Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the InteriorThe Office., 1880 |
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... person and property , of the maintenance of social order by law administered by the community instead of revenge obtained by the individual , when once learned , mark an important advance in the scale of civilization , and rudimentary ...
... person and property , of the maintenance of social order by law administered by the community instead of revenge obtained by the individual , when once learned , mark an important advance in the scale of civilization , and rudimentary ...
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... person and property of another are remitted to tribal laws or customs for punishment . It is time that this relic of barbarism should cease . The Indian should be taught to know and respect the same law which governs the white man , and ...
... person and property of another are remitted to tribal laws or customs for punishment . It is time that this relic of barbarism should cease . The Indian should be taught to know and respect the same law which governs the white man , and ...
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... The passage of this bill would enable the department to locate the whole of the Chippewas of Minnesota and Dakota , numbering about 12,000 persons , upon the White IND - II REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS . XVII.
... The passage of this bill would enable the department to locate the whole of the Chippewas of Minnesota and Dakota , numbering about 12,000 persons , upon the White IND - II REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS . XVII.
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United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dakota , numbering about 12,000 persons , upon the White Earth Reser- vation , build them comfortable houses , supply them with cattle and agricultural implements , break up land sufficient to ...
United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Dakota , numbering about 12,000 persons , upon the White Earth Reser- vation , build them comfortable houses , supply them with cattle and agricultural implements , break up land sufficient to ...
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... persons were again organizing at various places in Southern Kansas for the purpose of entering the Indian Territory , and making settlements on lands therein which had been ceded to the government for Indian purposes . To encourage this ...
... persons were again organizing at various places in Southern Kansas for the purpose of entering the Indian Territory , and making settlements on lands therein which had been ceded to the government for Indian purposes . To encourage this ...
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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.