Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs1877 |
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acres agricultural amount annual report annuity Apache appropriation Arapahoes attendance August band boarding-school bushels camp cattle cent Cherokee Cheyenne chiefs Chippewas civilization COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN condition corn Creek crops cultivated Dakota Department dollars east eighteen hundred employés Executive order expense farming funds furnished Government habits hereby houses improvements INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian reservation Indian Territory interest Interior July June Kamiah Kansas Kickapoos labor Lake land Lapwai living located March miles mission missionary Missouri Missouri River Nez Percé number of Indians obedient servant Osages past Poncas portion Pottawatomies present purchase Quapaw quarter range received removal respectfully River Sac and Fox Santee Sioux season Secretary Senecas settlers Shoshones Sioux Spotted Tail subsistence supplies teachers thence tion township treaty Twenty installments United States Indian Valley Wallowa Valley Washington Territory Wolf Point Yakama Yankton
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Page 230 - An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, and for other purposes," approved August 15, 1876, by and between George W.
Page 219 - That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior that any allottee...
Page 224 - ... that he is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such...
Page 229 - President. (c) The said court shall have, in addition to the ordinary jurisdiction of district courts of the United States, jurisdiction of all cases cognizable in a circuit court of the United States, and shall proceed therein in the same manner as a circuit court...
Page 229 - Treasurer shall execute duplicate receipts for money thus deposited, and deliver one to the association and the other to the Comptroller of the Currency, stating the amount received by him, and the purpose for which it has been received; and the money shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States, and placed to the credit of such association upon redemption account.
Page 195 - And the said tribes and bands agree to remove to and settle upon the same within one year after the ratification of this treaty, or sooner if the means are furnished them. In the mean time, it shall be lawful for them to reside upon any ground not in the actual claim and occupation of citizens of the United States, and upon any ground claimed or occupied, if with the permission of the owner or claimant.
Page 183 - Chinese assistants; but from the best information I have been able to obtain, I am led to the conclusion that...
Page 209 - The United States hereby agrees to furnish annually to the Indians the physician, teachers, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmiths as herein contemplated, and that such appropriations shall be made from time to time, on the estimates of the Secretary of the Interior, as will be sufficient to employ such persons.
Page 225 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department...
Page 233 - Peterson for damages sustained by him by reason of depredations and injuries by certain bands of Sioux Indians, in Minnesota, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to pay to said Hans C. Peterson the sum of two thousand two hundred and...