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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 1881 1881

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting duplicate copies of two letters received by the Indian Office from Agents Miles and Hunt, of the Indian Territory, relating to the deficiency estimate transmitted on the 21st ultimo

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of the 15th instant, a copy of the report of the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., upon the condition of education in Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, a full and complete inventory of all property belonging to the United States in the buildings, rooms, offices, and grounds occupied by the department and under its charge

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of May 19, 1881, a list showing the names of all officers, clerks, and other employes borne upon the rolls of the department.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with the requirement of section 8 of the Act of 22d July, 1854 (10 Stat., 308), the plats and papers in the following private land claims in the Territory of New Mexico, viz: No. 112, Mesilla and Arroyo Seco; No. 114, Santa Barbara; No. 118, Ojo de Borrega; No. 119, San Miguel del Bado

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of January 27, 1881, copy of report of Ute Commission, and copies of all correspondence between this department and the Ute Commission, and also the Governor of Colorado, concerning the same since June 15, 1880

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 21st ultimo, copies of all papers in his office relative to the settlement of the accounts of Dexter E. Clapp, late agent of the Crow Indians, Montana Territory

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of a report of Brig. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, dated September 1881, of an inspection of Forts Cour d'Alene and Colville, and Camp Spokane, Washington Territory, with the indorsement of the General of the Army, in which he recommends an appropriation of $40,000 for a permanent military post in Northern Washington Territory, &c.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of papers relative to the abandonment of Camp Sheridan, Nebr., ordered to take effect May 1, 1881, together with special report as to the number and condition of buildings, &c., at that post

Letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office transmitting Annual Report for 1881 : Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1881

Memorial of J. F. McCurtain, principal chief of the Choctaw Nation, calling attention to the violation of treaties with that nation, and asking payment of an award made under the Treaty of 1830

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, in reference to the applications of the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central, and the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Companies, for a right of way across the lands of the Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the commission appointed December 18, 1880, to ascertain the fact in regard to the removal of the Ponca Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 21, 1879, reports from the Secretaries of the Interior and War, relative to expenses in certain Indian wars

Money Due for Indian Supplies

Mrs. Clara A. Thompson

On the Relief of Gen. Ord

On the Relief of Montana Citizens

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 5, 1881

Petaca land grant.

Petition of A. J. Carrier, late Indian Agent for the Ponca Indians, praying to be allowed the amount expended for employes at said agency in excess of the amount prescribed by law for employes at Indian agencies, and payment of moneys advanced by him for the use of said agency.

Population and resources of Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a preliminary report upon the population, industry, and resources of Alaska

Relief of certain citizens of Idaho.

Report : Claim of F. Yates

Report : Claim of F. Yates

Report : Claim of Georgia

Report : Claim of S. McDonald

Report : Claim of W. Langford

Report : Memorial of S. Buchanan

Report : Memorial of the Western Cherokees

Report of the acting Governor of Arizona, 1881

Report of the Governor of Dakota, 1881

Report of the Governor of Montana, 1881

Report of the Governor of New Mexico, 1881

Report of the Governor of Territory of Wyoming, 1881

Report of the Governor of the Territory of Idaho, 1881

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 first session of the Forty-seventh Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1881

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 first session of the Forty-seventh Congress : Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1881

Report of the Secretary of the Interior; being part of the message and documents communicating to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-seventh Congress : Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1881

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 first session of the Forty-seventh Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1881

Report : Petition of J. Conrad

Report : Petition of R. Grattan

Resolution of the Legislature of Texas, in favor of a grant of the right of way through the Indian Territory to the Saint Louis and San Francisco Railway Company.

Sale of Miami Lands

Sarah L. Merchant.

Stockbridge and Munsee Indians of Wisconsin. Letter from the acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs of the House of Representatives, in relation to the bill of the House of Representatives for the relief of the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians, in the State of Wisconsin

Supplies to the Sioux

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1881, 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

Territory of Pembina

The Crow Indian Treaty

The public domain. Its history, with statistics, with references to the national domain, colonization, acquirement of territory, the survey, administration and several methods of sale and disposition of the public domain of the United States. With sketch of legislative history of the land states and territories, and references to the land system of the colonies, and also that of several foreign governments.

Title to Certain Public Grounds

Title to Certain Public Grounds

United States District Court at Wichita. Kans.

White River Ute Commission investigation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of evidence taken before White River Ute Commission.

Wind River Valley settlers.

Submissions from 1882 1882

Abstract of Indian-depredation claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an abstract of Indian-depredation claims acted upon since April 8, 1882.

Accounts for advertising Kansas Indian lands

A certain land claim in New Mexico.

Agreement with the Crow Indians of Montana.

Alleged shelling of Alaskan villages. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to the alleged shelling of two villages in Alaska by the revenue cutter Corwin.

Alleged shelling of Alaskan villages. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to the alleged shelling of two villages in Alaska by the revenue cutter Corwin.

Allotment of Certain Indian Lands

Amanda J. McFadden.

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1875

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1876

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1877

An agreement with the Sioux Indians, Dakota, for a cession of a part of their reservation to the United States

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1881.

Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1882

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1882

Appropriations for sundry civil expenses for 1883

Army Record of Certain Officers

Augustus Lempp.

Boundary between Texas and Indian Territory

Bounty land for Florida Indian wars

Brevet commissions for service in Indian Wars

Caroline R. French.

Certain land claim in New Mexico

Certain urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882.

Charles L. Dahler.

Cherokee Central Railroad and Telegraph Co.

Cherokee Indian lands

Civil government for Alaska.

Civil government for Alaska.

Claims for supplies to Sioux Indians

Claims of Kansas, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Idaho, and Washington.

Claims of Kansas, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Idaho, and Washington.

Condition of the Gen. Land Office

Correspondence with U. S. naval officers in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives transmitting correspondence with United States naval officers in Alaskan waters.

Creek and Seminole Indians

Creek Orphan Fund

Crow Indian Reservation in Montana

Definition of the Words "Indian Country."

Delaware Indians

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