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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 1882 1882

Delaware Indians

Delaware Indians

Delegate from Alaska

Depredations on Indian Reservations

Digested summary and alphabetical list of private claims presented to the House of Representatives from the Forty-second to the Forty-sixth Congress, inclusive; exhibiting the action of Congress on each claim, with references to the journals, reports, bills, etc., elucidating its progress

Disbursement of money by Indian agents

Disposition of Lands in Military Reserves

Dr. Daniel M. Appel

Dr. John A. Tonner

Drusilla H. Swanger.

Dr. Walter Reed.

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina.

Eliza Atkins Merchant

Elizabeth S. M. Finley.

Estate of James Riley.

Eugene B. Allen

Evans, Nichols & Co

Fort Hall and Lemhi reservations in Idaho

Frances H. Plummer

Frank D. Yates and others.

Fred. Phillips.

General Alfred Pleasonton.

General deficiency bill.

General Edward Hatch

George C. Quick

Government for Southeastern Alaska

Green Bay Indian Agency

Hannah M. Wright

Henrietta Buggert.

Ignacio Chaves and others

Indian agent at Green Bay Agency, Wisconsin

Indian appropriation bill.

Indian appropriation bill.

Indian lands in Colorado

James K. Sturtevant.

James M. Bacon.

J. L. Burchard.

Joab Spencer and James R. Mead.

John C. Fenscke.

John R. Taggert.

Joseph Hertford

Judgments of Court of Claims. Statement of all judgments rendered by the Court of Claims for the year ending December 3, 1881. Transmitted in pursuance of section 1057 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

Klamath Indian Reservation, in California

Lands in Colorado

Lands located with military land warrants.

Lands located with military land warrants.

Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill

Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill.

Letter and accompanying documents transmitted by the Secretary of Interior, in response to inquiries of the Committee on Education and Labor as to existence of lands in the Indian Territory available for settlement by the colored population

Letter from the Attorney-General of the United States, transmitting a list embracing all the publications of that department, in compliance with Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, calling for same

Letter from the Postmaster General, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 21, 1882, information relating to the postal routes in Dakota, from Fort Niobrara to Rapid City, and from Chamberlain to said Rapid City

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, relative to alleged excess in the certification of lands to certain railroad companies.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to lands granted by the government to certain railroads

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to the alleged action of certain Mormons in inciting the Piute and Navajo Indians to outbreak

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting estimates of pensions for Mexican War and certain Indian wars

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to resolution of the House of February 25, 1882, relative to the lands and funds of the eastern band of North Carolina Cherokees.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication from Attorney-General and report of Commissioner of General Land Office, also report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of January 10, 1882, calling for information touching the opening for settlement under the pre-emption laws of the United States of part of the Ute Reservation in Colorado

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication, with accompanying papers, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of January 24, 1882, calling for information relating to amounts expended for the education of Indian children, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a detailed statement of the disbursement of the contingent funds of the bureaus and offices of the Interior Department for the year ending June 30, 1881

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a list of Indian depredation claims presented to the department prior to March 15, 1882

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting copy of report, dated 15th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying papers, in response to Senate resolution of March 13, 1882, "requesting list of all Indian reservations upon which troops are stationed; also such information as may be on file in that department touching the destruction and inordinate consumption of timber by the troops upon such reservations," &c

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 Interior Department and under its charge

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, the report and opinion of the U. S. Surveyor-General of the Territory of Arizona, on private land claim No. 13, known as "Rancho de Otero and House Lot.".

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of February 7, 1882, copy of report of the acting Commissioner of the General Land Office of April 25, 1881, in reference to the right of occupation by settlers of any portion of the Indian Territory

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting information, with report dated the 4th instant, from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in response to Senate resolution of the 26th ultimo, calling for the action taken by that department to ascertain the damages resulting from the raid of Northern Cheyenne Indians through the western portion of the Indian Territory and the States of Kansas and Nebraska in 1878

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 15, 1882, a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the 14th instant, submitting report dated the 12th instant, and its accompanying documents, on the claims of the Old Settler Cherokees, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 26, 1882, a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, of the 9th instant, relating to the amount of indebtedness by the Kansas tribe of Indians to individuals represented by certificates issued by any officer of the government, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 6, 1882, the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office upon the survey of the United States and Texas Boundary Commission.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 3, 1882, a detailed statement of account showing the amounts received as Indian civilization fund, the source from whence derived, and the disbursements, &c

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, a list of all books, reports, documents, and pamphlets printed or published by this department from 1789 to 1881

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of the 22d instant, a statement of the sums of money paid to the Ponca Indians since 1871, and under what treaty obligation

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, pursuant to Section 8 of the Act of July 22, 1854, extended by the Sundry Civil Act of July 15, 1870, certain papers relating to the private land claim in the Territory of Arizona known as El Sopori

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting reports officers of the United States Navy cruising in the waters of Alaska

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives, transmitting the papers in the claim of Charles Ewing against the Osage Indian Nation

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1884

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the estimates of appropriations required by the various departments to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882, and prior years

Letter from the Secretary of War, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives relative to troops in Arizona.

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the claim of Florida against the United States for the suppression of Indian hostilities between the years 1855 and 1860.

Letter from the Secretary of War, relative to the subdivision of the reservations of Forts Dodge and Wallace, and the sale of buildings thereon.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting copies of correspondence, &c., relative to the expenditure of the appropriation made by the Act of April 16, 1880, "for acquiring sites and the erection of suitable posts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier," in response to resolution of the House of Representatives of January 12, 1882

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1882, a letter from the Chief of Engineers of yesterday's date, and the accompanying copy of a report from Lieut. T. W. Symons, Corps of Engineers, embracing all the information in this department respecting the navigable waters of the Upper Columbia River and its tributaries, and of the country adjacent thereto

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 24, 1881, reports of the publications, &c., of the respective bureaus of the War Department from March 4, 1789, to March 4, 1881.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting report of the Adjutant-General, dated the 15th instant, inclosing copies of reports from the Commanding Generals of the divisions of the Missouri and the Pacific, giving the desired information called for in Senate resolution of January 30, 1882, calling for the number of Indians held as prisoners, under orders from the War Department, &c

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting statements from the Quartermaster-General and others in reference to Senate resolution of January 24, 1882, calling for information in relation to the cost to the government of the Indian wars during each of the past ten years, &c

Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad lands.

Manufacture of salt in the Indian Territory

Memorial of a committee of a mass meeting held at Gunnison, Colo., in favor of the late Ute Reservation being opened for settlement

Memorial of Omaha Indians in relation to lands sold by the United States to the Winnebagoes, and to certain accounts with the government

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