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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 1839 1839

Cherokee Indians residing in North Carolina

Document in relation to the subjugation of the hostile Indians in Florida

Document relating to the bill (S. 160) "to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of that part of Florida which is now overrun and infested by marauding bands of hostile Indians."

Document relating to the bill "to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of that part of Florida which is now overrun and infested by marauding bands of hostile Indians."

Documents relating to the bill (S. 160) "to provide for the armed occupation and settlement of that part of Florida which is now overrun and infested by marauding bands of hostile Indians

Documents relating to the claim of Colonel A. G. Morgan, of Missouri, for military services in Florida

Documents relating to the claim of the executor of John J. Bulow, Jr. to be indemnified for property destroyed by the hostile Indians in Florida

Documents relating to the claims of Andrew J. Johnson and Samuel M. Love, for payment for horses lost by them while in the military service of the United States

Documents relating to the subject of ceding to the State of Tennessee the vacant, unappropriated, and refuse lands within that state

Extracts from the message of Governor Call to the Territorial Legislature of Florida, January 11, 1839, in relation to the Indian hostilities in that Territory, and the means of terminating them

In Senate of the United States. Motion in relation to the payment of claims for Indian depredations

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the funds of the Chickasaw Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the estimate of appropriations necessary for the service of the year 1840.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the information required by a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 28th January, 1839, in relation to payments made at the Treasury for the years 1835 to 1838, inclusive.

Letter from the Secretary of War, in relation to the necessity of additional clerks in the Office of Indian Affairs

Letter from the Secretary of War, on the subject of the expenses of making the disbursements of the Indian Department

Letter from the Secretary of War to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs, recommending the removal of the Swan Creek and Black River bands of Chippewa Indians

Memorial of a number of the Chief Warriors and Chiefs of the Six and Seneca Nations of Indians, praying that the action of the Senate on the treaty with the Seneca Indians may be suspended, &c., &c..

Memorial of Hezekiah L. Thistle, praying that certain communications addressed by him to the Secretary of War, and Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate, on the subject of expelling the hostile Indians from Florida, may be printed

Memorial of the General Assembly of Alabama, praying that the people of that state be indemnified for depredations commited on their property by the hostile Creek Indians in 1836

Memorial of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, praying that the title of the Menomonie Indians to lands within that territory may be extinguished

Memorial of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, praying the passage of a law to authorize the enrolment of a number of volunteers for the defence of that Territory

Message from the President of the United States, communicating additional information in relation to the disputed boundary line between the State of Missouri and territory of Iowa.

Message from the President of the United States, in relation to the condition of the Seminole Indians, who have emigrated

Message from the President of the United States, relating to the dispute between the State of Missouri and the Territory of Iowa, respecting the boundary line between the said state and territory.

Motion submitted by Mr. Linn, in relation to the occupation and settlement of the Oregon Territory.

Negroes, &c., captured from Indians in Florida, &c

On the Relief of F. Laventure et. al. [

Petition of a number of citizens of Illinois, praying the establishment of a land office at "Kishwaukee," in that state

Petition of a number of citizens of the State of Alabama, praying to be allowed pre-emption rights to any unlocated public lands, in lieu of others of which they have been deprived

Report : Claim of Choctaw Indians

Report : Claim of G. Humphreys

Report : Claim of J. Baldridge

Report : Claim of J. Baldridge

Report : Claim of J. Bulow, jr.

Report : Claim of J. Dukes

Report : Claim of J. Richey

Report : Claim of J. Scott

Report : Claim of R. Robertson

Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, communicating a report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, showing the operations of that office since the 17th December, 1838.

Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, on the State of the finances; also an estimate of appropriations for the year 1840.

Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a statement showing the annual receipts and expenditures of the Government since the year 1817

Report from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a statement showing the number of acres in the states of Alabama and Mississippi, embraced in the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek

Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the payment of the claims of the Alabama volunteers, for horses lost in the service of the United States in the late campaign against the Seminole Indians

Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, in relation to the termination of the commission for the adjudication of claims under the Cherokee Treaty of December 29, 1835, and the expenses of the same

Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, a statement of the expenses incurred in negotiating and concluding the Cherokee Treaty of December 29, 1835

Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with the act of May 1, 1820, a statement of the appropriations and expenditures for that department during the year 1838.

Report from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in obedience to the act of June 30, 1834, a statement of all persons employed in the service of the Indian Department during the year 1838

Report on Indian Depredation Claims

Report : Petition of J. Hernandez

Report : Petition of J. Kennedy

Report : Petition of J. McCartney

Report : Petition of M. Hagan

Report : Petition of R. Banks

Report : Petition of W. Smith

Reservations of land under fourteenth article of Treaty of 1830 with the Choctaw Indians.

Submissions from 1840 1840

Alexander Watson

Arms for inhabitants of Iowa

Arthur R. Owens

Benjamin Murphy

Boundary of Missouri and Iowa

Burlington and Des Moines transportation company

Captain James Hunter -- widow of

Charles Sumption

Chickasaw fund. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement of the funds of the Chickasaw Indians, as required by the act of 20th April, 1836.

David W. Sleeth

Doctor Wheeler Randall

Documents from War Department

Documents relating to the claims of certain companies of Missouri volunteers, for payment for their services in the years 1829 and 1836

Documents relating to the claims of Wallis and Arthur, and others, for compensation for rations furnished to, and the use of wagons, &c. by, the Missouri volunteers, who were called into the service of the United States, in 1836, against the Sac and Iowa Indians

Documents relating to the confirmation of the claim of Jonathan Carver to a tract of land

Documents relating to the construction of certain roads in the Territory of Iowa

Elisha Mooreland and others

Elisha Moreland and others

Estimates -- Florida War. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting estimates of appropriations for the continuance of the Florida War.

Estimates -- Indian Department -- for 1841. (To accompany bill H.R. no. 543.)

Exchange school lands granted to half-breed Sac and Fox Indians

Expenditures in suppressing Indian hostilities in Florida. Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting the information required by the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 7th of July last, in relation to the amount of expenditure in suppressing Indian hostilities in Florida, &c.

Finance and estimate of appropriations for 1841. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting his annual report on the State of the finances; also an estimate of appropriations for the year 1841.

General Duncan L. Clinch

General John Cocke

George Mayfield

George M. Bedinger

George W. Paschall

Hyacinth Lassel

Indians -- Cherokees.

Irwinton Academy, Alabama

James S. Calhoun

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