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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 1886 1886

Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad Company.

Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railway. Message from the President of the United States, returning, at the request of the House of Representatives, House bill no. 6391, entitled "An act to authorize the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf Railway Company to construct and operate a railway through the Indian Territory, and for other purposes."

Kansas Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, with inclosures, an amendment to the estimate for fulfilling treaties with the Kansas Indians for 1888, (Book of Estimates, page 137).

Land districts in Dakota

Lands granted to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company

Lands in severalty to Crow Indians, Montana. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation of $2,000 for completing the allotment of lands in severalty to the Crow Indians in Montana.

Lands in severalty to the Indians on the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the allotment of lands in severalty to the Indians on the Round Valley Indian Reservation in California

Lands of the Seneca Indians.

Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appropriations

Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to certain Pottawatomie Indians.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in pursuance of law, a report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico on the land claim called Canada de Cochiti, No. 135.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting in response to Senate resolution, March 30, 1886, report upon the claims of certain Indians for compensation for lands.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolutions of May 10 and June 21, 1886, a letter of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs relative to certain Indian traders

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the acting Secretary of the Interior, with estimates of appropriations for investigating Indian depredations.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to an appropriation for payment of damages to Chippewa Indians.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimate of appropriation by Secretary of the Interior for certain employes at the Navajo Agency.

Letter from the acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting letter of Secretary of the Interior relative to improvement of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pa.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in compliance with law, an inventory of property in the department.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 5, papers in the case of Henry Ward.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting supplemental report of the Surveyor-General of New Mexico relative to private land claim No. 98.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1888

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in answer to Senate resolution of December 16, 1885, statement of certain disallowed accounts, and the reasons for such disallowance.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 13, 1886, report of Agent Tingle on the seal islands of Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 1, 1886, an account of the transactions of A. B. Meacham

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of February 1, 1886, an account of the transactions of A. B. Meacham

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 9, 1886, papers relating to the claim of William J. Martin.

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of March 3, 1886, report of the Adjutant-General relative to transfers of abandoned reservations to the Interior Department.

Lewis W. Scanland

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

Lizzie Wright Owen

L. M. Pearlman.

Maj. G. W. Candee.

Margaret A. Blake

Mescalero Indian Reservation. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting draft of a bill providing for the payment of improvements made by settlers on the lands of the Mescalero Indian Reservation, in the Territory of New Mexico.

Message from the President of the United States, returning Senate bill 2281, granting to railroads right of way through the Indian reservation in Northern Montana, with his objections thereto.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to legislation for the Chippewa Indians in Minnesota.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to legislation in behalf of certain Cherokee Indians.

Message from the President of the United States transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to proposed legislation for the relief of the Omaha Indians.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the payment of certain money to the Eastern Cherokee Indians.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the purchase of a tract of land in Oregon for an Indian training school.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the sale of certain land of the Sac and Fox Indians in Nebraska.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the use of certain funds for the benefit of the Indians on whose account they were covered into the Treasury.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to trial of Indians committing certain crimes

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior with draft of a proposed amendment to the act ratifying an agreement with the Crow Indians.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to providing for an agent for the Winnebago Indians

Message from the President of the United States transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to sale of the Sac and Fox and Iowa Indian Reservations.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior relative to the use of funds for the subsistence of certain Northern Cheyenne Indians.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a report of the Secretary of State relative to the frontier line between Alaska and British Columbia.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to an appropriation for the Miami Indians

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution, January 5, 1886, letter of the Secretary of the Interior, with copies of reports of government directors Union Pacific Railroad Company.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of June 18, 1886, information regarding appointments in the several executive departments.

Mexican Treaty of January 20, 1883.

Miami Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, concerning moneys alleged to have been improperly taken from the funds of the Miami Indians of Indiana and Kansas and paid to other Indians.

Military Instruction

Military quarters, Wyoming and Nebraska

Mineral resources of the United States

Mineral resources of the United States.

Mission Indians, State of California

Mrs. Maria Hunter.

Navajo Indian Reservation. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior for sinking artesian wells and constructing irrigating dams and reservoirs on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico

On the Case of A. Pleasanton

Ordnance account of Kansas.

Ordnance account with the Territory of Dakota

Oregon military wagon road. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, in response to a resolution of the House calling for information in relation to lands patented to the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road Company, the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain, and The Dalles Military Wagon Road Company.

Organization of the Territory of Oklahoma

Organization of the Territory of Oklahoma

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, transmitted to Congress, with the annual message of the President, December 6, 1886

Permanent and indefinite appropriations. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, concerning bill H. R. 3271, to repeal certain laws relating to permanent and indefinite appropriations

Prairie Band of Pottawatomie Indians in Kansas.

Punishment for larceny in Indian Territory

Railroads across Indian Territory

Railway through Indian Territory.

Railway through the Indian Territory.

Red Cloud and Red Leaf bands of Sioux Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting an estimate from the Secretary of the Interior of an appropriation to pay the Red Cloud and Red Leaf bands of Sioux Indians in Dakota for ponies taken by the military in 1876

Red Lake Indian Reservation.

Reimbursing interest on war loans

Removal of the Southern Utes

Repair of Military Quarters

Repealing Revised Statutes

Repeal of Laws Relating to Public Lands

Report : Claim of Certain Soldiers

Report : Claim of Colorado

Report : Claim of Dr. Price

Report : Claim of E. Northcutt and Brothers

Report : Claim of E. Sinclair

Report : Claim of Florida

Report : Claim of H. Shipley

Report : Claim of J. English

Report : Claim of J. Fletcher

Report : Claim of J. Hiatt and Co.

Report : Claim of J. Little and H. Williams

Report : Claim of Len-ne-pi-ze-qua

Report : Claim of P. Sinnott

Report : Claim of S. Marston

Report : Claim of the American Board of Com'rs for Foreign Missions

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