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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 1883 1883

Elizabeth Conner.

Estates of deceased Kickapoo Indians. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to settlement of estates of deceased Kickapoo Indians in Kansas

Estimates for deficiencies in appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates for deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, and prior years

Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners for the year 1882.

Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1882-'83.

General A. L. Anderson.

Indiana Methodist Church, of Norfolk County, Virginia

Indian depredation claims. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting abstract showing the character and amount of all claims presented to him since date of last report, December 6, 1882, for depredations committed by Indians, &c.

Indian treaty of Buffalo Creek, New York

Indian war claims of California

Judgments of the Court of Claims. Letter from the Clerk of the Court of Claims transmitting a statement of judgments rendered for the year ended December 3, 1882.

Land patents to certain railroad companies. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives in relation to land patents to certain railroad companies.

Lands in Duck Valley, Nevada. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to lands in Duck Valley, Nevada

Lands to Chippewa Indians, Lake Superior. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to allotment of lands in severalty to Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior

Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a communication of the 16th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, recommending an appropriation of $14,100 for the purchase of stock-cattle, &c., for the bands of Sioux Indians of Red Cloud and Red Leaf

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, respecting the deficiency in the appropriation for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the Sioux Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, calling attention to the necessity of an immediate appropriation to enable the fulfillment of article 10 of the Treaty of April 29, 1868 (15 Stat., 635), with the Sioux Indians

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter of the 16th instant from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, respecting the large sums annually expended for attorneys' fees by different Indian tribes, recommending the appointment of an officer for that purpose

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 this department and under its charge

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 5, 1883, a report concerning depredations on the public timber in the Territory of Montana

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885

Memorial of the Legislature of the Territory of Montana, concerning the treatment of Indians and depredations committed by them upon settlers and their property

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of 3d instant submitting draft of a bill "for the relief of the Nez Perce Indians in the Territory of Idaho, and of the allied tribes residing on the Grande Ronde Indian Reservation in the State of Oregon"

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of 4th instant, submitting draft of bill "to accept and ratify certain agreements made with the Sioux Indians and to grant a right of way to the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul Railway Company through the Sioux Reservation in Dakota"

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, of the 4th instant, submitting a draft of a bill to accept and ratify the agreement by the Shoshones, Bannocks, and Sheepeaters, of Fort Hall and Lemhi Reservations, in Idaho

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 4th instant submitting draft of bill "to confirm the title to certain land in the Indian Territory to the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, and the Wichitas and affiliated bands, to provide for the issuance of patents therefor."

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 4th instant, with draft of bill to accept and ratify an agreement made with Chief Moses and other Indians for the relinquishment of certain lands in Washington Territory

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a draft of bill "providing for allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians residing upon the Chehalis Reservation, in Washington Territory, and granting patents therefor".

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War in relation to the subject of invasion of Indian Territory, urging an amendment to section 2148 Revised Statutes, of imprisonment for unlawful entry upon Indian lands

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of War of December 14, 1883, respecting abandoned military reservations, and renewing recommendation for such legislation as will provide for the disposal of military sites that are no longer needed

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of 3d instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting draft of bill for the payment of the value of certain improvements made by certain settlers on the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of 3d instant, with accompanying papers, from the Secretary of the Interior, being a partial report upon the Cherokee Indian matters, required under a clause in the sundry civil appropriation of August 7, 1882

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of the 11th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting draft of a bill "to provide for the issuance of patents for certain lands in the Indian Territory, occupied by the Kickapoo, Iowa, and other Indians"

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of the 12th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs of December 8, 1883, on the subject of the "Old Settler" or "Western Cherokees."

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of the 6th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a draft of a bill "to accept and ratify an agreement with the confederated tribes of the Flathead, Kootenay, and Upper Pend d'Oreilles Indians for the sale of a portion of their reservation in Montana Territory required for the Northern Pacific Railroad."

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, setting forth the necessity of a deficiency appropriation of $78,110 for the purchase of supplies for the Crow Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior respecting the ratification of an agreement with the confederated tribes of Flathead, Kootenay, and Upper Pend d'Oreilles Indians, for the sale of a portion of their reservation in Montana Territory

Mississippi, Albuquerque and Inter-Ocean Railway Company.

Northern Pacific Railroad. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information in regard to the definite location of various parts of the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad.

Official register of the United States, containing a list officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1883; together with a list of ships and vessels belonging to the United States. Volume I

On the Case of Maj. Reno

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 4, 1883. Preceded by a list of papers and followed by an index of persons and subjects, 1883

Petition of Six Nations of New York Indians relating to Kansas Lands

Report : Claim of Florida

Report of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, showing the number, amount, &c., of judgments in said court for the year ending December 3, 1883.

Report of the Governor of Arizona, 1883

Report of the Governor of Dakota, 1883

Report of the Governor of Montana, 1883

Report of the Governor of New Mexico, 1883

Report of the Governor of Utah. 1883

Report of the Governor of Wyoming, 1883

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-eighth Congress, 1883

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-eighth Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1883

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-seventh Congress : Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1882-1883

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-eighth Congress. 1883

Report of the Superintendent of Indian Schools, 1883

Report : Petition of 0. Meacham

Report : Petition of E. Chirouse

Report : Petition of H. Kelley

Report : Petition of J. Blaze

Report : Petition of J. Little and H. Williams

Right of Way for Railroad Purposes

Right of way for railroad through Fort Smith Military Reservation.

Right of way to Dakota Central Railway through Sioux Reservation, Dakota. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to certain agreements with the Sioux Indians and right of way to Dakota Central Railway through Sioux Reservation

Right of way to the Carson and Colorado Railroad Company through Walker River Reservation in Nevada. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to right of way to Carson and Colorado Railroad Company through Walker River Reservation in Nevada

Sale of timber on certain Menominee Indian lands.

Sarah R. Darley.

Sioux Indian Treaties. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior in relation to the commission appointed to negotiate with the Sioux Indians for modification of existing treaties.

Statistics of the population of the United States at the tenth census (June 1, 1880), embracing extended tables of the population of states, counties, and minor civil divisions, with distinction of race, sex, age, nativity, and occupations; together with summary tables, derived from other census reports, relating to newspapers and periodicals; public schools and illiteracy; the dependent, defective, and delinquent classes, etc.

Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians, in the State of Wisconsin

Sundry civil appropriation bill

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1883, 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

Telegraph Commission

The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, Part 3

The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States, Part 4

Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1881-'82

Timber depredations on Indian reservations. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to timber depredations on Indian reservations

To create three additional land districts in Dakota.

Trespasses on Indian lands. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to trespasses on Indian lands

Violations of internal revenue laws in Alaska. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to violations of internal revenue laws in Alaska

Submissions from 1884 1884

Agreements with Sioux Indians

Agreements with Sioux Indians.

Alfred B. Pleasonton

Alfred B. Pleasonton

Alicia Durrant.

Allotment of Certain Indian Lands

Allotment of Lands in Severalty

Amounts due for supplies furnished to Sioux Indians of Minnesota.

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878

An account of the receipts and expenditures of the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1879

Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the institution for the year 1883

Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the state of the finances for the year 1884

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

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