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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 1897 1897

Certain state bonds belonging to the United States. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a further reply to the House resolution of June 6, 1896, in relation to the payment of certain state bonds and stocks now belonging to the United States under the provisions of the Indian appropriation Act of August 15, 1894, with documents accompanying.

Chickasaw freedmen.

Chippewa Indians in Minnesota

Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting communication from the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, submitting agreement between the United States Commissioners to negotiate with the Five Civilized Tribes, and the Commissioners on the part of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians

Claim of Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands of Sioux or Dakota Indians

Claims allowed by accounting officers.

Claims allowed by accounting officers. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims, amounting to $114,876.81, allowed by officers of the Treasury Department.

Commission to negotiate with Crow, Flathead, and other Indians. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting estimate of appropriation for services of a commission to negotiate with the Crow, Flathead, and other Indians.

Condition of the work in the departments. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting communications relating to the work in the offices of the Supervising Architect, Auditor for the War Department, Comptroller of the Treasury, Treasurer of the United States, Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service, and the Light-House Board, and the condition of work in the departments.

Congress of the Indian tribes of the United States.

Consideration of House bill no. 16.

Correspondence between the Cherokee Nation of Indians and the Dawes Commission.

Creek Tribe or Nation of Indians.

David F. Day. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior relating to the reimbursement of David F. Day.

Deficiency appropriation bill.

Deficiency appropriations.

Deficiency estimates. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required by the several departments of the government to complete the service for the year 1897 and prior years, and for the Postal Service.

Delinquent officers, 1896. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports from the accounting officers of the Treasury Department giving lists of delinquent officers during the year 1896.

Department of the Interior. Water-supply and irrigation papers of the United States Geological Survey. No. 2.

Digest of decisions relating to Indian affairs. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate for an appropriation for compiling a digest of certain decisions and opinions relating to Indian affairs.

Disposition of certain lands in Minnesota.

Disposition of lands of Choctaw Indians.

Eastern Judicial District of Texas.

E. C. Chirouse.

Elizabeth S. Roberts.

Eliza J. Holman.

Extensions of time for completion of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway.

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1893-'94.

Fifty-fifth Congress. Official Congressional Directory, for the use of the United States Congress, prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing.

Free homesteads on public lands.

Galveston and Great Northern Railway Company.

General deficiency bill.

George M. Anderson.

Gila Valley, Globe and Northern Railway Company.

Gray's Battalion of Arkansas Volunteers.

Harriet J. Hutter.

Hattie A. Phillips.

Homestead settlers on the Great Sioux Reservation in Nebraska

Important serial documents published by the government and how to find them.

Index to the subjects of the documents and reports and to the committees, senators, and representatives presenting them with tables of the same in numerical order.

Indian appropriation bill.

Indian appropriation bill.

Indian citizens

Indian depredation claims. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a list of judgments in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases, made since December 7, 1896.

Investigation of affairs at the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservation. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 5, 1897, letters and reports pertaining to the investigation of affairs at the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation

Isaac Whitenberg.

James L. M'Kinney.

Jerusha Sturgis.

John W. Porterfield.

Judgments in Indian depredation cases.

Jurisdiction of United States Court for Western District of Arkansas. Letter from the Attorney-General, calling attention to a question of jurisdiction in the United States Court for the Western District of Arkansas, and recommending legislation.

Kansas, Oklahoma Central and Southwestern Railway Company.

Klamath Boundary Commission.

Legal representatives of Eli Ayres.

Legal representatives of George McDougall.

Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation bill.

Letter from the Acting Attorney-General, transmitting a list of judgments rendered in favor of claimants and against the United States and defendant Indian tribes, and not heretofore appropriated for.

Letter from the Secretary of Agriculture, transmitting a report on agriculture in Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a report of United States Indian Inspector J. George Wright on the subject of the Montezuma Valley Canal and its capacity for irrigating land in the Southern Ute Indian Reservation.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the appropriation "contingent expenses, Department of the Interior," for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897.

Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1897, under the appropriations for "International Exchanges, National Museum, Astrophysical Observatory, and National Zoological Park.".

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a combined statement of the receipts and expenditures of the government for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior recommending an increase in the estimate of the appropriation for the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of an appropriation for the survey of lands in the Indian Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting urgent deficiency estimates relating to the Indian Service.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1899.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of deficiencies in appropriations required to meet the urgent demands of the government for the service of the current and prior fiscal years.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting reports from the accounting officers of the Treasury giving lists of officers who have been delinquent in the rendition of their accounts during the fiscal year 1897, stating causes, etc.; also giving the names of such officers as are delinquent in the payment of balances due the United States.

Margaret C. McKay.

Margaret Custer Calhoun.

Mary Ann Lafferty.

Memorial from the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and accompanying copy of a memorial from the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians

Mississippi Choctaws.

Mississippi Choctaws.

Mixed-blood Indians.

Mrs. Elizabeth S. Roberts.

Mrs. Lucy Alexander Payne.

Mrs. Martha Frank.

Mrs. Martha Frank.

Mrs. Selena McKay.

Naalem Band of Tillamook Indians of Oregon.

Official Congressional Directory, for the use of the United States Congress.

Ogden Land Company.

Ogden Land Company. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report and an accompanying letter from Philip C. Garrett, of Philadelphia, Indian Commissioner, relating to negotiations concerning the Ogden Land Company and Indian reservations in New York.

Oil leases of the Seneca Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of April 29, 1897, report relative to the oil leases of the Seneca Indians

Omaha Northern Railway Company.

Osage Indian funds.

Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, with the annual message of the President transmitted to Congress, 1897.

Payment of certain bonds and stocks owned by the United States.

Payment to Cherokee freedmen. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of May 25, 1897, copies of all papers in relation to the payment and of the correspondence in connection therewith, showing the reason why the payment to the Cherokee freedmen was suspended.

Pensions to survivors of certain Indian wars.

Pensions to survivors of Mexican and Indian wars and their widows.

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