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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 1884 1884

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution, December 20, 1883, report of Commissioner of the General Land Office relative to lands certified or patented to railroad companies since December, 1875

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with Senate resolution of December 4, 1883, copies of documents and correspondence relating to leases of lands in the Indian Territory to citizens of the United States for cattle-grazing and other purposes.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in obedience to law, an inventory of property of the United States under charge of the Interior Department.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of June 24, 1884, reports from the Office of Indian Affairs and the General Land Office, with accompanying papers, relating to alleged claims to portions of the Zuni Indian Reservation in New Mexico and Arizona; also transmitting copies of letters from the Department of the Interior to Hon. John A. Logan, in reference to amending the order setting apart said reservation.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of January 22, information concerning the status of certain lands in the Indian Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of July 2, 1884, reports relative to the condition of the Northern Cheyenne Indians on the Tongue and Rosebud Rivers.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 13, 1884, preliminary report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning roll of the Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi River

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to affairs of Indians in Lake Winnibigoshish and Leech Lake Indian Reservations.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, submitting report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico on the private land claim of the town of Albuquerque, with various papers relating thereto.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letter of the Commissioner of the General Land Office submitting supplemental report of the Surveyor-General of Arizona on the private land claim (No. 7) known as Tumacacori y Calabazas, C. P. Sykes et al.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letters of Indian Agent Armstrong and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relative to the condition and necessities of the Crow Indians, and urging that the amount specified in the annual estimate for flour, meat, &c., be increased to $90,000

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with inclosure, and recommending the removal of certain restrictions upon the disbursement of funds appropriated for the support of Indian schools

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the amount appropriated March 3, 1883, for Cherokee Nation, and legislation to protect the rights of adopted citizens of said nation

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to the failure of the Utah and Northern Railway Company to compensate certain Indians for right of way

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico in the case of the New Mexico private land claim No. 132 -- Antonio De Salazar.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting statement from the Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of purchases exceeding in amount $500 made in open market, without advertisement, from February 1, 1884, to June 30, 1884.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of $50,000 from the Interior Department to supply deficiency in the appropriation for the support of Indians of the Blackfeet, Crow, Fort Belknap, and Fort Peck agencies for the current fiscal year

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates from the Interior Department of appropriations for the Indian service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1886

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a copy of the report of the Third Auditor of the Treasury upon the bill (S. 809) to indemnify the State of California for balances paid and remaining due on account of indebtedness incurred in the Indian wars

Lucy Ann Lee and Allen G. Lee

Massacre of Dr. Marcus Whitman and others. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, relative to the massacre of Dr. Marcus Whitman, in answer to resolution of House of Representatives, of April 3.

Memorial of Old Settler or Western Cherokees

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of 19th instant, submitting draft of bill providing for the allotment of lands in severalty to the Arickaree, Gros Ventre, and Mandan Indians on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, Dakota

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior of the 19th instant, submitting draft of bill to allow Indian homestead entries, in certain cases, without the payment of fees and commissions.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of 10th instant, from Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of appropriation for the settlement, under existing treaties, of certain freedmen and their descendants upon lands known as the Oklahoma District, Indian Territory.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of the 11th instant, from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a draft of bill "for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California."

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of the 11th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an item of appropriation in the sum of $3,000 for the location and survey of boundary lines of certain lands purchased by the United States from Creek Indians for use of Seminole Indians, Indian Territory.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication of the Secretary of the Interior relating to the boundary line between the United States and the State of Texas

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of December 5, 1883, report of the Secretary of State respecting the execution of the Treaty of 1819 with Spain.

Mexican and other war pensions

Mexican claims. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report and accompanying papers relative to the payment of claims specified in the fifth section of the Act of Congress approved June 18, 1878

Mexican Pottawatomie Indians of Kansas

Military Academy West of the Mississipi River

Mille Lac Indian Reservation in Minnesota. Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to Mille Lac Reservation, in answer to resolution of the House of Representatives of March 21.

Mrs. Lydia S. Huggins

Mrs. Mary T. Barnes

New revenue steamer. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting recommendations for a new revenue steamer

New York Indian lands in Kansas

Nez Perce and Bannock Indian wars.

North Carolina bonds

North Carolina bonds

Oklahoma Lands in Indian Territory

Overton Love and Wyatt Gilschrist

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, 1884

Payment of Kaw or Kansas Indian scrip

Pensions for War of 1812; Mexican, Florida, and Black Hawk Wars

Pensions to soldiers of the Tippecanoe campaign, 1811

Pottawatomie Indians of Kansas and the Indian Territory

P-P of H. Kelley

Protest of A. Miller, delegate of the Stockbridge nation of Indians, against the passage of bill H. R. 2889

Protest of D. W. Bushyhead, Principal Chief, and other Cherokee and Creek Indians, against the passage of Senate bill no. 50 and House bill no. 3961

Red Lake Indian Reservation, Minnesota

Relating to certain public grounds at Chicago, Ill

Report : Claim of 0. Streeter

Report : Claim of Florida

Report : Claim of G. Brott

Report : Claim of G. Carlyle

Report : Claim of H. Hobson

Report : Claim of I. Minor

Report : Claim of J. Bridger

Report : Claim of J. Burchard

Report : Claim of J. Fletcher

Report : Claim of J. Leathers

Report : Claim of M. Thompson

Report : Claim of O. Love and W. Gilschrist

Report : Claim of Rev. Willey

Report : Claim of S. Wood

Report : Claim of T. M. English

Report : Claim of Volunteers in Indian Wars

Report : Claim of W. Beddo et al.

Report of a military reconnaissance in Alaska, made in 1883

Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1883

Report of the Commissioner of Education for the year 1883-'84

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1884

Report of the cruise of the Revenue Marine steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the year 1884

Report of the Governor of Alaska, 1884

Report of the Governor of Arizona, 1884

Report of the Governor of Dakota, 1884

Report of the Governor of Idaho, 1884

Report of the Governor of Montana, 1884

Report of the Governor of New Mexico, 1884

Report of the Governor of Washington Territory, 1884

Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884

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-eighth Congress, 1884

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-eighth Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1884

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-eighth Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1884

Report of the Superintendent of Indian Schools, 1884

Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U. S. Navy, commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884.

Report : Petition of A. Durrant

Report : Petition of Capt. Northup.

Report : Petition of C. McCay

Report : Petition officers of the Fifth Infantry

Report : Petition of F. Plummer

Report : Petition of H. Van Trees

Report : Petition of Idaho.

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