Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]., 2. osaU.S. Government Printing Office, 1899 |
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Abstract of proposals acres advertisement of March Agency allotment of lands allottees application appraised Ariz assorted sizes awarded in Chicago Board of Indian bottles cattle cent Cherokee Nation Chickasaw nations Choctaw and Chickasaw Choctaw Nation citizens citizenship claim claimants commission contracts awarded Creek Nation Dawes Commission Delivered eighteen hundred enrolled entitled etc.—Continued Five Civilized Tribes freedmen furnishing supplies Government HARDWARE-Continued Hubbard inch Indian Agent Indian Commissioners Indian Territory Interior iron June jurisdiction large type denote laws leases Louis Malachi Watts March 30 marriage ment Minn Mississippi Muscogee or Creek Muskogee Nebr NOTE.-Figures in large November Number Okla patent persons Points of delivery pounds proposals received Quantity awarded received and contracts reservation residing rolls San Francisco School Secretary Seminole Tahlequah thereof tion town treaty tribal type denote rates United States court United States Indian York
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Page 287 - Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too...
Page 225 - Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State or Territory where such land is located...
Page 151 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal ; and punishes such action.
Page 168 - The power of the General Government over these remnants of a race once powerful, now weak and diminished in numbers, is necessary to their protection, as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell.
Page 167 - They and their country are considered by foreign nations, as well as by ourselves, as being so completely under the sovereignty and dominion of the United States, that any attempt to acquire their lands, or to form a political connection with them would be considered by all as an invasion of our territory and an act of hostility.
Page 286 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core ; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel ; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 23 - Indians, under contract approved by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of the Interior...
Page 167 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty; but no obligation of any treaty lawfully made and ratified with any such Indian nation or tribe prior to March third, eighteen hundred and seventyone, shall be hereby invalidated or impaired.
Page 53 - An Act for the Protection of the People of the Indian Territory, and for Other Purposes
Page 73 - Choctaw head of a family being desirous to remain and become a citizen of the states shall be permitted to do so, by signifying his intention to the Agent within six months from the ratification of this treaty, and he or she shall thereupon be entitled to a reservation of one section of six hundred and forty acres of land, to be bounded by sectional lines of survey ; in like manner shall be entitled to...