Report of the Special Commission Appointed to Investigate the Affairs of the Red Cloud Indian Agency, July, 1875: Together with the Testimony and Accompanying DocumentsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1875 - 852 pages |
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Agent Saville amount annuity-goods Arapahoes asked ATHERTON average bales barrels beef beeves Bishop Hare blankets Board of Indian Bosler called camp CHAIRMAN charge Cheyenne Cheyenne County coffee commission Commissioner of Indian Commissioner Smith contract contractor corral count cows delivered delivery employés fact FAULKNER flour Fort Laramie fraud freight furnished GEORGE W give Government HARRIS head of cattle herd herder Indian Affairs Indian agent Indian Commissioners inspected inspector Interior Department issued letter matter McCann miles Missouri River never November number of Indians O. C. Marsh Omaha paid party persons Platte pork present Professor Marsh purchased question rations receipt received recollect Red Cloud agency reference remember River sacks sample scalawag Secretary shipped Sioux Sitting Bull Slavens Spotted Tail agency stampeded statement steers sugar supplies suppose testimony Texas cattle tobacco told transportation wagons Washington weighed winter yearlings
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Page 694 - ... set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Indians herein named, and for such other friendly tribes or individual Indians as from time to time they may be willing, with the consent of the United States, to admit amongst them...
Page 694 - 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 employees 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 638 - Indian council, or any band or group of Indians under any law requiring the approval of the Secretary of the Interior or the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of contracts or agreements relating...
Page 694 - The Indians herein named agree that when the agency house and other buildings shall be constructed on the reservation named, they will regard said reservation their permanent home, and they will make no permanent settlement elsewhere; but they shall have the right, subject to the conditions and modifications of this treaty, to hunt, as stipulated in Article XI hereof.
Page 720 - States, to be tried and punished according to its laws; and in case they wilfully refuse so to do, the person injured shall be reimbursed for his loss from the annuities or other moneys due or to become due to them under this or other treaties made with the United States. And the President, on advising with the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, shall prescribe such rules and regulations for ascertaining damages under the provisions of this article as in his judgment may be proper. But no one sustaining...
Page 777 - Provided always, and these presents are upon this express condition, that if the said party of the first part, their heirs, executors, or administrators, shall...
Page 694 - States agrees that the following district of country, to wit, viz: commencing on the east bank of the Missouri River where the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude crosses the same, thence along low-water mark down said east bank to a point opposite where the northern line of the State of Nebraska strikes the river, thence west across said river, and along the northern line of Nebraska to the one hundred and fourth degree of longitude west from Greenwich, thence north on said meridian to a point...
Page 794 - In consideration of the covenants and payments hereinafter mentioned, to be made and performed by the said
Page 795 - Work covered by said bid, then this obligation shall be null and void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
Page 771 - In consideration of the faithful performance of the stipulations of this agreement on the part of the party of the second part, the party of the first part agrees to pay...