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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 1885 1885

Land Claim in Mississippi

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting an abstract of sixteen claims for Indian depredations reported to that department since December 10, 1884.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriation received from the Secretary of the Interior to pay G. T. Newman for beef delivered at Blackfeet Agency.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate from Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation to purchase certain improvements within the Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with reference to the appropriation of $2,000 for the purchase of teams, &c., for the Lawrence School

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting answer to Senate resolution March 3, 1885, calling for information as to any change in the boundary of the Crow Creek Agency in Dakota

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the expenditure of the contingent fund for that department for the year ended June 30, 1885

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a supplemental report of Indian depredation claims reported to that department since January 13, 1885

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a supplemental report on certain Indian depredation claims

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of December 17, 1884, report regarding the leasing of land on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of December 23, 1884, report of Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding the price paid for certain Cherokee lands

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of December 3, 1884, report relative to the leasing of Indian lands in the Indian Territory

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, with report upon the coal on the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona

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 compliance with Senate resolution of January 5, 1885, papers relating to the condition of affairs at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Indian Agency.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting papers additional to those transmitted December 30, 1884, relative to leasing lands on the Crow Indian Reservation, in Montana.

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting a report of recent explorations in Northern Alaska, by Lieut. George M Stoney, U. S. N.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to an appropriation of $25,000 to purchase property for Indian school purposes

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to the protection of seal and the enforcement of laws in Alaska, and recommending an appropriation of $25,000 for the Revenue Marine Service in that territory

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, resubmitting the estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation of $2,000 for support and education of certain Flathead Indian pupils, which estimate was transmitted to the House by the Secretary of the Interior December 11, 1884, House document no. 29.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior for subsistence and removal of certain Eastern Cherokee Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation for the expense of making sale of the Omaha lands in Nebraska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation for the removal of the Nez Perce Indians from the Indian Territory

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation of $10,000 for heating apparatus in the Indian industrial school buildings at Forest Grove, Oreg.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate of appropriations for the service of the civil government in the Territory of Alaska

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a report from the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information in regard to the range and ranch cattle traffic in the Western states and territories

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the various departments of the government for the fiscal year 1885 and for prior years

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter from the Secretary of the Interior, with inclosures, relative to the claim of Captain & Co. for supplies furnished Osage Indians in Kansas in 1871-'72, $1,416.10.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the various departments of the government for the fiscal year 1885, and for prior years

Memorial of J. C. Adams, for and in behalf of the Stockbridge and Munsee Tribe of Indians.

Memorial of the loyal Creek Indians with reference to the awards made to those Creeks who enlisted in the Federal Army, loyal refugees and freedmen, and asking the action of Congress upon that subject.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to amending the law against trespasses upon Indian lands

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to right of way to the Jamestown and Northern Railroad Company through Devil's Lake Indian Reservation

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the relief for the Mission Indians in California

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

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to timber depredations on the public reservations

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with a draft of proposed legislation relative to claims of Omaha Indians against the Winnebago Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill to ratify an agreement with the Indians at Yakima Reservation

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of the Secretary of the Interior relative to the failure of the Utah and Northern Railroad to compensate certain Indians for lands used in the construction of the road

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication of the Secretary of the Interior, with accompanying papers, with reference to legislation to carry out a certain agreement with Indians in Washington Territory.

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

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication of the Secretary of the Interior in relation to the condition of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communications of the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, relative to certain lands in the Indian Territory acquired by treaty from the Creek and Seminole Indians.

Message of the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, with draft of a bill to ratify an agreement made by the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians

Mrs. Eliza W. Thornburgh

Northern Cheyenne Indians. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, inclosing a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the condition of the Northern Cheyenne Indians

Official Register of the United States, containing a list of officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1885

Official Register of the United States, containing a list of officers and employes in the civil, military, and naval service on the first of July, 1885; together with a list of ships and vessels belonging to the United States

Old Settlers, or Western Cherokees

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, 1885

Petition of Santee Sioux Indians

Relief of Certain States and Territories

Report : Claim of B. Reinhart and Co.

Report : Claim of Dorsey and Shepard

Report : Claim of the Western Cherokees

Report : Memorial of G. Getty

Report : Memorial of J. Fell et al.

Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 1884

Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 1885

Report of the Governor of Alaska, 1885

Report of the Governor of Arizona, 1885

Report of the Governor of Idaho, 1885

Report of the Governor of Montana, 1885

Report of the Governor of New Mexico, 1885

Report of the Governor of Utah, 1885

Report of the Governor of Washington Territory, 1885

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-ninth Congress, 1885

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-ninth Congress, Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1885

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-ninth Congress : Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1885

Report of the Secretary of War; bring part of the message and documents communicated to the two Houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress : Report of the Secretary of War, 1885

Report : Petition of C. Thomas

Report : Petition of E. Alvord

Report : Petition of E. Connor

Report : Petition of E. Thornburg

Report : Petition of F. Nelson et al.

Report : Petition of F. Thomas

Report : Petition of G. Bean

Report : Petition of H. Cook

Report : Petition of H. Dougherty

Report : Petition of J. Babb et al.

Report : Petition of J. Chambers

Report : Petition of L. Huggins

Report : Petition of V. Calloway

Report : Petition of W. Lockhart

Reservations for the Indians in Northern Montana

Resolution of Senator Ingalls

Resolution of Senator Manderson

Resolution of Senator Morgan

Resolution of Senator Plumb

Right of Way in Pennsylvania

Saint Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company

Statement of the Clerk of the Court of Claims, showing the judgments rendered by said court for the year ending November 30, 1885.

Statements showing I. Appropriations made during the second 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.

Sundry civil appropriation bill

Tabular statements of disbursements made from the appropriations for the Indian Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, 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

Thanks of Congress to the officers and crew of the steamer Corwin

Treaties and conventions concluded between the United States of America and other powers since July 4, 1776. Containing notes, with references to negotiations preceding the several treaties, to the executive, legislative, or judicial construction of them, and to the causes of the abrogation of some of them; a chronological list of treaties; and an analytical index

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