Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the InteriorThe Office., 1876 - Indians of North America |
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&c.-Continued Abstract of proposals agency agricultural amount annual report annuity Apaches appropriation Arapahoes article treaty attendance August band Bannacks Blackfeet blacksmith bonds buildings bushels cattle cent Cherokee Cheyenne Chickasaw Chippewas Chiricahua civilization Comanches COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN Congress corn Creek crops Crow Crow agency cultivated employés Executive order expense farming furnished g. s. bottles Government horses houses improvement INDIAN AFFAIRS Indian Agent Indian service Indian Territory industry interest July June Kansas Kaskaskias Kickapoos labor Lake land loan miles missionary months national fund Navajo Nez Percé Number of acres Number of Indians obedient servant Osage agency Osages Pawnee plow Pottawatomies pounds present purchase Quapaw removal reservation respectfully River Sac and Fox Saint Saint Paul Santee Sioux Shawnees Shoshones Sioux Sisseton Spotted Tail subsistence supplies teachers Three installments tion tribe Twenty installments United States Indian Wichita Yakama York
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Page 35 - Indians to see that this stipulation is strictly complied with ; and the United States agrees that for every thirty children between said ages who can be induced or compelled to attend school, a house shall be provided and a teacher competent to teach the elementary branches of an English education shall be furnished, who will reside among said Indians, and faithfully discharge his or her duties as a teacher.
Page 39 - When the head of a family or lodge shall have selected lands and received his certificate as above directed, and the agent shall be satisfied that he intends in good faith to commence cultivating the soil for a living, he shall be entitled to receive seeds and agricultural implements for the first year, not exceeding in value one hundred dollars, and for each succeeding year he shall continue to farm, for a period of three years more, he shall be entitled to receive seeds and implements as aforesaid,...
Page v - It is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization is possible without individual ownership of land. The records of the past and the experience of the present testify that the soil should be made secure to the individual by all the guarantees which law can devise, and that nothing less will induce men to put forth their best exertions. No general law exists which provides that Indians shall select allotments in...
Page 35 - The President may, at any time, order a survey of the reservation, and, when so surveyed, Congress shall provide for protecting the rights of said settlers in their improvements, and may fix the character of the title held by each. The United States may pass such laws on the subject of alienation and descent of property between the Indians and their descendants as may be thought proper.
Page 99 - States, to admit amongst them ; and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employes of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article...
Page 86 - I have the honor to submit my first annual report of the affairs of the Fort Peck Indian agency. Fort Peck, the headquarters of this agency, is located on the north bank of the Missouri River, 375 miles by land above the city of Bismarck, Dak., and 275 miles below Fort Benton, Mont.
Page 35 - ... land book," as herein directed, shall cease to be held in common, but the same may be occupied and held in the exclusive possession of the person selecting it. and of his family, so long as he or they may continue to cultivate it. Any person over eighteen years of age. not being the head of a family, may, in like manner, select and cause to be certified to him or her, for purposes of cultivation, a quantity of land not exceeding eighty acres in extent, and thereupon be entitled to the exclusive...
Page 140 - I have the honor to submit the following annual report for the year ending ilay 31, 1H99.
Page v - Indians shall select allotments in severalty, and it seems to me a matter of great moment that provision should be made not only permitting, but requiring, the head of each Indian family, to accept the allotment of a reasonable amount of land, to be the property of himself and his lawful heirs, in lieu of any interest in any common tribal possession.
Page vi - That the benevolent efforts and purposes of the government have proved so largely fruitless is, in my judgment, due more to its failure to make these people amenable to our laws than to any other cause, or to all other causes combined. I believe it to be the duty of Congress at once to extend over Indian reservations the jurisdiction of United States courts, and to declare that each Indian in the United States shall occupy the same relation to law that a white man does. ... I regard this suggestion...