Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the InteriorThe Office., 1880 |
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... advance- ment toward civilization has been marked . The efforts of a number of the tribes in cultivating the soil have been attended with a degree of suc- cess that has set at rest the question not only of their ability to learn the ...
... advance- ment toward civilization has been marked . The efforts of a number of the tribes in cultivating the soil have been attended with a degree of suc- cess that has set at rest the question not only of their ability to learn the ...
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... advance- ment toward civilization has been marked . The efforts of a number of the tribes in cultivating the soil have been attended with a degree of suc- cess that has set at rest the question not only of their ability to learn the ...
... advance- ment toward civilization has been marked . The efforts of a number of the tribes in cultivating the soil have been attended with a degree of suc- cess that has set at rest the question not only of their ability to learn the ...
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... advance in the scale of civilization , and rudimentary lessons of this sort are daily taught by the Indian police system , which calls upon one Indian to arrest and pronounce deliberate judgment upon another for offenses , many of which ...
... advance in the scale of civilization , and rudimentary lessons of this sort are daily taught by the Indian police system , which calls upon one Indian to arrest and pronounce deliberate judgment upon another for offenses , many of which ...
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... advance their own civilization , and which would otherwise have to be furnished by the government . About three - fourths of the Sioux at the Yankton Agency have made equal progress in adopting the customs of civilized life . At ...
... advance their own civilization , and which would otherwise have to be furnished by the government . About three - fourths of the Sioux at the Yankton Agency have made equal progress in adopting the customs of civilized life . At ...
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... advance in in- dustry and thrift . They wear citizens ' dress , live in houses , cultivate on the average one and four - fifths acres each , and , at times , require but small issues of rations . Self - support might have been attained ...
... advance in in- dustry and thrift . They wear citizens ' dress , live in houses , cultivate on the average one and four - fifths acres each , and , at times , require but small issues of rations . Self - support might have been attained ...
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Abstract of proposals agency agricultural annual report annuities Arapahoes attendance August band Bannacks bid was accompanied Blackfeet boarding-school boys building bushels camp cattle Cheyenne chiefs Chippewas civilization Comanche COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN Congress contracts awarded corn Creek crops Crow cultivation denote the rates dians employés farm Fenced Fort Hall funds furnished head and nut horses houses hundred improvement inch INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian service-Continued Indian Territory industrial Iron July June Kansas Kickapoos Kiowa labor Lake land large type denote located ment Mescalero miles Nez Percés NOTE.-Figures in large Number of acres Number of Indian Osage Points of delivery potatoes Pottawatomies pounds proposals received Pyramid Lake Quantity awarded Quantity offered Quapaw received and contracts reservation respectfully River Sac and Fox Saint Paul Santee severalty Shoshone Sioux Sioux City supplies tion treaty United States Indian wagon Yakama Yankton York City
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Page 169 - States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 169 - 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...
Page 176 - That all allotments set apart under the provisions of this act shall be selected by the Indians, heads of families selecting for their minor children, and the agents shall select for each orphan child, and in such manner as to embrace the improvements of the Indians making the selection.
Page 168 - Sec. 2145. Except as to crimes, the punishment of which is expressly provided for in this title, the general laws of the United States as to the punishment of crimes committed In any place within the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, except the District of Columbia, shall extend to the Indian country.
Page 174 - That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six, and for former years, and for other purposes, namely : *********** MISCELLANEOUS.
Page 180 - That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, namely: THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.
Page 169 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and Territory in the United States to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property as is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses, and exactions of every kind, and none other, any law, statute, ordinance, regulation or...
Page 179 - That none of said lands, whether mineral or otherwise, shall be liable to entry and settlement under the provisions of the homestead law; but shall be subject to cash entry only in accordance with existing law; and when sold the proceeds of said sale shah1 be first sacredly applied to rent.
Page 119 - SIR: in compliance with your instructions, I have the honor to submit the following report of the...
Page vii - Whereas such acts are in violation of the laws of the United States in such case made and provided, and are done in disregard of the duties and obligations which all persons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States owe thereto, and are condemned by all right-minded and law-abiding citizens: Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S.