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South Carolina Conference Journal (Mec) 1873, Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference

South Carolina Conference 1866 Journal

No abstract provided.

Minnesota, White Earth Agency, N.D. Ca. 1873-1883, John The Baptist A. Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Minnesota

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Minnesota, Chippewa Agency, White Earth Reservation, 1873, John The Baptist A. Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Minnesota

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Minnesota, General Correspondence, 1873-1874, John The Baptist A. Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Minnesota

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Washington Territory, Fort Vancouver, St. James Mission, 1873-1874, John The Baptist A. Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Washington

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Alaska, General Correspondence, 1873, John The Baptist Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Alaska

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Wisconsin, La Pointe Agency, 1873-1874, John The Baptist A. Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Wisconsin

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Kansas, General Correspondence, 1873, John The Baptist A. Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Kansas

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Michigan, General Correspondence, 1873-1874, John The Baptist A. Brouillet, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Michigan

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

Tax Receipt, January 12, 1872

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by [Henry] Glover. Signed by [J.N. Teagan], County Treasurer.

Narrative Of My Captivity Among The Sioux Indians, Fanny Kelly

Electronic Texts in American Studies

THE summer of 1864 marked a period of unusual peril to the daring pioneers seeking homes in the far ·West. Following upon the horrible massacres in Minnesota in 1862, and the subsequent chastisements inflicted by the expeditions under Generals Sully and Sibley in 1863, whereby the Indians were driven from the then western borders of civilization, in Iowa, Minnesota, and the white settlements of Dakota, in the Missouri Valley, the great emigrant trails to Idaho and Montann became the scene of fresh outrages; and, from the wild, almost inaccessible nature of the country, pursuit and punishment were impossible.

I was …

California,General Correspondence, 1872-1874, William M. Hughes, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

California

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

South Carolina Conference Journal (Mec) 1872, Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference

South Carolina Conference 1866 Journal

No abstract provided.

River News, Portsmouth Times

Indian Head Rock Project

An article in the Portsmouth Times mentioning the Indian Head Rock from August 26, 1871.

Property Tax Receipt, February 29, 1871

Glover Family Papers, 1871-1937

Document: Payment for property taxes, Barnwell County, South Carolina. Paid by Henry Glover. Signed by C. Ehrhardt, County Treasurer.

Durfee & Peck. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Inclosing An Account Of Messrs. Durfee & Peck, For Rent Of Agency Buildings At Fort Berthold. February 11, 1871, United States Congress, Us House Of Representatives, Us Department Of The Interior, Us Department Of The Interior, Office Of Indian Affairs

US Government Documents Related to Indigenous Nations

This letter, dated February 11, 1871 from United States (US) Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano to Speaker of the US House of Representatives James G. Blaine, also known as US House of Representatives Executive Document 115, transmits communications from US Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ely S. Parker, Dakota Territory Governor and ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs John A. Burbank, and D. W. Marsh, agent for the Leavenworth, Kansas firm of Durfee & Peck, from whom the Upper Missouri Indian Agency has been renting the Fort Berthold Agency buildings for the sum of $3,500 per year. The agent for Durfee …

Don't Be Angry With Me Darling / Music By H. P. Danks; Words By W. L. Gardner, H. P. Danks, W. L. Gardner, Charles W. Harris (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

No abstract provided.

South Carolina Conference Journal (Mec) 1870, Methodist Episcopal Church. South Carolina Conference

South Carolina Conference 1866 Journal

No abstract provided.

Executive Order Of 1870, Ulysses S. Grant, George L. Hartstuff, Samuel A. Wainwright, Ely S. Parker, Jacob D. Cox

US Government Documents Related to Indigenous Nations

This Executive Order, issued by President Ulysses S. Grant on April 12, 1870, established the Fort Berthold Reservation. In addition to Grant’s Executive Order, this document includes a series of letters, proposals, and endorsements for the creation of a reservation for the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. Importantly, this document also contains the original map outlining the proposed boundaries and the president’s diagram which significantly reducing the size of the reservation.

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

US Government Documents Related to Indigenous Nations

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 …

Carte-De-Visite Photograph: "2 Headed Girl, Millie Crissie," No Date., J. H. Fitzgibbon

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Conjoined twins Millie and Christine McKoy in full portrait. Date of photograph unknown (likely ca. 1870, subjects died 1912).

Crossing The Ferry / Words By Bobby Newcomb, Bobby Newcomb, Jno. L. Peters (New York)

Sheet Music, 1834-1899

No abstract provided.

A Singular Stone, Gallipolis Journal

Indian Head Rock Project

An article published in the Gallipolis Journal on an artifact found near the Indian Head Rock from November 26, 1868.

Treaty Of Fort Laramie 1868, Nathaniel G. Taylor, William T. Sherman, William S. Harney, John B. Sanborn, Samuel F. Tappan, Christopher C. Augur, Alfred H. Terry, John B. Henderson, Andrew Johnson

US Government Documents Related to Indigenous Nations

This treaty, signed on April 29, 1868, between the United States government and the Sioux and Arapaho Nations, established the Great Sioux Reservation, promised the Sioux would own the Black Hills in perpetuity, and set aside the country north of the North Platte River and east of the summits of the Big Horn Mountains as unceded Indian territory. Furthermore, the U.S. government pledged to close the Bozeman Trail forts and provide food, clothing, and annuities to the tribes, given that they agreed to relinquish all rights to live outside the reservation.

Indian Affairs In Dakota. Memorial And Resolution Of The Legislative Assembly Of The Territory Of Dakota Relative To Indian Affairs In Said Territory, United States House Of Representatives, Territory Of Dakota Legislative Assembly, Geo. I. Foster, A. J. Faulk, Enos Stutsman, P. H. Halnan

US Government Documents Related to Indigenous Nations

This "Memorial and Resolution" of the legislature of the Territory of Dakota, referred to the United States (US) House of Representatives Committee on Indian Affairs and ordered to be printed January 28, 1868, states the position of the Legislative Assembly of Dakota Territory regarding several matters involving relations and bureaucratic arrangement between the US government and local tribes and Dakota Territory and those tribes, and argues for Dakota Territory playing a greater role in the management of the tribal affairs and the administration of US obligations, including procurement and transportation of "Indian goods."

Among changes argued for in the document …

Treaty Of Little Arkansas - October 17, 1865, United States Government

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Ratified Indian Treaty 342: Apache, Cheyenne, and Arapaho - Little Arkansas River, Kansas, October 17, 1865

Testimony Of Colonel J. M. Chivington April 26, 1865, United States Government

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Testimony of Colonel J. M. Chivington April 26, 1865

Congressional Testimony Of Mr. John S. Smith Washington, March 14, 1865, United States Government

John Evans Study: Supporting Materials

Congressional Testimony of Mr. John S. Smith Washington, March 14, 1865

Six Military And Patriotic Illustrated Songs. Elaborately Colored. In A Novel Form. Series No. 1., Charles Magnus, John F. Poole, W. J. Florence, George P. Holt, Daniel Decatur Emmett, Tony Pastor, Dan Bryant

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

This publication contains the lyrics to six songs, each accompanied by a color illustration, and an advertisement on the last page.

1. Our Grandfathers' Days

2. The Captain with his Whiskers

3. Want — A Substitute

4. Dixie's Land

5. Young American and ould Ireland

6. Kingdom Coming

Letter From James Harrison To James A. Seddon, December 23, 1864., James Harrison

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Harrison, colonel in the Confederate Army, suggests to the Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon the establishment of an alliance with Comanche Native Americans to disrupt United States trade and government routes in the West.