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Contains 15 Results:

Items 1-8, 1820-1838

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 1820-1838

Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a statement of all annuities payable by the United States to Indians or Indian tribes, or under treaties with Indians etc., document no.14, 11 pages, 12/4/1820

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 12/4/1820

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury transmitting a statement of the money expended in each year, since the Declaration of Independence, in holding conferences and making treaties with the Indian tribes, specifying grants and presents, whether in money or goods, annuities paid and now payable, to the Indian tribes, etc., document no.15, 14 pages and 4 tables, 12/5/1820

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 12/5/1820

‘Settlers on Land—Choctaw District—Mississippi.’ William Haile, from the Committee on the Public Lands, to which was referred the resolution of the House of Representatives, of January 3d, directing the Committee to enquire into the expediency of granting the right of preference in the purchase to actual settlers on the public lands in the Choctaw District, State of Mississippi, etc. 20th Congress, 1st Session, document no.102, 5 pages, House of Representatives, 1/28/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 3
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 1/28/1838

Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, in relation to the necessity of additional clerks in the Office of Indian Affairs. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate, document no.101, 6 pages, 1/15/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 4
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 1/15/1838

Report from the Secretary of War, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, transmitting the official report of the action of the 25th December, 1837, with the Seminole Indians. Colonel Zachary Taylor's report and charts of the action between the troops under his command and the Seminole Indians. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate, document no.227, 13 pages, 2/21/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 5
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 2/21/1838

‘Cherokee Indians.’ Memorial of the Cherokee Delegation, submitting the memorial and protest of the Cherokee people to Congress. The memorial was signed by fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty-five members of the Cherokee people. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, House of Representatives, document no.316, 7 pages, 4/9/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 6
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 4/9/1838

‘Cherokee Indians.’ Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a communication addressed by the Secretary of War to the Cherokee Delegation. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, House of Representatives, Executive, document no.376, 4 pages, 5/22/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 5/22/1838

‘Removal of Cherokees.’ Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting the information called for by the resolution of the 23d instant, relative to additional allowance to the Cherokees. 25th Congress, 2nd Session, House of Representatives, War Department, document no.401, 1 page , 5/26/1838

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 8
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 5/26/1838

‘New Indian Territory in Oregon, etc.’ Memorial of the Board of Managers of the American Indian Mission Association. The Board of Managers of the American Indian Mission Association in the City of Louisville and State of Kentucky, respectfully asks leave to present to the Congress of the United States the following representations and requests. The petition calls for removal of the tribes to territory west of the states of Missouri and Arkansas. 29th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, document no.73, 6 pages, 1/13/1846

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 1/13/1846

Message from the President of the United States communicating, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, information in relation to the removal of the Chippewa Indians from the mineral lands of Lake Superior. 29th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, document no.403, 3 pages, 6/24/1846

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 18
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 6/24/1846

The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John A. Bryan. Mr. Atchison. Report, Bryan, appointed Treaty Commissioner with the Wyandot Indians, upon completion of his service billed the Government for $824.00. 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate, document no.125, 2 pages, 4/14/1848

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 19
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 4/14/1848

‘Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.’ Mr. McIlvaine. Report, The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution of the House instructing the committee to “inquire into the propriety of causing the sum allowed for the removal and subsistence, under the Cherokee treaty, to be paid to such Cherokees as were not required under the provisions of those treaties to remove west of the Mississippi.” 30th Congress, 1st Session, #632 House of Representatives, document no.632, 17 pages, 5/18/1848

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 20
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 5/18/1848

‘Indian Territory, West of the Mississippi.’ Mr. McIlvaine. Report, The Committee on Indian Affairs, to whom was referred the resolution of the House instructing the committee “to inquire into the expedience of organizing a territorial government in the Indian country west of the Mississippi, to which the Indians have been removed by the government.” 30th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, document no.736, 14 pages, 6/27/1848

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 21
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 6/27/1848

Report of the Secretary of War communicating a report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in relation to claims against the Cherokees, under the treaty of August 6, 1846. 30th Congress, 2nd Session, Senate, document no.28, 189 pages, 2/12/1849

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: 22
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of government documents, Presidential messages, broadsides, monographs, and other early imprints concerning American Indian treaties, land claims, removal, wars, and appropriations. The bulk of the materials relate to Cherokee, but the Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Wyandot, Chippewa, and other tribes are included. The documents concern lands in the Southeast, Northwest, Midwest, and Southwest United States. The collection was accumulated by James L. Britton, a...
Dates: 2/12/1849