Enrollement of Robert Fix and Others, Mississippi Choctaw Indians: Hearings...on S. 998...and S. 2268...May 17, June 10, 21, 1937 |
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... James Standley , who received this property in Mississippi . Anyhow , this is in the record here put out by the Interior Department . Under the heading " Names of witnesses " there are the following names : Nicholas Cochanauer and Hiram ...
... James Standley , who received this property in Mississippi . Anyhow , this is in the record here put out by the Interior Department . Under the heading " Names of witnesses " there are the following names : Nicholas Cochanauer and Hiram ...
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... James Standley . He is a white man ; he is not an Indian at all , but he is step - father to the Patten children . Here is this record right here . Senator CHAVEZ . What is that ? Mr. Fix . That is this fellow's record - P . G. Patten's ...
... James Standley . He is a white man ; he is not an Indian at all , but he is step - father to the Patten children . Here is this record right here . Senator CHAVEZ . What is that ? Mr. Fix . That is this fellow's record - P . G. Patten's ...
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... James Standley . The patent has never been delivered for the reason that we have no information as to whom to deliver it to . The original appears to have been approved June 3 , 1836 , a hundred years ago . There are no Indians living ...
... James Standley . The patent has never been delivered for the reason that we have no information as to whom to deliver it to . The original appears to have been approved June 3 , 1836 , a hundred years ago . There are no Indians living ...
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... James Standley , covering sec- tion 25 , township 17 north , range 1 east , Mississippi . If you have information as to the present occupants of this tract ; the title under which they claim , and the use to which the land is being put ...
... James Standley , covering sec- tion 25 , township 17 north , range 1 east , Mississippi . If you have information as to the present occupants of this tract ; the title under which they claim , and the use to which the land is being put ...
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... James Standley ( your file 1601129 " K " HDB ) . This is to advise you that further search of our records disclosed that this reserve was approved June 3 , 1836 , by President Andrew Jackson upon recom- mendation made by the Acting ...
... James Standley ( your file 1601129 " K " HDB ) . This is to advise you that further search of our records disclosed that this reserve was approved June 3 , 1836 , by President Andrew Jackson upon recom- mendation made by the Acting ...
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34 Stat act of Congress ancestors application for identification approved article XIV attorney August 13 CHAIRMAN Chickasaw Nations Choc Choctaw and Chickasaw Choctaw Nation Choctaw Tribe citizen citizenship court citizenship rolls claim claimants Clara Fix Nichols Commissioner of Indian COMMITTEE ON INDIAN CORNISH Dancing Rabbit Creek Dawes Commission day in court DEAR Department Elizabeth Fix ELMER THOMAS Five Civilized Tribes Fix and Elizabeth Fultz Gertrude Fix Dalton Government Governor Johnson hearing identified Indian Affairs Indian blood Indian Territory James Standley Jesse Fix Jessie JOHN COLLIER June 28 Land Office letter March Missis Mississippi Choctaw Indians Mississippi River NATION OF INDIANS Nation of Oklahoma Okla Oklahoma Choctaw patent to land persons Peter Picayune Philip Fix POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY receive land removed to Oklahoma reopening reserve Robert Fix Seminole Tribes Senator CHAVEZ Senator FRAZIER September 27 sippi Choctaws statement Superintendent treaty of 1830 treaty of September tribal rolls Washington
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Page 28 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 32 - The United States under a grant specially to be made by the President of the US shall cause to be conveyed to the Choctaw Nation a tract of country west of the Mississippi River, in fee simple to them and their descendants, to inure to them while they shall exist as a nation and live on it...
Page 3 - That no part of the amount appropriated in this Act in excess of 10 per centum thereof shall be paid or delivered to or received by any agent or agents, attorney or attorneys, on account of services rendered in connection with said claim.
Page 4 - Commission, but this direction or provision shall be deemed to be only a rule of evidence and shall not be invoked by or operate to the advantage of any applicant who is not a Mississippi Choctaw of the full blood, or who is not the descendant of a Mississippi Choctaw who received a patent to land...
Page 32 - In consideration of the provisions contained in the several articles of this Treaty, the Choctaw nation of Indians consent and hereby cede to the United States, the entire country they own and possess, east of the Mississippi River ; and they agree to remove beyond the Mississippi River...
Page 32 - President solemnly to assure the tribe or nation with which the exchange is made, that the United States will forever secure and guarantee to them, and their heirs or successors, the country so exchanged with them; and if they prefer it, that the United States will cause a patent or grant to be made and executed to them for the same: Provided always, That such lands shall revert to the United States, if the Indians become extinct, or abandon the same.
Page 15 - We are continuing to do it, because our people do not think it is right, our attorneys do not think it is right, and I do not think it is right.
Page 2 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Vnited States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of, each House concurring therein), That the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 31 - Provided, that the rolls of the tribes affected by this act shall be fully completed on or before the fourth day of March, nineteen hundred and seven, and the Secretary of the Interior shall have no jurisdiction to approve the enrollment of any person after said date...
Page 32 - States, to promote the civilization of the Choctaw Indians, by the establishment of schools amongst them; and to perpetuate them as a nation, by exchanging, for a small part of their land here, a country beyond the Mississippi River, where all, who live by hunting and will not work, may be collected and settled together.