Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior ..., Volume 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1876 |
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acres answer Apache Arapahoes armed Indian police attendance bands blankets Board of Indian boarding-school Bosler bushels cattle chairman charge Cheyenne Cheyenne River agency chiefs Chippewas church circular-letter Comanches committee contract corn costumes and habits cultivate separate tracts day-school Department desire dozen employés F. H. SMITH families farming furnished Government habits of civilized honor houses hundred Indian Affairs Indian agent Indian Commissioners Indian Territory industry influence inspector Kiowas labor Letter miles military force Missouri River moral Nebraska necessity obedient servant officers Omaha pairs 3-point Pawnees permanent homes petition pounds beef pounds flour purchase received Red Cloud agency removal reply reservation respectfully Roman Catholic Roman Catholic Church Santee Sioux Secretary Board Sioux Sioux City soldiers Spotted Tail stationed supplies surrounding white tion tracts of land tribal relations tribe troops United States Indian Washington White Earth White Earth reservation white neighbors York
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Page 13 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 38 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law, or is under an appropriation adequate to its fulfillment. except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 13 - Provided, that any such Indian shall be entitled to his distributive share of all annuities, tribal funds, lands, and other property, the same as though he had maintained his tribal relations...
Page 6 - Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society ; and any eminent depart« See two books entitled, "Binige Originalschriften des Dluniinatenordeas," — " System nud Folgen des ntaminatenordens.
Page 13 - That any Indian born in the United States, who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and who has abandoned, or may hereafter abandon, his tribal relations, shall, on making satisfactory proof of such abandonment, under rules to he prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, he entitled to the benefits of the act entitled "An act to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain...
Page 43 - ... which shall be immediately available, the cost of said entire work to be reimbursed from the proceeds of the sale of the lands within the...
Page 13 - Provided, however, That the title to lands acquired by any Indian by virtue hereof shall not be subject to alienation or incumbrance, either by voluntary conveyance or the judgment, decree, or order of any court, and shall be and remain inalienable for a period of five years from the date of the patent issued therefor...
Page 52 - ... earned the right to call their own. The following in regard to these White Earth Indians is taken from a report made by the assistant secretary of the Board of Indian Commissioners : The progress made in the seven years past gives reason to hope that in a few years more the goal will be reached of self-support, and manly, honest living. No good reason appears why these Indians should much longer need the care of the General Government.
Page 95 - Such is the latest organization of the San Carlos Police Force. The duties of this force are to patrol the Indian camps, to quell disturbances, to arrest offenders, to report any signs of disorder or mutiny, to scour the entire reservation and arrest Indians who are absent from the agency without a pass, and also to arrest whites who trespass contrary to the rules of the reservation.
Page 38 - Commissioner. The Hon. SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D.