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Increase Of Minimum Pensions. Jan 1898

Increase Of Minimum Pensions.

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

Increase of Minimum Pensions. 31 Jan. SR 520, 55-2, v1, 2p. [3620] For service in Indian wars during 1832-42.


Argument For Free Homes. Jan 1898

Argument For Free Homes.

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

Argument for Free Homes. 31 Jan. SD 106, 55-2, v4, 11p. [3593] Free homesteads on lands ceded to the U.S. by Indians; focus is on Sioux lands.


Remonstrance Against Ratification Of Agreement With Seminole Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting, A Remonstrance Against The Ratification Of An Agreement Between The Commissioners Of The United States To Negotiate With The Five Civilized Tribes And The Commissioners Of The Seminole Nation, Concluded On The 16th Day Of December, 1897. Jan 1898

Remonstrance Against Ratification Of Agreement With Seminole Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting, A Remonstrance Against The Ratification Of An Agreement Between The Commissioners Of The United States To Negotiate With The Five Civilized Tribes And The Commissioners Of The Seminole Nation, Concluded On The 16th Day Of December, 1897.

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

Remonstrance Against Ratification of the Seminole Agreement. 31 Jan. SD 105, 55-2, v4, 4p. [3593] Adopted at a mass convention of Seminoles; agreement dated 16 Dec. 1897.


Branch Of National Soldiers' Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers At Hot Springs, S. Dak. Jan 1898

Branch Of National Soldiers' Home For Disabled Volunteer Soldiers At Hot Springs, S. Dak.

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

Soldier's Home at Hot Springs, South Dakota. 27 Jan. SR 513, 55-2, v1, 11p. [3620] The Springs were used as a resort by the Indians in the Black Hills.


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. Jan 1898

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.

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

Violence in Oklahoma. 28 Jan. SD 99 (pts. 1-3), 55-2, v4, 12p. [3593] Woman killed by Seminole Indians; two Seminole men killed by a mob of whites.


James Q. Shirley. Jan 1898

James Q. Shirley.

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

R-C of J. Shirley. 26 Jan. SR 501, 55-2, v1, 1p. [3620] Lands incorporated into an Indian reservation in Idaho.


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. Jan 1898

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.

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

Violence in Oklahoma. 27 Jan. SD 98, 55-2, v4, 4p. [3593] Woman killed by Seminole Indians; two Seminoles killed by a mob.


Maj. Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb. Jan 1898

Maj. Gen. Alexander Stewart Webb.

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

Case of Maj. Gen. Webb. 25 Jan, SR 495, 55-2, v1, 4p. [3620] Seminole war; 1856; Florida.


Choctaw And Chickasaw Freedmen. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting, In Response To Resolution Of The Senate Of December 18, 1897, Copy Of A Communication From The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs Containing A Full Statement In Regard To The Choctaw And Chickasaw Freedmen Jan 1898

Choctaw And Chickasaw Freedmen. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting, In Response To Resolution Of The Senate Of December 18, 1897, Copy Of A Communication From The Commissioner Of Indian Affairs Containing A Full Statement In Regard To The Choctaw And Chickasaw Freedmen

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

Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedmen. [3593] Report on their status under various treaties; claims under the treaty of 1866.


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. Jan 1898

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.

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

Index to Documents and Reports. (no date) HD 96, 55-1, v17, 54p. [3587) For the 1st session, 55th Congress


Muscogee Coal And Railway Company. Jan 1898

Muscogee Coal And Railway Company.

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

Muscogee Coal and Railway Co. 22 Jan. HR 229, 55-2, v1, 2p. [3717] Right of way through Indian Territory.


Agreement With Uintah And White River Ute Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting An Agreement, Dated The 8th Instant, Made By The Commission With The Uintahs And White River Ute Indians, By Which They Consent To Sell, Cede, And Relinquish To The United States Necessary Lands For The Use Of Such Of The Uncompahgre Indians As May Conclude To Remove To The Uintah Indian Reservation Jan 1898

Agreement With Uintah And White River Ute Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting An Agreement, Dated The 8th Instant, Made By The Commission With The Uintahs And White River Ute Indians, By Which They Consent To Sell, Cede, And Relinquish To The United States Necessary Lands For The Use Of Such Of The Uncompahgre Indians As May Conclude To Remove To The Uintah Indian Reservation

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

Agreement with the Uintah and White River Ute Indians. [3593] Made 8 Jan. 1898; lands ceded to the U.S. for the use of the Uncompahgre Utes who wish to remove to the Uintah reservation; Utah.


Gulf, Colorado And Santa Fe Railway Company. Jan 1898

Gulf, Colorado And Santa Fe Railway Company.

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

Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway Co. 21 Jan. HR 219, 55-2, v1, 1p. [3717] Construction within Indian Territory.


Clarissa Collins Moore. Jan 1898

Clarissa Collins Moore.

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

R-P of C. Moore. 21 Jan. SR 481, 55-2, v1, 2p. [3620] Service in the Black Hawk and Seminole wars; Cass's treaty expedition of 1826.


Agreement With The Creek And Seminole Nations Jan 1898

Agreement With The Creek And Seminole Nations

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

Agreements with the Creeks and Seminoles. [3593] Creek agreement made 27 Sept. 1897; Seminole agreement made 16 Dec. 1897; both provide for allotment of land, for a restructuring of tribal government, etc.; Dawes Commission.


Amending Section 2139, Revised Statutes. Jan 1898

Amending Section 2139, Revised Statutes.

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

Amending Section 2139, Revised Statutes. 20 Jan. HR 201, 55-2, v1, 2p. [3717] Concerning sale of liquor to Indians on the six Indian reservations in New York.


Otoe And Missouria Reservation Lands Jan 1898

Otoe And Missouria Reservation Lands

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

Otoe and Missouria Reservation Lands. [3620] Revision and adjustment of sales of these lands in Kansas; confirmation of land titles.


Santee Sioux Of Nebraska And Flandreau Sioux Of South Dakota. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting A Report Concerning The Santee Sioux Of Nebraska And Flandreau Sioux Of South Dakota, Formerly Known As A Confederacy Of The Medawakanton And Wahpakoota Bands Of Dakota Or Sioux Indians. Jan 1898

Santee Sioux Of Nebraska And Flandreau Sioux Of South Dakota. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting A Report Concerning The Santee Sioux Of Nebraska And Flandreau Sioux Of South Dakota, Formerly Known As A Confederacy Of The Medawakanton And Wahpakoota Bands Of Dakota Or Sioux Indians.

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

Report on the Santee and Flandreau Sioux. 17 Jan. SD 67,55-2, v3, 77p. [3592) Formerly the Medawakanton-Wahpakoota Confederacy; copies of treaties and agreements dated 1825, 1830, 1836, 1837, 1851, 1858, 1868, and 1876.


Agreement Between The Commission To The Five Civilized Tribes And Choctaw And Chickasaw Indians. Jan 1898

Agreement Between The Commission To The Five Civilized Tribes And Choctaw And Chickasaw Indians.

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

Agreement with the Choctaws and Chickasaws. [3592] Made 23 Apr. 1897; provides for allotment of lands, for a restructuring of tribal government, etc; Dawes Commission.


Sisseton And Wahpeton Bands Of Dakota Or Sioux Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting A Report Concerning The Sisseton And Wahpeton Bands Of Dakota Or Sioux Indians, In Conformity With The Requirements Of The Indian Appropriation Act Of June 7, 1897 Jan 1898

Sisseton And Wahpeton Bands Of Dakota Or Sioux Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting A Report Concerning The Sisseton And Wahpeton Bands Of Dakota Or Sioux Indians, In Conformity With The Requirements Of The Indian Appropriation Act Of June 7, 1897

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

Report on the Sisseton and Wahpeton Sioux. [3593] Copies of treaties and agreements dated 1830, 1836, 1851, 1858, 1867, and 1889.


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. Jan 1898

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.

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

Dealings with Certain Sioux Indians. 17 Jan. HD 228, 55-2, v51, 3p. [3679] Concerning funds due the Sisseton, Wahpeton, Medawakanton, and Wahpakoota bands of Sioux.


Offered And Unoffered Public Lands. Jan 1898

Offered And Unoffered Public Lands.

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

Offered and Unoffered Public Lands. 14 Jan. HR 130, 55-2, v1, 2p. [3717] Procedures which follow extinguishment of Indian title to land.


Nebraska, Kansas And Gulf Railway Company. Jan 1898

Nebraska, Kansas And Gulf Railway Company.

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

Nebraska, Kansas, and Gulf Railway Co. 14 Jan. HR 134, 55-2, v1, 1p. [3717] Right of way through Indian Territory.


Homesteads, Etc., In Alaska. Jan 1898

Homesteads, Etc., In Alaska.

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

Railroad Rights of Way in Alaska. 14 Jan. HR 137, 55-2, v1, 3p. [3717] Act to regulate railroad construction said not to apply to Indian reservation lands (section 7); act also concerns homestead entries.


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. Jan 1898

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.

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

Criminal and Penal Laws Relating to Alaska. 14 Jan. SD 60, 55-2, v3, 144p. [3592]


Agreement With The Five Civilized Tribes. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting Copy Of Agreement Between The United States Commissioners To Negotiate With The Five Civilized Tribes And The Commissioners On The Part Of The Seminole Nation Jan 1898

Agreement With The Five Civilized Tribes. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior, Transmitting Copy Of Agreement Between The United States Commissioners To Negotiate With The Five Civilized Tribes And The Commissioners On The Part Of The Seminole Nation

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

Agreement with the Seminole Nation. [3592] Made 16 Dec. 1897; provides for allotment, a restructuring of tribal government, etc.; Dawes Commission.


Fort Meade, S. Dak. Jan 1898

Fort Meade, S. Dak.

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

Fort Meade, South Dakota. 20 Jan. SD 76, 55-2, v4, 8p. [3593] On maintenance of the fort; located near the Pine Ridge and Rosebud reservations of Sioux Indians; it should be made a permanent post.


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. Jan 1898

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.

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

Mission Indians of California. [3592] Amendments to an act for the relief of said Indians; would include in the several Mission Indian reservations certain lands cultivated by the Indians.


Railroad Passenger Rates Through Indian Territory. Jan 1898

Railroad Passenger Rates Through Indian Territory.

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

Railroad Passenger Rates Through Indian Territory. 10 Jan. SR 418, 55-2, v1, 1p. [3620] Bill to prevent railroads from charging more than 3 cents per mile.


Confirming Certain Cash Entries Of Public Lands. Jan 1898

Confirming Certain Cash Entries Of Public Lands.

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

Confirming Cash Entries of Public Lands. 10 Jan. SR 419, 55-2, v1, 3p. [3620] Action of the Com. on Indian Affairs.