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Stray Bands Of Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting A Copy Of A Letter From The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, In Relation To The Removal Of Stray Bands Of Pottawatomie And Winnebago Indians In Wisconsin.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Stray Bands of Indians. [1425] Removal of Pottawatomies and Winnebagoes from Wisconsin to Kansas and Nebraska respectively.

Encroachments Upon Osage Indian Lands. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior In Relations To The Encroachment Of White Settlers Upon The Lands Of The Osage Indians In Kansas

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Encroachments on Osage Lands. [1418] By white settlers in Kansas.

Expedition Against Piegan Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior In Answer To The Resolution Of The House Of March 4, 1870, In Relation To The Late Expedition Against The Piegan Indians

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Executive Against the Piegan Indians. [1418] Campaign, in Montana, against the Piegan tribe of Blackfeet Indians during 1870.

Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution, Showing The Operations, Expenditures, And Condition Of The Institution For The Year 1869

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution. [1460] For 1869; research related to the American Indian photographic portraits of Indians.

Flathead Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting A Copy Of A Letter From The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, Submitting An Estimate Of Appropriation For The Purchase Of Mills And Construction Of Buildings For The Benefit Of The Flathead Indians, To Replace Those Destroyed By Fire

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Letter on Flathead Indians. [1418] Appropriation for reconstruction of buildings destroyed by fire.

Fur-Seal Fisheries Of Alaska. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior In Answer To A Resolution Of The House, Of February 9, 1870, Transmitting A Copy Of A Portion Of Vincent Colyer's Report Relating To The Fur-Seal Fisheries Of Alaska

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Special Agent Colyer's Report on Fur Seal Fisheries in Alaska. [1418] Aleut Indians, on islands off Alaska, hunt seals, and sell their furs.

Appropriations Indian Service -- Fort Berthold Agency. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Recommending An Appropriation To Pay Outstanding Indebtedness On Account Of The Indian Service At Fort Berthold Indian Agency. February 18, 1870. -- Referred To The Committee On Appropriations And Ordered To Be Printed, United States Congress

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This Executive Document, dated February 18, 1870 consists of a letter from the United States Secretary of the Interior J. D. Cox recommending "An appropriation to pay outstanding indebtedness on account of the Indian Service at Fort Berthold Indian agency." The letter includes a communication from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ely. S. Parker detailing "services rendered and supplies furnished for and on account of the Indian service at the Fort Berthold agency, Dakota Territory" totaling $63,203.05.

Also included is the text of two letters from US Indian Agent Mahlon Wilkinson in which he explains that, due to frequent attacks from …

Establishment Of Indian Tribes. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting Letter From The Associated Executive Committee Of Friends On Indian Affairs, Relative To The Location And Establishment Of The Kiowas, Comanches, And Apache Indians

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Establishment of Indian Tribes. [1417] Location and establishment of Kiowas, Comanches, Apaches, Arapahoes, Sacs, Foxes, and Cheyennes on lands in Indian Territory.

Letter Of The Secretary Of The Interior Communicating An Estimate Of Funds Required To Defray The Necessary Expenses Of A General Council Of Certain Indians In The Indian Territory, As Provided By Treaties With The Cherokees; Creeks, Seminoles, Choetaws, And Chickasaws.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

General Council of Certain Indians. 9 Feb. SED 36, 41-2, v1, 3p. [1405] Funds required to defray expenses of a general council guaranteed under treaties with the Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws, and Chickasaws. 22. Report on Expenses

Expenses For Troops In Montana Territory

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report on Expenses for Troops in Montana. 9 Feb. SR 31, 41-2, v1, 4p. [1409] Called to fight an Indian war which never occurred.

Appropriations For Indian Interpreters. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting Copy Of Report From Commissioner Of Indian Affairs, Relative To Deficiencies In Appropriations For The Pay Of Indian Interpreters

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Appropriations for Indian Interpreters. [1417] On deficiencies in the appropriation for the year ending 30 June 1871.

Letter Of The Secretary Of The Interior, Communicating, In Obedience To Law, An Inventory Of The Property Belonging To The United States In The Department Of The Interior, December 1, 1870.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Property in the Interior Dept. 5 Dec. SED 1, 41-3, v1, 3p. [1440] Articles in the OIA.

Message Of The President Of The United States Communicating, In Compliance With A Resolution Of The Senate Of December 8, 1869, Information Relating To The Presence Of The Honorable William Mcdougall At Pembina, In Dakota Territory, And The Opposition By The Inhabitants Of Selkirk Settlement To His Assumption Of The Office Of Governor Of The Northwest Territory.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Affairs on the Red River of the North. 3 Feb. SED 33, 41-2, v1, 52p. [1405] Transfer of the Northwest Territory from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada; Canadian governor driven into the U.S. by inhabitants of that territory, including Indian forces and halfbreeds.

Claims Of Delaware Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting An Abstract Of A Report Of The United States Indian Agent Upon Claims For Stock Stolen From The Delaware Indians Since 1854, Provided For In Treaty Of July 4, 1866, With Said Tribe

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Claims of Delaware Indians. [1417] For stock stolen from them since 1854; under the treaty of 4 July 1866.

Martha A. Estill

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

R-P of M. Estill et al. 2 Feb. SR 20,41-2, v1, 3p. [1409] Supplies to California Indians during 1851.

Mr. Harlan : Report

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report on Claims of the Delaware Indians. 2 Feb. SR 24, 41-2, v1, 1p. [1409] Stock stolen since 1854; payment under treaty of 4 July 1866.

Memorial Of Members Of Black Bob's Band Of Shawnee Indians, Against Any Attempt To Force Their People To Break Up Their Tribal Organization, And Against A Division Of Their Lands.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Mem. of Members of Black Bob's Band of Shawnees. 1 Feb. SMD 49, 41-2, v1, 17p. [1408] Against break-up of the tribal organization by division of lands in severalty; sale of said lands to settiers.

Kansas Claims. (To Accompany H.R. 112.) Papers Relative To The Claim Of The State Of Kansas For Claims Against The Government.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Paper on the Claims of Kansas. 28 Jan. HMD 36,41-2, v3, 16p. [1433] For expenses of the 1864 Indian expedition.

Management Of Indians In British America. Report On The Management Of The Indians In British North America By The British Government.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Report on Management of Indians in British America. 27 Jan. HMD 35, 41-2, v3, 38p. [1433] To discover why there have been no major Indian wars there, and why civilization is proceeding well; the "Six Nations" of Mohawks, Senecas, Cayugas, Oneidas, Onondagas, and Tuscaroras; populations increasing.

Appropriations For Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting Copy Of A Letter From The Secretary Of The Board Of Indian Commissioners In Relation To Appropriations For Indians

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Appropriations for Indians. [1417] Board of Indian Com'rs recommends liberal expenditures on education.

Estimates For Sisseton, Wahpeton, And Other Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Submitting Estimates Of Appropriations For Sisseton, Wahpeton, Santee Sioux Indians, At Lac Traverse And Devil's Lake, Dakota

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Estimates of Appropriations for Sioux. [1417] For Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Santee Sioux at Lake Traverse and Devil's Lake, Dakota.

Hints To Young Lawyers. An Address Delivered To The Senior Class Of The Law Department Of The University Of Michigan, Thomas M. Cooley

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Professor Cooley’s counsel to the gentlemen departing the Law Department: “To those of you who are about to bear away from this institution the certificate of its approbation, I have a few words to say in response to what I understand to be your desire, that my last address should be devoted to such hints of a practical character as may be of service to you in your professional career. The transition from the life of a student to that of a practicing lawyer is so great that it is not possible for one to be too well prepared by …

Letter Of The Secretary Of The Interior, Communicating A Report Of The Disbursements For The Maintenance Of Peace Among The Various Indian Tribes, Under Act Of April 10, 1869.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Disbursements for Indian Tribes. 13 Dec. SED 5, 41-2, v1, 2p. [1405] For the maintenance of peace; excess expenditures of the Indian Peace Commission; subsistence forSioux, Kiowas, Comanches, Apaches, Cheyennes, and Arapahoes; supplies for Plains Indians.

Letter Of The Secretary Of The Interior, Communicating A Statement Showing The Number Of Clerks Employed In That Department During The Last Fiscal Year, And The Amount Of Compensation Received By Each.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Employees in the Interior Dept. 7 Dec. SED 1, 41-2, v1, 14p. [1405] Year ending 30 June 1869; OIA.

Message Of The President Of The United States, With The Reports Of The Postmaster General And Of The Secretary Of The Navy, Communicated To The Two Houses Of Congress At The Beginning Of The Second Session Of The Forty-First Congress, 1869.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Grant. [1411-1414] A new policy towards the Indians (the "Quaker policy") as wards of the U.S., involving placement of all Indians on reservations, and the inducing of Indians to take their lands in severalty; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1412-1413); annual report of the Sec. of the Interior (Serial 1414); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1414); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1414), including formation of reservations, trust funds, and reports of Supts., agents, schools, and farms; etc.

Letter Of The Chief Clerk Of Court Of Claims, Communicating A Statement Of The Judgments Rendered In The Court Of Claims For The Year Ending December 6, 1869.

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Judgments in the Court of Claims. 6 Dec. SMD 2, 41-2, v1, 5p. [1408] Some cases relevant to Indian affairs.

Report Of The Secretary Of The Treasury On The State Of The Finances For The Year 1869

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Report of the Sec. of the Treasury. [1415] Year ending 30 June 1869; Indian expenses.

Report Of The Secretary Of War, Being Part Of The Message And Documents Communicated To The Two Houses Of Congress At The Beginning Of The Second Session Of The Forty-First Congress : Annual Report Of Secretary Of War, 1869

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Grant. 6 Dec. HED 1, 41-2, v1-3, 2771p. [ 1411-1414] A new policy towards the Indians (the "Quaker policy") as wards of the U.S., involving placement of all Indians on reservations, and the inducing of Indians to take their lands in severalty; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1412-1413); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serial 1414); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1414); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1414), including formation of reservations, trust funds, and reports of Supts., agents, schools, and farms; etc.

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 Second Session Of The Forty-First Congresss: Report Of Secretary Of Interior, 1869

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Annual Message to Congress with Documents; Pres. Grant. 6 Dec. HED 1, 41-2, v1-3, 2771p. [ 1411-1414] A new policy towards the Indians (the "Quaker policy") as wards of the U.S., involving placement of all Indians on reservations, and the inducing of Indians to take their lands in severalty; annual report of the Sec. of War (Serials 1412-1413); annual report of the Sec. of Interior (Serial 1414); annual report of the Gen. Land Office (Serial 1414); annual report of the CIA (Serial 1414), including formation of reservations, trust funds, and reports of Supts., agents, schools, and farms; etc.

Suppressing Indian Hostilities In Utah. Letter From The Secretary Of War Transmitting Report Of Expenses For Suppressing Indian Hostilities In Utah

American Indian and Alaskan Native Documents in the Congressional Serial Set: 1817-1899

Suppressing Indian Hostilites in Utah. [1416] Expenses of supressing Ute and Navajo hostilies during 1865-1867.