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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 1898 1898

Contingent expenses of Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the appropriation "Contingent Expenses, Department of the Interior.".

Contingent expenses of Interior Department. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a statement of the expenditures of the appropriation "Contingent Expenses, Department of the Interior.".

Criminal and penal laws relating to Alaska, etc. Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting a special report made by the Commission to Revise and Codify the Criminal and Penal laws of the United States concerning the criminal and penal laws relating to the District of Alaska, etc.

Daniel J. Melvin.

Daniel J. Smith.

Darius B. Randall.

Deficiency appropriation bill.

Denison, Bonham and New Orleans Railway Company.

Determination of rights of certain Indians.

Education in Alaska. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 19, 1898, copy of a letter from the Commissioner of Education relative to moneys heretofore appropriated by Congress for educational purposes in the Territory of Alaska and the manner in which such appropriations have been expended.

Education of Indian children in certain schools. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of February 2, 1898, a report prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs communicating certain information relating to the education of Indian children in the schools named in said resolution.

Elizabeth Rogers.

Eliza Houghton.

Eliza M. Miller.

Eva W. Brannan.

Examination of the civil service, and inquiry as to certain discharges at the South Omaha Bureau of Animal Industry.

Expenditures of the Smithsonian Institution. Letter from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, transmitting a detailed statement of the expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, under the appropriations for "International Exchanges," "North American Ethnology," "National Museum," "Astrophysical Observatory," and "National Zoological Park.".

Federal jail, Fort Smith, Ark

Fifteenth report of the United States Civil Service Commission.

Fort Dodge Military Reservation.

Fort Meade, S. Dak.

Fort Meade, S. Dak.

Fort Smith and Western Coal Railroad Company.

Fourteenth report of the United States Civil Service Commission.

Francis Shetais, alias Frank Stay.

Free homesteads.

Gainesville, McAlester and St. Louis Railway Company.

Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg.

George Gamache.

Graves of American soldiers in the Maumee Valley.

Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company.

Henrietta Fowler.

Homesteads, etc., in Alaska.

Increase of minimum pensions.

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 depredations.

Indians of Fort Hall Indian Reservation.

Irrigation of certain parts of the Montezuma Valley. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, relative to the irrigation of that part of the Montezuma Valley lying within the boundaries of the Southern Ute Indian Reservation

"Itewayaka," or "One-Armed Jim.".

James H. Preston.

James J. Wheeler.

James Q. Shirley.

John C. Wagoner.

John H. Koogler. Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General submitting an estimate of appropriation to pay John H. Koogler.

Joseph Tousaint.

Judgments rendered against the United States. 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.

Judgments rendered by Court of Claims in 1898

Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea Indians

Kaskaskia, Peoria, Piankeshaw, and Wea Indians.

Kettle River Valley Railway Company.

Killing of a woman in Oklahoma by Seminole Indians, etc. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1898, copy of telegram and correspondence relative to the killing of a woman in Oklahoma Territory by Seminole Indians and the burning to death of two Seminole Indians by a mob in said territory.

Killing of Mrs. Laird by Seminole Indians. Letter from the Acting Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of January 20, 1898, copies of all papers and correspondence in Department of Justice relating to the killing of Mrs. Laird in the Seminole Nation, and the subsequent burning to death of M'Geisy and Sampson by a mob.

Lands necessary for public improvements in cities and towns in Indian Territory.

Laws for the Indian Territory.

Leasing of certain lands in the Uncompahgre Reservation.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Interior, transmitting certain petitions and communications, with recommendations in regard to the education of white and negro children in the Indian Territory.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting an estimate of appropriation for payment to boards on town-site entries in Oklahoma.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 17, 1898, a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims not heretofore reported to Congress.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 17, 1898, list of claims allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted.

Letter from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations required by the several departments of the government to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for prior years.

Letter from the Attorney-General, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of June 17, 1898, a list of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in favor of claimants in Indian depredation cases since December 6, 1897.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, calling attention to certain specified facts in connection with recent dealings of the government with the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and the Medawakanton and Wahpakoota Bands of Dakota or Sioux Indians.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting a statement of the disbursements of the fund of the Creek Nation, as provided by the act approved June 7, 1897

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting certain agreements with Rosebud and Lower Brule Indians for a cession of lands and modification of existing treaties, together with drafts of bills relating thereto

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a copy of a draft of a joint resolution "to postpone the opening of the Uncompahgre Indian Reservation in the State of Utah," with a copy of a communication from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting a report of the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes relative to the Mississippi Choctaws.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting, in response to resolution of the Senate of May 23, 1898, copy of a report touching the colony of natives on Annette Island, Alaska, prepared by Dr. William Duncan, together with copies of the files and records of the department relating to Annette Island and its occupancy by the Metlakahtla Indians and Alaskan natives.

Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting letters from the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in relation to the clause in the Indian appropriation bill (H. R. 6896) which contemplates the allowance of free homes on certain lands acquired from various Indian tribes, etc.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in response to resolution of the Senate of April 1, 1898, relative to the enforcement of the statute prohibiting the importation, manufacture, and sale of intoxicating liquors, etc., in the District of Alaska.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Acting Attorney-General requesting a further appropriation to pay certain judgments of the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General submitting an estimate of appropriation for salaries and expenses of United States courts, Indian Territory.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a copy of a communication from the Attorney-General submitting a schedule of deficiencies in appropriations needed for sundry miscellaneous expenses.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a letter from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an estimate of deficiency for Army and Navy pensions.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a schedule of claims allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department since the report of January 6, 1898; also, for amounts due the Union and Kansas Pacific Railroad Companies and the Central Branch, Union Pacific Railroad Company.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required by the several departments of the government to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, and for prior years, and for the Postal Service.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting estimates of appropriations required for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, for the consideration of Congress, a copy of a communication from the Secretary of the Interior submitting an amended provision in relation to the Commission of the Five Civilized Tribes.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting schedules of claims allowed by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department up to and including December 31, 1897, under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted, or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section 5 of the Act of June 20, 1874.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting supplemental estimates of appropriations to complete the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898.

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting the draft of a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to collect the amount of certain nonpaying state stocks and bonds now belonging to the United States.

Letters from Cabinet officers relative to civil service rules. Letters from the Secretaries of the Treasury, of the Department of Agriculture, and of the Department of State, in response to resolution of the Senate of December 18, 1897, relative to changes or amendments to the present civil service rules.

Liabilities of registers and receivers. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting, for the consideration of the Senate, a communication from the Auditor for the Interior Department upon the subject of "Liabilities of registers and receivers on their bonds for the proceeds arising from the sales of Indian lands".

Lilla Thomasson.

Lucy Ord Mason.

Maj. Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb.

Map of Alaska showing known gold-bearing rocks with descriptive text containing sketches of the geography, geology, and gold deposits and routes to the gold fields.

Martha E. Huddleston

Mary E. Taylor.

Matthew B. Nale.

Message from the President of the United States, transmitting report of the Secretary of the Interior, relative to resolution of the Senate of June 10, 1898, requesting the President to make such arrangements as may be necessary to secure the attendance at the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition, to be held at Omaha, Nebr., of representatives of certain Indian tribes which have emigrated from the territory now of the United States to Canada.

Mille Lac Indian Reservation

Mille Lac Indian Reservation.

Mission Indians of California. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, transmitting draft of a bill to amend an act entitled "An act for the relief of the Mission Indians in the State of California," together with copy of Indian office report relating to the same.

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