Report of the Department of the Interior ... [with Accompanying Documents]., Volume 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 |
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28 Stat acres Act Aug act of Congress agency allotted amount annual report Arapahoes average attendance Blackfeet Blacksmith boarding school boys bushels Carpenter cattle Cherokee Nation Cherokee Outlet Cheyenne Chippewas church citizens civilization clerk COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN condition Congress approved Cook court Creek crops Crow day school Department district Dollars eighteen hundred employees ended June 30 enrollment Executive orders farm farmer feet fiscal Fort Hall freedmen fund girls Government honor to submit improvements INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian schools Indian Territory Industrial teacher Interior irrigation Jacksons Hole July June 30 Kickapoo labor Lake lands Laundress leases located Males ment miles Mission Nez Percé payment physician Pottawatomie pupils purposes Quapaw reservation respectfully River Sac and Fox Seamstress Secretary Sept Shawnees Shoshone Sioux Superintendent supply timber tion Total tribe United States Indian
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Page 275 - Indian to whom such allotment shall have been made, or, in case of his decease, of his heirs according to the laws of the State or Territory where Opinion of tbe Court. such land is located...
Page 57 - But it shall be a sufficient defense to any charge of introducing or attempting to introduce ardent spirits, ale, beer, wine, or intoxicating liquors into the Indian country, that the acts charged were done under authority, in writing, from the War Department, or any officer duly authorized thereunto by the War Department.
Page 452 - An Act for the relief and civilization of the Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota...
Page 67 - ... the right to hunt on the unoccupied lands of the United States so long as game may be found thereon, and so long as peace subsists among the whites and Indians on the borders of the hunting districts.
Page 74 - If bad men among the whites, or among other people subject to the authority of the United States, shall commit any wrong upon the person or property of the Indians, the United States will, upon proof made to the agent and forwarded to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs at Washington City, proceed at once to cause the offender to be arrested and punished according to the laws of the United States, and also re-imburse the injured person for the loss sustained.
Page 448 - When a State contains more than one district, every suit not of a local nature, in the district court thereof, against a single defendant, inhabitant of such State, must be brought in the district where he resides; but if there are two or more defendants, residing in different districts of the State, it may be brought in either district...
Page 441 - ... public lands adjacent to the line of said road, material, earth, stone, and timber necessary for the construction of said railroad; also, ground adjacent to such right of way for station buildings, depots, machine shops, side tracks, turn-outs, and water stations, not to exceed in amount twenty acres for each station, to the extent of one station for each ten miles of its road.
Page 274 - ... every Indian born within the territorial limits of the United States who has voluntarily taken up within said limits, his residence separate and apart from any tribe of Indians therein and has adopted the habits of civilized life...
Page 87 - Indians residing on such reservation, as the case may be, at a special election authorized and called by the Secretary of the Interior under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Page 433 - ... Delawares of the foregoing stipulations, all the members of the tribe, registered as above provided, shall become members of the Cherokee Nation, with the same rights 'and immunities, and the same participation (and no other,) in the national funds, as native Cherokees, save as hereinbefore provided. And the children hereafter born of such Delawares so incorporated into the Cherokee Nation, shall in all respects be regarded as native Cherokees.