Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the InteriorThe Office., 1880 |
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Page ix
... POLICE . The practicability of employing an Indian police to maintain order upon an Indian reservation is no longer a matter of question . In less than three years the system has been put in operation at 40 agencies , and the total ...
... POLICE . The practicability of employing an Indian police to maintain order upon an Indian reservation is no longer a matter of question . In less than three years the system has been put in operation at 40 agencies , and the total ...
Page x
... police themselves , are among the incidental benefits to the service arising from the police system . It brings into an agency a new element — a party which grasps the idea of the supremacy of law , and which by precept and example ...
... police themselves , are among the incidental benefits to the service arising from the police system . It brings into an agency a new element — a party which grasps the idea of the supremacy of law , and which by precept and example ...
Page xi
... police , even with imperfect organization and inadequate pay , should be all the argument necessary to insure such legislation as will enable the office to establish it at every agency on a permanent basis . The practical workings of ...
... police , even with imperfect organization and inadequate pay , should be all the argument necessary to insure such legislation as will enable the office to establish it at every agency on a permanent basis . The practical workings of ...
Page xxi
... police force , which , for six years , has rendered remarkably efficient service , is the work which has been accomplished in the case of the San Carlos Apaches . That they are inclined to agriculture is shown by the perse- vering ...
... police force , which , for six years , has rendered remarkably efficient service , is the work which has been accomplished in the case of the San Carlos Apaches . That they are inclined to agriculture is shown by the perse- vering ...
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... police , and gives striking proof of the loyalty of the Spotted Tail Sioux , and of the sincerity with which they are undertaking to conform to the usages of civilized society . A small party of Brulé Sioux , headed by Turning Bear ( a ...
... police , and gives striking proof of the loyalty of the Spotted Tail Sioux , and of the sincerity with which they are undertaking to conform to the usages of civilized society . A small party of Brulé Sioux , headed by Turning Bear ( a ...
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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.