomas H. Bradley, examiner of state claims, on the claims of states against the United States, in response to an inquiry from the Committee on Claims, United States Senate

[Lieut. John A. Payne]

List of private claims brought before the Senate of the United States from the commencement of the Fourteenth Congress to the close of the Forty-sixth Congress, Volume 1

List of private claims brought before the Senate of the United States from the commencement of the Fourteenth Congress to the close of the Forty-sixth Congress, Volume 2

Lizzie M. Mitchell

Margaret A. Spencer

Margaret E. West.

Margaret S. Heintzelman.

Memorial of George M. Jackson and others (on their way to the public lands in the Indian Territory), asking such relief as will enable them to pursue their journey and settle on said public lands.

Memorial of Indian delegates remonstrating against the passage of an act providing for the organization of a United States territorial government over the Indian country

Message from the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of December 3, 1879, information in relation to payments made to the Ute Indians in accordance with the fourth article of an agreement with said Indians made September 3, 1873.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Interior containing an agreement signed by the chiefs and headmen of the Ute Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report from the Secretary of the Interior containing an agreement signed by the chiefs and headmen of the Ute Indians

Military posts on Rio Grande Frontier.

Mission of Saint James

New York Indian lands in Kansas

New York Indian lands in Kansas

On the Case of Dr. Appel

On the Case of Dr. Appel

On the Case of J. Dolan

On the Case of J. Nix

On the Case of the Widow of Maj. Thornburgh

On the Case of W. Gaines

On the Relief of Capt. Campbell

On the Relief of H. Warren

On the Relief of J. Chickering

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