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Indian Affairs In Oregon. Letter From The Acting Commissioner Of Indian Affairs In Answer To A Resolution Of The House Of February 15, In Relation To The Report Of The Indian Superintendent Upon Indian Affairs In Oregon

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

Indian Affairs in Oregon. [1418] Interviews with Klamath Indians; possible success of Pres. Grant's "Quaker policy" towards the Indians; desire of Indians to become like whites.

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

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

Appropriations for the Fort Berthold Agency. [1418] To pay outstanding debts; engagements between agency Indians and the Sioux.

John E. Tappan. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting Accounts Of John E. Tappan For Goods Given To Kiowa Indians, For Delivery Of White Captives Held By Them In 1868

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

Letter on Goods Given to the Kiowas. [1418] By J. Tappan in 1868 for the release of white captives.

S. E. Ward. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Recommending An Appropriation To Pay A Debt Due To S. E. Ward For Goods Furnished Indians At Fort Laramie By Order Of Indian Peace Commission

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

Letter on Money Due S. Ward. [1418] For supplies issued to Sioux at Fort Laramie in 1868 by order of the Indian Peace Commission.

Appropriation For Indian Service. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Recommending An Appropriation To Pay Certain Claims That Have Been Allowed And Partly Settled To Extent Of Funds On Hand

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

Appropriation for the Indian Service. [1418] For the payment of claims against Kiowas, Comanches, and Blackfeet.

Number Of Indians In Various Tribes. Letter From The Acting Commissioner Of Indian Affairs In Answer To The Resolution Of The House Of February 2, 1870, In Relation To The Number Of Indians In Each Of The Various Tribes Named In The Book Of Estimates Furnished Congress

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

Number of Indians in Various Tribes. [1418] List of tribes, populations, and treaties requiring annuity payments.

Appropriations For Sioux Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Recommending An Appropriation To Pay Vouchers Approved By General Harney, On Account Of Indian Service In The Sioux Indian District

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

Appropriations for Sioux Indians. [1417] Indebtedness incurred by Gen. Harney in the Sioux district of Dakota.

Appropriations For Indian Service In Montana. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Recommending An Appropriation To Pay An Outstanding Indebtedness On Account Of The Indian Service In Montana Territory

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

Appropriations for Indian Service in Montana. [1417] For service at the Flathead and Blackfeet agencies.

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 …

Resolutions Of The Legislature Of Kansas In Favor Of The Removal Of All Indians Who Have Not Become Citizens, From The Limits Of That State To Special Reservations, And The Extinguishment Of Their Right Of Possession To All Lands Within That State, That The Same May Be Granted To Aid In The Construction Of Railroads, And In Favor Of A Grant Of Lands To Aid In The Construction Of Railroads In The Indian Territory.

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

Resol. of the Kansas Legis. 16 Feb. SMD 55, 41-2, v1, 2p. [1408] Removal of all Indians who have not become citizens; grant their lands to railroad companies; grant land for a railroad through Indian Territory.

Resolutions Of The Legislature Of Kansas In Favor Of Increased Protection On The Frontier Of That State Against Depredations By The Indians, And Against Any Further Reduction Of The Army.

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

Resol. of the Kansas Legis. 16 Feb. SMD 56, 41-2, v1, 2p. [1408] Ask protection of State's frontier from Indian depredations.

Oregon Volunteers

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

Report on Oregon Volunteers. 15 Feb. SR 37,41-2, v1, 2p. [1409] Protection of emigrant wagon trains in 1854.

Fur Seal Fisheries Of Alaska. Letter From The Secretary Of The Treasury In Answer To A Resolution Of The House, Transmitting A Report Of The Special Agent Of Alaska Upon The Fur Seal Fisheries Of That Territory

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

Fur seal Fisheries of Alaska. [1417] Indians, or "native Aleutians," are allowed to kill seals for subsistence, and to sell their furs.

Annuities Withheld From Indian Tribes. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior In Answer To A Resolution Of The House Of February 3, Relative To Annuities Or Other Payments Withheld From Indian Tribes Under Act Of Congress

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

Annuities Withheld from Indian Tribes. [1417] No annuities are being withheld from Indians during the year ending 30 June 1871.

Claims Of Kansas Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting Copy Of Report Made By Commissioners Appointed Under The Provisions Of The Twelfth Article Of Treaty Of 23d February, 1867, With The Senecas, Mixed Senecas And Shawnees, And Quapaw Tribes Of Indians In Kansas, To Investigate The Claims Of Those Indians

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

Claims of Kansas Indians. [1417] Claims of Senecas, Shawnees, and Quapaws under the treaty of 23 Feb. 1867.

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.

Claims Of Pottawatomie Indians. Letter From The Secretary Of The Interior Transmitting The Report Of The Commissioners Appointed To Examine The Claims Of The Pottawatomie Indians, Provided By The Treaty Of August 7, 1868

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

L-C of Pottawatomie Indians. [1418] Executive of claims under the treaty of 7. Aug. 1868.

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.

Mr. Willey : Report

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

R-P of C. Luth. 2 Feb. SR 22, 41-2, vl, 1p. [1409] Cheyenne depredations of 1868 in Nebraska.

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.

Resolution Of The Legislature Of Kansas In Favor Of The Passage Of A Law To Extinguish The Title Of The Indians To The Black Bob Shawnee Reservation.

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

Resol. of the Kansas Legis. 26 Jan. SMD 30, 41-2, v1, 1p. [1408] Ask extinguishment of Indian title to the Black Bob Shawnee reservation.