Enrollement of Robert Fix and Others, Mississippi Choctaw Indians: Hearings...on S. 998...and S. 2268...May 17, June 10, 21, 1937 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 8
Page 5
... considered last year by the Senate Committee on In- dian Affairs , and approved by that committee . I was satisfied at that time that the bill could not get by the House of Representa- tives because all of the Oklahoma Congressmen were ...
... considered last year by the Senate Committee on In- dian Affairs , and approved by that committee . I was satisfied at that time that the bill could not get by the House of Representa- tives because all of the Oklahoma Congressmen were ...
Page 7
... considered at some length . The second bill , relating to the enrolling of certain members of the Fix family , was considered and acted upon by this committee , but the bill did not receive favorable consideration in the House of ...
... considered at some length . The second bill , relating to the enrolling of certain members of the Fix family , was considered and acted upon by this committee , but the bill did not receive favorable consideration in the House of ...
Page 10
... considered , involving the application of 399 peo- ple to be placed on the Choctaw and Chickasaw rolls . We appeared at that hearing and opposed the bill . Senator CHAVEZ . Was that the one in connection with which Mrs. Underwood was ...
... considered , involving the application of 399 peo- ple to be placed on the Choctaw and Chickasaw rolls . We appeared at that hearing and opposed the bill . Senator CHAVEZ . Was that the one in connection with which Mrs. Underwood was ...
Page 15
... considered , then it should be con- sidered by some competent tribunal , where evidence could be pre- sented . I am sure that the committee does not wish to do it , be- cause that would be traveling the same road again . Senator FRAZIER ...
... considered , then it should be con- sidered by some competent tribunal , where evidence could be pre- sented . I am sure that the committee does not wish to do it , be- cause that would be traveling the same road again . Senator FRAZIER ...
Page 23
... considered as closed . You are further advised that the rolls for the Five Civilized Tribes — namely , Cherokee , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Creek , and Seminole Tribes of Indians - were completed and closed by law on March 4 , 1907 , as ...
... considered as closed . You are further advised that the rolls for the Five Civilized Tribes — namely , Cherokee , Choctaw , Chickasaw , Creek , and Seminole Tribes of Indians - were completed and closed by law on March 4 , 1907 , as ...
Common terms and phrases
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
Popular passages
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.