A Report to the Secretary of War of the United States, on Indian Affairs: Comprising a Narrative of a Tour Performed in the Summer of 1820 ...Converse, 1822 - 496 pages Series of reports and correspondence. Some letters signed by J.C. Calhoun. Extensive statistics on Indian tribes in 1820. |
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... lands given them principally by the Oneidas and Senecas . Of the present state of these Indians , in all the particulars desired by the Government , a full account will be found in the Appendix . * There is a division among them on the ...
... lands given them principally by the Oneidas and Senecas . Of the present state of these Indians , in all the particulars desired by the Government , a full account will be found in the Appendix . * There is a division among them on the ...
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... lands and are either still lingering on them , unwilling to take a last look over the fertile fields , which they once called their own , and at the mounds which contain the bones of many generations of their ances- tors ; or they are ...
... lands and are either still lingering on them , unwilling to take a last look over the fertile fields , which they once called their own , and at the mounds which contain the bones of many generations of their ances- tors ; or they are ...
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... lands . " " I have travel- led , " says Mr. Crooks , " several hundreds of miles along the Ky - eye - nam river , without meeting with any thing larger than the common willow . The Indians in this desert waste subsist on fish and roots ...
... lands . " " I have travel- led , " says Mr. Crooks , " several hundreds of miles along the Ky - eye - nam river , without meeting with any thing larger than the common willow . The Indians in this desert waste subsist on fish and roots ...
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... lands have been obtained from them by the Government ; or by the in- feriority in quality , and high prices of the goods , which have been offered them in barter , at the Government factories , or delivered to them in payment of their ...
... lands have been obtained from them by the Government ; or by the in- feriority in quality , and high prices of the goods , which have been offered them in barter , at the Government factories , or delivered to them in payment of their ...
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... land , belonging to them in North America , for the purpose of commencing an agricultural settlement . As soon as the ... lands upon the Red River are very fertile , being composed of a deep alluvial soil . There are no trees , or stumps ...
... land , belonging to them in North America , for the purpose of commencing an agricultural settlement . As soon as the ... lands upon the Red River are very fertile , being composed of a deep alluvial soil . There are no trees , or stumps ...
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acres annually appear Appendix Arkansaw Beaver Indians Brainerd Buffalo Capt Cherokee Nation Chiefs Chippawas Choctaws Christian civilization Columbia river commenced corn Council Council Bluffs Creek cultivate Delawares dians east Education Family establishment Father fifty five Fox river friends give Gospel Government Green Bay head hundred miles hunting improvement Indian tribes inhabit instruction Iron river Island JEDIDIAH MORSE labor Lake Superior lands language letter live Mackinaw manner Menominees ment mission Missionary Mississippi Missouri mouth natives New-York object Oneidas Osages Ottawas Pawnee persons prairie present principal purchase received Red River reside respectable Rocky Mountains Sandy Lake Sauks scholars Secretary settlement side Six Nations skins Society soil souls Spirit Stockbridge Stockbridge Indians Territory things thousand tion tract trade treaty United village warriors White river Winebagoes women Wyandots